I wonder what else it does?
White House is ordering agencies to place its new app on all employees’ government phones
Government Executive: “The White House recently unveiled a new app to give the public “unfiltered” access to “key priorities,” “historic moments” and “policy breakthroughs.” Now, it’s directing agencies to help install it on the government phones of federal employees. The Trump administration launched the app, which promises to “[keep] you connected to President Donald J. Trump and his administration like never before,” in March. The push to install the app on the devices of millions of government employees drew surprise from current and former federal officials, who called the move highly unusual and even dangerous. In at least one agency, the automatic downloads will start next week in a move directed by the White House itself, according to internal communications obtained by Government Executive. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Earlier this week, agency chief information officers got orders from the federal CIO, Greg Barbaccia, to help the White House understand the mechanics of installing the app across all government-furnished mobile phones in the executive branch, according to an internal email obtained by Government Executive. “The White House App gives all Americans direct access to White House live streams, breaking news alerts, new policy initiatives, social media posts, and more,” said Olivia Wales, a White House spokesperson. “Government devices typically include pre-installed apps that provide value to government employees’ day-to-day work.”
The move is “dangerous,” Sonny Hashmi, a former longtime government IT executive, told Government Executive. Cybersecurity researchers warned about vulnerabilities in the app soon after it debuted, like how it shares the IP addresses, time zones and other data of users with third-party services. The app also raised initial concerns about its potential GPS tracking capability, but the White House has since removed that functionality…”
A Luddite by any other name…
https://www.wired.com/story/us-law-enforcement-warns-of-anti-tech-extremism/
US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows
As Americans stew over the looming risk of job-stealing AI and data centers in their back yards, the feds are raising the alarm about a new category of threat, documents obtained by WIRED show.
Tools & Techniques.
https://www.makeuseof.com/wikipedia-best-ai-writing-detection-guide/
Wikipedia may have built the best AI writing detection guide
… Wikipedia's Signs of AI Writing page started as an internal resource for volunteer editors. Since 2023, a group called WikiProject AI Cleanup has been reviewing new submissions for undisclosed AI-generated content. After combing through thousands of flagged articles, they cataloged the patterns they kept seeing in Wikipedia drafts and edits. The result is what Wikipedia says, that it's what the editors have observed, and it's more "signs" than "rules."
The page is worth a bookmark and a deep read. Instead of depending on AI writing detectors, it will help you spot-check writing behaviors. Those are the telltale giveaways of AI writing. As we all know, LLMs are just machines, and they are built on statistical probability, not on real storytelling skills.
As predicted, increasing volumes of AI generated content is poisoning the data LLMs feed on.
AI hallucinations are infiltrating expert work—and entering the permanent body of knowledge
… In a study published earlier this month in The Lancet, Topaz and his colleagues audited nearly 2.5 million biomedical papers and 97 million citations indexed on PubMed Central, the central repository used by clinicians and researchers worldwide. They found more than 4,000 fabricated references buried across nearly 3,000 papers. Not all the references were AI-generated, though Topaz said the steady rise in fake sourcing went “vertical” in 2024, shortly after AI tools in research entered more widespread use.
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