🧑⚖️ Twitter's Legal Battle, AI Labeling Race, UK's Secret Facial Recognition Push, and more...
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Twitter Threatens Legal Action Against Nonprofit That Tracks Hate Speech Twitter Threatens Legal Action Against Nonprofit That Tracks Hate Speech, Elon Musk has over the last year threatened legal action. (Sheera Frenkel / The New York Times)
The huge irony of censors like CCDH whining about being censored - Dan Gainor (@dangainor)
The race to find a better way to label AI As my colleague Melissa Heikkilä has written, most of the current technical solutions “don't stand a chance against the latest generation of AI language models.” Nevertheless, the race to label and detect AI-generated content is… (Tate Ryan-Mosley / MIT Technology Review)
With the boom of AI-generated text, images, and videos, both lawmakers and average internet users have been calling for more transparency - MIT Technology Review (@techreview)
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Home Office secretly backs facial recognition technology to curb shoplifting Home Office officials have drawn up secret plans to lobby the independent privacy regulator in an attempt to push the rollout of controversial facial recognition technology into high street shops and supermarkets (Mark Townsend / The Guardian)
Covert government strategy to install electronic surveillance in shops raises issues around bias + data, and contrasts sharply with the EU ban to keep AI out of public spaces - Stephanie Hare (@hare_brain)
Will automakers be able to challenge Tesla's Supercharger? Automakers appear to have had an awakening last week: Electric vehicles are the future, and if they want to continue selling cars, they have to think beyond the car. (Tim De Chant / TechCrunch)
Can we trust automakers to build an EV charging network that rivals Tesla’s Supercharger? - TechCrunch+ (@TechCrunchPlus)
Apple's iPhone 15 Pro will reportedly feature new charging port, titanium body Apple's iPhone 15 will reportedly feature some major changes. The iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus will be compatible with USB-C charging in order to comply with regulations from the EU. (Ashley Capoot / CNBC)
Apple's iPhone 15 Pro will reportedly feature new charging port, titanium body - 🅹 🄱 (@jossiancosta)
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