This is interesting for its authors — powerful Senators from pretty far apart, politically. They’re proposing the thing I’ve assumed was politically unfeasible here: a big new regulator for tech.
We need a nimble, adaptable new agency with the expertise, resources and authority to rein in the tech giants that control our digital lives.
An important story for anyone following online harm.
I love how instead of doing things to fix our propaganda problem (improve mental health care, shore up media criticism in schools, publicly or creatively fund independent journalism, fight media consolidation) we're supercharging the whole broken mess with plagiarism prone robots
“News Corp Australia is producing 3,000 articles a week using generative artificial intelligence, executive chair Michael Miller has revealed.
The Data Local team uses AI technology to generate stories on weather, fuel prices and traffic reports for hyper-local mastheads
I would call it posting of CSAM. The thing is, there are so many was to performatively make that point that don’t involve posting actual CSAM.
