Tech is just less fun these days. Regular people can see where they're being monetised, they can see the rot economy in action. Everything is convoluted, full of tolls, demanding your email address and phone number and tracking everything. It's exhausting www.wheresyoured.at/the-rot-econ...
New Yorkers, mayor adams is risking your lives to make u guinea pigs for faulty tech. "This city has a technology mayor,” Adams said. “Bring us your technologies. Let us test it.” the FTC and SEC already investigating this sketchy surveillance tool www.theverge.com/2024/3/28/24...
Ten bucks for deep porn fakes era is here. www.404media.co/irl-fakes-wh...
UPDATE! The founders of Calmara wrote a wildly snide response on LinkedIn to my article. They did not answer any questions about privacy concerns or the lack of age verification. www.linkedin.com/posts/lumeil...
Algorithms and Gaza by Lucy Suchman for @ainowinstitute.bsky.socialainowinstitute.org/publication/...
But you can generate a bedtime rap about a ninja in the style of Eminem, so some people call that a good trade.
Power companies are scrambling to satisfy the needs of data centers and new factories in a country where the grid is already strained.
This FTC is pushing through some wins. Rite aid, without any care for how it fails, just like many many others, used facial recognition tech which was biased and falsely accused more women and people of color as shoplifters and adding ppl to a watchlist. www.axios.com/2023/12/20/r...
A to the point framing of AI by AI Now ppl, concentration of power by big tech, that I think always serves as the context in which other issues play out. www-technologyreview-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.tech...
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I think it was @bankuei.bsky.social that said this but, the way that so many companies are framing things, ESPECIALLY around AI as a sudden fear of technology is purposefully reductive, because it's not the AI that folks are concerned about, it's how the AI will be used to abuse and exploit people.