⚠️ They thought loved ones were calling for help – It was an AI scam

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They thought loved ones were calling for help. It was an AI scam. The man calling Ruth Card sounded just like her grandson Brandon. So when he said he was in jail, with no wallet or cellphone, and needed cash for bail, Card scrambled to do whatever she could to help. “It was definitely this feeling of… (Pranshu Verma / Washington Post)

Pranshu Verma @pranshuverma_

new: AI voice-cloning tech is making phone scams frighteningly believable. I talked to some who got duped. They were elderly + heard their loved one needed cash now. They felt it might be a scam, but the voice sounded too real to ignore. One lost $21k.

washingtonpost.comThey thought loved ones were calling for help. It was an AI scam.Scammers are using artificial intelligence to sound more like family members in distress. Loved ones are falling for it and losing thousands of dollars.

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Twitter can't protect you from trolls any more, insiders say. She suggested a tweet that she would have expected to trigger a nudge. 'Twitter employees are lazy losers, jump off the Golden Gate bridge and die.' I shared it on a private profile in response to one of her tweets, but to Ms Jennings Young's… (Marianna Spring / BBC)

Marianna Spring @mariannaspring

EXCL: Twitter insiders have told me and BBC Panorama it’s no longer able to protect users from trolling, state-co-ordinated disinformation and child exploitation. Exclusive data and Twitter users’ testimony suggests hate & trolls are thriving. BBC One, 8PM.

bbc.co.ukTwitter can’t protect you from trolls any more, insiders sayCurrent and former employees of the company say there are serious ramifications from mass lay-offs.

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The Vindication of Ask Jeeves. It was a simpler time. A friend introduced us, pulling up a static yellow webpage using a shaky dial-up modem. A man stood forth, dressed in a dapper black pinstriped suit with a red-accented tie. He held one hand out, as if carrying an imaginary… (Charlie Warzel via The Atlantic)

Charlie Warzel @cwarzel

Ask Jeeves predicted our AI chatbot search future. So I went and found JEEVES

theatlantic.comThe Vindication of Ask JeevesGarrett Gruener, the co-creator of Ask Jeeves, couldn’t beat Google, but he’s feeling just fine about the dawn of the chatbot era.

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Using A.I. to Detect Breast Cancer That Doctors Miss. Inside a dark room at Bács-Kiskun County Hospital outside Budapest, Dr. Éva Ambrózay, a radiologist with more than two decades of experience, peered at a computer monitor showing a patient's mammogram. Two radiologists had… (Adam Satariano / The New York Times)

Adam Satariano @satariano

I went to Hungary to see how A.I. is being used by doctors to detect breast cancer that may otherwise be missed, one of the most tangible ways I’ve seen that A.I. can improve public health. W/ ⁦@CadeMetz⁩

nytimes.comUsing A.I. to Detect Breast Cancer That Doctors MissHungary has become a major testing ground for A.I. software to spot cancer, as doctors debate whether the technology will replace them in medical jobs.

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This Algorithm Could Ruin Your Life. It was October 2021, and Imane, a 44-year-old mother of three, was still in pain from the abdominal surgery she had undergone a few weeks earlier. She certainly did not want to be where she was: sitting in a small cubicle in a building near the… (Matt Burgess / WIRED)

Lighthouse Reports @LHreports

Algorithms are being used in welfare systems across Europe to hunt for fraud. These machines make life-changing decisions about millions of people. They claim to be accurate and fair. For the first time we got access to fully test these claims

lighthousereports.comSuspicion MachinesUnprecedented experiment on welfare surveillance algorithm reveals discrimination

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