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☆ The House Vote to Force Tik Tok’s Sale Is a Mistake - The New York Times
  + stars: | 2024-03-14 | by ( Julia Angwin | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
But there is an issue on which both sides agree: We need more privacy and TikTok should not be banned. And only 31 percent of Americans favor a nationwide ban on TikTok, according to a February Associated Press-NORC opinion poll. Despite public sentiment, the U.S. House passed legislation on Wednesday by an overwhelming majority that could force TikTok to divest from control by its Chinese parent company or be banned. TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, is based in China, and American lawmakers say they are pursuing a ban in the name of protecting U.S. data from the Chinese government. But lawmakers are not pursuing comprehensive federal privacy legislation that would protect Americans’ data across all the apps they use.
Persons: TikTok Organizations: Pew Research, Associated Press, U.S . House Locations: China
☆ Opinion | The OpenAI Coup Is Great for Microsoft. What Does It Mean for Us?
  + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Julia Angwin | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
There was the coup that hit the headlines: the OpenAI board’s abrupt ousting of its co-founder and chief executive, Sam Altman. Monday, it was announced that Microsoft was hiring Mr. Altman and another OpenAI co-founder, Greg Brockman. Microsoft had already invested more than $13 billion in OpenAI; its absorption of OpenAI leadership — and the likely hiring of hundreds of OpenAI staff members who signed a letter saying they would leave to join Microsoft unless the board resigned — effectively completes its takeover. OpenAI was founded in 2015 with the explicit mission of building an alternative to the for-profit A.I. It was established as a nonprofit, and its stated mission is to “ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.”
Persons: Sam Altman, Altman, Greg Brockman, —, OpenAI, ” Organizations: Microsoft Locations: OpenAI
☆ This Is How A.I. Ruins the Internet - The New York Times
  + stars: | 2023-09-23 | by ( Julia Angwin | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Greg Marston, a British voice actor, recently came across “Connor” online — an A.I.-generated clone of his voice, trained on a recording Mr. Marston had made in 2003. Of course, at that time, Mr. Marston couldn’t envision that IBM would use anything more than the exact utterances he had recorded. Mr. Marston recently discovered his voice emanating from the Wimbledon website during the tennis tournament. Hollywood writers and actors are on strike partly because they want to ensure their work is not fed into A.I. News outlets including The New York Times and CNN have added files to their website to help prevent A.I.
Persons: Greg Marston, “ Connor, Marston, Marston couldn’t Organizations: IBM, Wimbledon, New York Times, CNN Locations: British
☆ Craigslist founder Craig Newmark is pouring millions of dollars into combating AI's dark side
  + stars: | 2023-09-14 | by ( Jonathan Vanian | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +10 min
Since the 2015 debut of Craig Newmark Philanthropies, the entrepreneur has donated many millions of dollars to various causes involving media and technology. Newmark, 70, spoke to CNBC as he was recovering from a minor heart procedure he went through in late August. At the same time, he's worried that tech companies, particularly in social media, "aren't even trying anymore to get rid of stuff they know is dishonest," he said. "Protecting kids when it comes to AI is a big issue," Newmark said, regarding his donation to Common Sense Media. Within journalism, Newmark's most high-profile endeavor is the City University of New York's Craig Newmark Graduate School in Journalism.
Persons: Craig Newmark, Everard Craig Newmark, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, Newmark, he's, aren't, I've, Rather, Jim Jordan, I'm, City University of New York's Craig, Julia Angwin, she'd, Sue Gardner, algorithmically, Thilina, doesn't, " Newmark, that's Organizations: Craigslist, LinkedIn, Facebook, Sense Media, CNBC, Tech, Meta, Twitter, Sense, Knight Foundation, Ford Foundation, City University of New, City University of New York's Craig Newmark Graduate School, Journalism, CUNY, Nurphoto Locations: San Francisco, New York, Ohio
☆ Social Media Algorithms Control Us. It’s Time To Push Back. - The New York Times
  + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Julia Angwin | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, which he renamed X, has shown what can happen when an individual pushes a political agenda by controlling a social media company. He has reinstated accounts that were banned because of the white supremacist and antisemitic views they espoused. To prevent those who would hijack algorithms for power, we need a pro-choice movement for algorithms. We, the users, should be able to decide what we read at the newsstand. In my ideal world, I would like to be able to choose my feed from a list of providers.
Persons: Elon, Musk, Tucker Carlson, Andrew Tate, Charlie Warzel, Susie’s curation Organizations: Twitter, American Civil Liberties Union, Heritage Foundation Locations: The, Belgrade
☆ Give Journalists What They Need To Hold Big Tech Accountable - The New York Times
  + stars: | 2023-07-14 | by ( Julia Angwin | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
The traditional gatekeepers of knowledge — librarians, journalists and government officials — have largely been replaced by technological gatekeepers — search engines, artificial intelligence chatbots and social media feeds. Whatever their flaws, the old gatekeepers were, at least on paper, beholden to the public. The reforms also require large tech platforms to audit their algorithms to determine how they affect democracy, human rights and the physical and mental health of minors and other users. To hold them accountable, the law also requires large tech platforms like Facebook and Twitter to provide researchers with access to real-time data from their platforms. But there is a crucial element that has yet to be decided by the European Union: whether journalists will get access to any of that data.
Persons: — Organizations: European Union, Digital Services, Digital Markets, Big Tech, Facebook, Twitter, European Locations: China, India, European Union
☆ Signal and WhatsApp Are Among the Last Bastions of Digital Privacy - The New York Times
  + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( Julia Angwin | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +3 min
Apple’s proposal would have downloaded onto every device a secret list of IDs corresponding to known exploitation images. It would then use an algorithm to determine whether any photos on the device were similar to those on the list. Like all matching algorithms, Apple’s system makes educated guesses based on statistical probabilities, but those guesses could be wrong. The second, and greater, problem was that scanning for one type of content opens the doors for scanning for other types of content. Do we want to start allowing the government to require companies to conduct suspicionless, warrantless searches of our messages with family, friends and co-workers?
Persons: Sarah Scheffler, Jonathan Mayer, Apple, Taylor Swift, Apple’s Organizations: Apple, Princeton Locations: India, China, Madison, United States
☆ Social Media Companies Need to Address Speech That Incites Fear - The New York Times
  + stars: | 2023-05-06 | by ( Julia Angwin | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
But by allowing such speech to be disseminated on their platforms, the social media companies were doing something that should perhaps concern us even more: They were stoking fear of a marginalized group. Nearly all of the tech platforms developed extensive and detailed rules banning hate speech after finding that the first thing that happens on a new social network is that users start tossing slurs at one another. The European Union even monitors the speediness with which tech platforms remove hate speech. But fear is weaponized even more than hate by leaders who seek to spark violence. Hate is often part of the equation, of course, but fear is almost always the key ingredient when people feel they must lash out to defend themselves.
☆ We still have questions about how well TikTok can wall off its data from China, says author Julia Angwin
  + stars: | 2023-03-23 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: 1 min
Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailWe still have questions about how well TikTok can wall off its data from China, says author Julia AngwinJulia Angwin, author of 'Dragnet Nation,' joins the 'CNBC Special: Taking stock' to discuss the intense scrutiny Chinese social media app TikTok faced today on Capitol Hill.
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