Is there a downside here? What if AI can’t answer questions related to Brazil?
https://pogowasright.org/brazil-orders-meta-to-stop-training-its-ai-on-brazilian-personal-data/
Brazil orders Meta to stop training its AI on Brazilian personal data
The Human Rights Watch article mentioned in the article on photos of Australian children has also had an impact in Brazil, where the government has now blocked Meta from training AI on Brazilian personal data. The Paypers reports:
Data protection authority in Brazil (ANPD) has blocked Meta from training its AI models on Brazilian personal data, citing the risks of serious damage and difficulty to users.
The decision follows an update to Meta’s privacy policy in which the social media granted itself permission to use public Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram data from Brazil including posts, images, and captions for AI training.
After a report by Human Rights Watch revealed that LAION-5B, a large image-caption datasets used for training AI models, includes personal, identifiable photos of children in Brazil, exposing them to the risk of deepfakes and other forms of exploitation.
Read more at The Paypers.
Are we all doomed?
https://www.bespacific.com/future-of-professionals-report/
Future of Professionals Report
Thomson Reuters – Future of Professionals Report. AI-powered technology & the forces shaping professional work. July 2024. “Key findings – First, the productivity benefits we have been promised are now becoming more apparent. As AI adoption has become widespread, professionals can more tangibly tell us about how they will use this transformative technology and the greater efficiency and value it will provide. The most common use cases for AI-powered technology thus far include drafting documents, summarizing information, and performing basic research. Second, there’s a tremendous sense of excitement about the value that new AI-powered technology can bring to the day-to-day lives of the professionals we surveyed. While more than half of professionals said they’re most excited about the benefits that new AI-powered technologies can bring in terms of time-savings, nearly 40% said the new value that will be brought is what excites them the most. This report highlights how AI could free up that precious commodity of time.
If I destroy my old hard drive after updating my computer could I be guilty of obstruction if a some future time law enforcement wanted to look at my data?
Breaking a cell phone to avoid its search and seizure justified obstruction enhancement under federal sentencing guidelines
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t? Seen at FourthAmendment.com:
Defendant attempted to thwart a search of cell phones in his car tried to break one such that it had to be forensically reviewed to get information off of it. He wasn’t under arrest. Still, his actions qualified for a 2 level obstruction enhancement under USSG § 3C1.1. United States v. Manning, 2024 U.S. App. LEXIS 16411 (8th Cir. July 5, 2024).
Other cases of enhancement for obstruction can be found on SentencingCases.com. Another one from the Eighth Circuit held that falsely denying that the person had other devices was deemed to justify a sentencing enhancement. U.S. v. Davenport, __ F.3d __ (8th Cir. Dec. 14, 2018) No. 17-3496.
Technology can not be suppressed forever. If not Microsoft, someone else.
AI speech generator 'reaches human parity' — but it's too dangerous to release, scientists say
… Microsoft researchers said VALL-E 2 was capable of generating "accurate, natural speech in the exact voice of the original speaker, comparable to human performance," in a paper that appeared June 17 on the pre-print server arXiv. In other words, the new AI voice generator is convincing enough to be mistaken for a real person — at least, according to its creators.
Chatbots of historic writers? Will students take the time for a conversation? (I wonder what an hallucinating Shakespeare would say…)
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/07/a-modern-approach-to-teaching-classics/
A modern approach to teaching classics
Martin Puchner is using chatbots to bring to life Socrates, Shakespeare, and Thoreau
Tools & Techniques. (I use Feedly)
https://www.makeuseof.com/what-are-best-news-aggregators/
I Tried These 7 News Aggregators, and This Is My Favorite
We live in a time when news flows from multiple sources, including traditional news outlets, blogs, and social media platforms, to name a few. That's why, over the last few years, I've moved away from getting my daily dose of current events and updates from a single news outlet to using news aggregators.
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