If you think you might or if you think you never have…
https://lifehacker.com/how-to-tell-if-you-re-chatting-with-a-bot-1848733021
How to Tell if You’re Chatting with a Bot
… From chatbots to Tinder bots (yes, really ), bots are pretending to be human and having conversations with us—often without identifying themselves.
Luckily, conversational AI hasn’t yet reached perfection, and it’s possible to detect a bot—though that may change soon enough as technology advances. For the time being, if you want to know if you’re dealing with a bot, there are a few strategies that should reveal the truth.
Somewhere in there may be a crook, if we assume all crooks own cell phones and take them with them when committing crimes.
https://www.pogowasright.org/ma-cell-tower-dumps-require-search-warrant-based-on-probable-cause/
MA: Cell “tower dumps” require search warrant based on probable cause
John Wesley Hall writes:
Cell “tower dump” of all numbers connected to it requires a search warrant issued on probable cause. Here it was lacking. Commonwealth v. Perry, 2022 Mass. LEXIS 151 (Apr. 1, 2022):
As law enforcement capabilities continue to develop in the wake of advancing technology, so too must our constitutional jurisprudence. To this end, we must grapple with the constitutional implications of “tower dumps,” a relatively novel law enforcement tool that provides investigators with the cell site location information (CSLI) for all devices that connected to specific cell towers during a particular time frame.
Read more from the opinion at FourthAmendment.com.
This was obvious from the beginning.
Face scanner Clearview AI aims to branch out beyond police
A controversial face recognition company that’s built a massive photographic dossier of the world’s people for use by police, national governments and — most recently — the Ukrainian military is now planning to offer its technology to banks and other private businesses.
Clearview AI co-founder and CEO Hoan Ton-That disclosed the plans Friday to The Associated Press in order to clarify a recent federal court filing that suggested the company was up for sale.
“We don’t have any plans to sell the company,” he said. Instead, he said the New York startup is looking to launch a new business venture to compete with the likes of Amazon and Microsoft in verifying people’s identity using facial recognition.
The new “consent-based” product would use Clearview’s algorithms to verify a person’s face, but would not involve its ever-growing trove of some 20 billion images, which Ton-That said is reserved for law enforcement use. Such ID checks that can be used to validate bank transactions or for other commercial purposes are the “least controversial use case” of facial recognition, he said.
Programmed in bias. Implications for facial recognition?
UT Austin researchers tackle AI that produced ‘White Obama’ image
… Researchers with the lab’s Institute for Foundations of Machine Learning (IFML) have been working to improve the algorithm that in 2020 produced an internet-famous image of former President Barack Obama, dubbed “White Obama.”
AI that was meant to enhance a pixelated, low-resolution photo of the 44th president instead transformed him into a white man.
… They dug into the initial data used to train the algorithm (made up of mostly white celebrities) but found that wasn’t the issue. The issue was the way the algorithm was built.
“The obsession with getting the right answer, it tends to amplify even a small bias in the data set,” Dimakis told KXAN.
Should we panic now? If I have a messaging App, am I required to program interoperability for my competitors? Must I become interoperable with ALL my competitors or can I pick and choose?
EU Digital Markets Act Is GDPR-like in Scope, Focuses on Big Tech “Gatekeeper” Platforms and Messaging Interoperability
… The Digital Markets Act focuses on the biggest of the social media and e-commerce companies, and its requirements would force message interoperability among other terms that Facebook and similar services are unlikely to be happy about.
… The big changes that the Digital Markets Act mandates would be backed up by maximum fines that are substantially larger than those allowed by the GDPR. The current GDPR maximum fine is 4% of a company’s global turnover, and no fine yet issued has even come close to that amount. The Digital Markets Act allows for penalties of up to 20% of annual turnover for repeat offenses committed by the Big Tech platforms it applies to.
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