π Google's AI Rules, Big Tech, & Education's Digital Divide
Todayβs pick
Google will soon require disclaimers for AI-generated political ads. Google will soon start requiring political advertisers to βprominently discloseβ when they made their ads with AI, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. Starting in November, Google says advertisers must include a disclosure when an election ad features βsynthetic contentβ that depicts βrealistic-looking people or events.β By Emma Roth via The Verge
Google to Require βProminentβ Disclosures for AI-Generated Election Ads - Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra)
How Big Tech Got So Damn Big. βTech exceptionalismβ is the sin of thinking that the normal rules don't apply to technology. The idea that you can lose money on every transaction but make it up with scale (looking at you, Uber)? Pure tech exceptionalism. By Cory Doctorow via WIRED
How Big Tech Got So Damn Big - Tania GonzΓ‘lez (@TaniaGlezAZ)
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Dependence on Tech Caused 'Staggering' Education Inequality, U.N. Agency Says. In early 2020, as the coronavirus spread, schools around the world abruptly halted in-person education. To many governments and parents, moving classes online seemed the obvious stopgap solution. In the United States, school districts scrambled scrambled to secure digital devices for students. By Natasha Singer via The New York Times
A lot of prominent people in 2020-21 said instead of getting kids back into in-person schooling we should focus our attention on making online classes work better. They were very wrong. - Marc Porter Magee (@marcportermagee)
Derivative works are generative AI's poison pill. Meta's recent Llama 2 launch demonstrated the explosion in interest in open source large language models (LLMs), and the launch was heralded as being the first open source LLM from Big Tech with a commercial license. In all the excitement, it's easy to forget the real cloud of uncertainty over legal issues like IP (intellectual property) ownership and copyright in the generative AI space. Β By Simeon Simeonov via TechCrunch
Derivative works are generative AIβs poison pill - Hala Bughazi (@HalaBughazi)
Want to See How Bad Twitter's Bot Problem Is? Ask for Crypto Help. Twitter, the platform formally known as X, has a bot problem. If you want to see just how bad it is, I'll teach you the magic words that summon the machines. Threads Needs These Five Missing Features to Be a Twitter Killer For the past year, Don Marti has been tweeting requests for help with βMetaMask support.β By Thomas Germain via Gizmodo
Is it true, that Twitter's bot problem is off the charts when it comes to crypto help? Throw out a question about #Metamask or #crypto and you'll be swarmed with more bots than you can shake a virtual stick at? What says you? - Neal Schaffer | γγΌγ«γ»γ·γ§γΌγγ‘γΌ (@NealSchaffer)
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