Ben Winters

Maybe stop making TikToks and doing AI crimes

Yeah, I've had that error frequently when reporting scams. Just one of many issues

every 'pledge' is a lie that hasnt been revealed yet

regulate aggressively and clearly now, with the help of @ainowinstitute.bsky.social's amazing policy toolkit: ainowinstitute.org/publications...

to make matters worse, when i reported the same post with a different reason (bullying), it immediately worked.

it is genuinely hard not to sound all tinfoil hat, but Meta has famously boasted that reports of scams on their platforms has gone down

it doesnt feel coincidental that multiple times recently there has been a mysterious error when reporting scams

When i reported it as scam, there was a "technical problem" with no option for recourse for information

the last several times i've done this on different posts ive gotten the same error

facebook is truly a scam cess-pool - on the official Apple TV page with 31M there is a weird crypto scam being pushed and shared

a constant failure of moderation, standards, safety, and security

seems bad

Google faces wrongful death lawsuit after Gemini allegedly ‘coached’ man to die by suicide The lawsuit claims Google knows Gemini can produce “unsafe outputs.”

www.theverge.com/tech/889152/...

say what you will about Elon Musk, but he always has his finger on the cultural zeitgeist

the FTC loves fake reviews as long as they are generated by AI www.ftc.gov/news-events/...

“Resistance is futile,” a thing famously said by history’s good guys

Wow: In the early vote, it's a blow-out *so far*.

Rodney Sadler, the progessive pastor and activist, leads state Representative Carla Cunningham 75% to 18%.

(Stay tuned as we see how the Election Day vote compares, but that's an ominous start for the incumbent.)

Context:

the reddest of all possible flags

Thomson Reuters criticized by some Minnesota employees over its ICE contract Workers at the company’s Eagan campus pressed their concerns to executives, including over potential misuse of license plate data, during Twin Cities immigration surge.

Workers at the Thomson Reuters' Eagan campus pressed their concerns to executives, including over potential misuse of license plate data, during Twin Cities immigration surge.

🙏🙏🙏

will yall have some sort of stream or live-tracker as the results come in for these?

In Age of Disruption, a Defense of Incrementalism Evan Selinger and Albert Fox Cahn are the authors of Move Slow and Upgrade: The Power of Incremental Innovation.

In their book, Move Slow and Upgrade: The Power of Incremental Innovation, Evan Selinger and Albert Fox Cahn argue society is over-fixated on disruptive innovation and needs to adopt an “upgrader’s mindset,” which should be applied whenever “disruptive changes would pose the greatest social risk.”

thankfully it seems that it is not the same as the CNN arrangement where they are integrating flashing lights with Kalshi odds into newscasts, but rather AP providing (better?) access to data for Kalshi to integrate into their market offerings (?)

that is...allegedly...for now...it?

*sighs*

bro what

*has passed a ban on the sale of

the original wording relies on governor signature, which is hopefully coming soon

I've repeatedly said this in the past: the end goal of all AI is surveillance, specifically to influence and control

The Virginia legislature has banned the sale of precise geolocation data through a simple amendment to their otherwise bad privacy law!!!

lis.virginia.gov/bill-details...

it's an extraordinarily commonsense move that is unreasonable not to adopt nationwide -- the bar is low but gotta take the W!!

It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.

If America still had the rule of law, this would be the easiest prosecution ever, but we all know absolutely nothing will happen.

Toronto's @thestar.com sent a cease and desist letter to the creator of the podcast network that @indicator.media wrote about on Wednesday. He has promised to reverse course.

www.thestar.com/opinion/publ...

“Same Product, Same Price”: Onyema Introduces Landmark Bill to Ban Surveillance Pricing  - Insider NJ Today, Assemblyman Chigozie U. Onyema (D-Newark) introduced legislation to prohibit surveillance-based pricing.

We must ban surveillance pricing now before even more companies start using AI to charge you more based on your personal data.

I’ve introduced the first federal bill to ban it, and I’m glad to see a proposal in New Jersey to do the same.

this is like the microsoft execs screaming "DONT CALL AI SLOP SLOP"

Actually, the left is winning the AI debate But it does need to get organized.

The left is not "missing out" on AI. It's winning the argument. Americans worry about AI and dislike tech CEOs. They're mobilizing against data centers. They support regulation, even refusal.

Calls for the left to embrace AI are an effort to change the terms of the debate in Silicon Valley's favor.

Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ Have it your way?

The (near) future is a cloyingly named AI surveillance tool micromanaging every single thing you do www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...