A surveillance vacuum? What could other appliances reveal?
https://www.pogowasright.org/roomba-testers-feel-misled-after-intimate-images-ended-up-on-facebook/
Roomba testers feel misled after intimate images ended up on Facebook
Eileen Guo reports:
When Greg unboxed a new Roomba robot vacuum cleaner in December 2019, he thought he knew what he was getting into.
[…]
But what Greg didn’t know—and does not believe he consented to—was that iRobot would share test users’ data in a sprawling, global data supply chain, where everything (and every person) captured by the devices’ front-facing cameras could be seen, and perhaps annotated, by low-paid contractors outside the United States who could screenshot and share images at their will.
Read more at MIT Technology Review.
Why we need AI lawyers!
This lawsuit against Microsoft could change the future of AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) is suddenly the darling of the tech world, thanks to ChatGPT, an AI chatbot which can do things such as carry on conversations and write essays and articles with what some people believe is human-like skill. In its first five days, more than a million people signed up to try it. The New York Times hails its “brilliance and weirdness” and says it inspires both awe and fear.
For all the glitz and hype surrounding ChatGPT, what it’s doing now are essentially stunts — a way to get as much attention as possible. The future of AI isn’t in writing articles about Beyonce in the style of Charles Dickens, or any of the other oddball things people use ChatGPT for. Instead, AI will be primarily a business tool, reaping billions of dollars for companies that use it for tasks like improving Internet searches, writing software code, discovering and fixing inefficiencies in a company’s business, and extracting useful, actionable information from massive amounts of data.
But there's a dirty little secret at the core of AI — intellectual property theft. To do its work, AI needs to constantly ingest data, lots of it. Think of it as the monster plant Audrey II in Little Shop of Horrors, constantly crying out “Feed me!” Detractors say AI is violating intellectual property laws by hoovering up information without getting the rights to it, and that things will only get worse from here.
An intellectual property lawsuit against Microsoft may determine the future of AI. It charges that Microsoft, the Microsoft code repository GitHub, and OpenAI, the parent of ChatGPT, have illegally used code created by others in order to build and train the Copilot service that uses AI to write software. (Microsoft has invested $1 billion in OpenAI.)
The future of AI may well hinge on the suit’s outcome.
“We don’t sell ads, Senator.”
https://www.makeuseof.com/how-does-mastodon-make-money/
How Does Mastodon Make Money?
Mastodon, the open-source social media platform that is quickly becoming a major player in the world of online communication, may have you wondering how it’s actually making money to keep the lights on and the servers running. After all, it’s free to use and there aren’t any ads, fees, or VC funding either like with other popular platforms.
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