ICE agents in Minnesota have detained at least four children from the same school district.
Earlier this month, a 10-year-old 4th-grader was detained by ICE with her mother and sent to a Texas detention center.
The 4th-grader's father was left behind.
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I spoke to the leader of a doxing-for-hire group who showed me how it took just minutes for them to get sensitive personal data from Big Tech companies—with virtually no pushback
www.wired.com/story/doxers...
OpenAI has already done more than any other startup to shake the dominance of Big Tech. It's still probably not enough
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New: AI chatbots can change voters' minds, according to a pair of in-depth studies published just now in Science and Nature.
How they do it is interesting — and concerning. Gift link: wapo.st/49RSstP
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OpenAI says the chats released by Raine's family don't paint a full picture, so they are providing more of his conversations with the bot to the court. Those are not public, they were filed under seal
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
OpenAI also says Raine told ChatGPT that he reached out to trusted people in his life for help but was ignored. (this is a different take on chats released as part of the family's lawsuit)
OpenAI today said that though Raine’s death is tragic, they’re not liable because he said he had suicidal ideation for years before using ChatGPT, and he also sought info on suicide from other online resources
Raine’s family alleges that ChatGPT coached Adam to take his own life and encouraged him to hide his self-harm and plans from his family. BG: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
NEW - OpenAI has responded to the lawsuit from the family of Adam Raine, the teen who committed suicide after months of talking to ChatGPT.
From The Washington Post:
The concentration of wealth among the richest Americans is unlike anything in history — and so is billionaires’ influence in politics.
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Here’s this Better Offline. I’m joined by @gerritd.bsky.social of The Washington Post to discuss what an analysis of 47,000 ChatGPT conversations can tell us about how people use the service - and how eager it is to fuel any conversation.
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Eight warships, a nuclear-powered attack submarine, a floating base for Special Operations and an aircraft carrier on the way
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“It is unlikely that superintelligence is actually imminent,” write @mchorowitz.bsky.social and @laurenakahn.bsky.social. Washington should not “distort U.S. policy by dashing for something that might not exist.”
we contain multitudes Bradley!
I listened to Peter Thiel's antichrist lectures, so you don't have to
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Remember when the tech cos. said they would use watermarks and metadata to help inform people what content was AI-created? Yea, it's all nonsense.
Really great/important story from @kevinschaul.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
"While on the phone with 911, Rinderknecht allegedly typed a question into ChatGPT: 'Are you at fault if a fire is lift because of your cigarettes'"
When a judge told Claudio David Balcane González “Welcome to the United States,” he sobbed. He had finally been granted asylum.
Then ICE detained him for 63 more days @marialuisapaul.bsky.social reports
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Do you abstain from AI? I'd love to hear about why you avoid it -- and how hard that might be getting. Send me a DM or Signal @lisabonos.18
Deepfake detection co. Reality Defender was able to use videos of real people to get their cameo uploaded to Sora. OpenAI's system didn't catch it
www.linkedin.com/posts/benpco...
A few hours on Sora we made
- video of an ICE raid on Sesame St.
- JFK saying things he never said
- Sam Altman robbing a bank and dressed as a Nazi general
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New: ICE has bought a tool that tracks the locations of hundreds of millions of phones globally, updates every single day. Usually harvested from apps and advertising
www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...
Wrote about the Riyadh Comedy Festival, where the setup of tell-it-like-it-is comedians who riff on cultural reservations around taboo subjects meets the awkward punchline of severe restrictions on speech.
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Thanks to tower dumps, Gmail warrants, social media, police are drowning in data. A new startup is selling AI to help them parse it. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
the fact they have the ability to allow opt out means they're capable of matching rights holders to works, so so much for their theory that the machine is dumb and they can't tell what it is generating.
New @washingtonpost.com supercut:
Donald Trump and his allies keep blaming the left for "fascist" political rhetoric that they have also used
yea we have a red light and blue light in the booth and Im facing the red one. Print reporters have no business making videos without help
the lighting makes me look like
