Friday, January 06, 2023

Imagine an assignment to create disinformation that the disinformation detectors can’t detect.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/05/new-jersey-is-the-first-state-to-mandate-k-12-students-learn-information-literacy-00076352

New Jersey becomes first state to mandate K-12 students learn information literacy

… Gov. Phil Murphy on Wednesday signed legislation, NJ S.B. 588 (22R)/NJ A.B. 4169 (22R), that will make New Jersey the first state to require that K-12 students learn about how information is produced and spread on the internet, critical thinking skills, the difference between facts and opinions and the ethics of creating and sharing information both online and in print.





How red must the flag be?

https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/06/jp_morgan_lawsuit_essilor/

JP Morgan must face suit from Ray-Ban maker after crooks drained $272m from accounts

A New York federal judge told JP Morgan Chase Bank this week that he would not toss a lawsuit accusing the bank of ignoring red flags when cybercrooks stole $272 million from the New York account of the company that makes Ray-Bans in 2019.

In the original complaint [PDF], the sunglasses maker said crooks made a total of 243 fraudulent payments, altogether pulling out a cool $272.151 million from EMTC's New York account with JP Morgan. The money was deposited into various straw man accounts and shell entities throughout the world, the complaint added.

The filing also outlined a situation that most non-JP-Morgan-account-having readers will be unfamiliar with: Essilor claimed that "from mid-September 2019 until mid-December 2019, EMTC repeatedly exceeded its daily overdraft limit, but Chase didn't contact EMTC or Essilor." Daily transfers from the NY account were supposed to be capped at $10 million, but sometimes exceeded this "by more than $20 million," the complaint added.





A question to be debated?

https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/5/23540291/chatgpt-ai-writing-tool-banned-writing-academic-icml-paper

Top AI conference bans use of ChatGPT and AI language tools to write academic papers

AI tools can be used to ‘edit’ and ‘polish’ authors’ work, say the conference organizers, but text ‘produced entirely’ by AI is not allowed. This raises the question: where do you draw the line between editing and writing?



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