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☆ Meta will keep releasing AI tools despite leak claims
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-06 | by ( Stephen Nellis | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

March 6 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms Inc (META.O) on Monday said it will continue to release its artificial intelligence tools to approved researchers despite claims on online message boards that its latest large language model had leaked to unauthorized users. Facebook owner Meta maintains a major AI research arm and last month released LLaMA, short for Large Language Model Meta AI. Unlike some rivals such as OpenAI, which keeps tight wraps on its technology and charges software developers to access it, Meta's AI research arm shares most of its work openly. But AI tools also contain the potential for abuse, such as creating and spreading false information. "It’s Meta's goal to share state-of-the-art AI models with members of the research community to help us evaluate and improve those models," Meta said.

☆ A couple in Canada were reportedly scammed out of $21,000 after getting a call from an AI-generated voice pretending to be their son
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-06 | by ( Britney Nguyen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A couple in Canada reportedly lost $21,000 from a scammer claiming to be a lawyer and their son. Benjamin Perkin told The Washington Post his parents thought the AI-generated voice was him. Perkin told the Post the voice was "close enough for my parents to truly believe they did speak with me." Scams involving AI technology predate the emergence of ChatGPT and other AI bots going viral right now. "AI tools that generate authentic-seeming videos, photos, audio, and text could supercharge this trend, allowing fraudsters greater reach and speed," she said.

☆ ‘Dilbert’ to return on Scott Adams’ subscription service
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-06 | by ( Ramishah Maruf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Scott Adams, the comic creator who was dropped by hundreds of publications after his recent racist comments, tweeted that “Dilbert Reborn” will launch exclusively on his subscription site on March 13. Since his comments, Adams said on Twitter that he was only “advising people to avoid hate” and suggested that the cancellation of his cartoon indicates free speech in America is under assault. Dilbert is a comic strip that largely lampoons office cubicle culture. Hundreds of newspapers across the country and Andrews McMeel Universal, the company that syndicates “Dilbert,” dropped the comic after Adams’ offensive comments about Black Americans triggered an uproar. In a shocking rant on YouTube, Adams effectively encouraged segregation, calling Black Americans a “hate group” and suggesting that White people should “get the hell away” from them.

New York CNN —Andrews McMeel Universal, the company that syndicates “Dilbert,” said it is cutting ties with the comic strip’s creator, Scott Adams, after his racist remarks about Black Americans led hundreds of newspapers across the country to drop the satirical cartoon. The USA Today Network, which operates hundreds of newspapers, said it had pulled the plug on the long-running comic strip. The Washington Post and The Plain Dealer also in Cleveland said they would no longer carry the comic. “If nearly half of all Blacks are not OK with White people – according to this poll, not according to me, according to th is poll – that’s a hate group,” Adams said Wednesday on his YouTube show “Real Coffee with Scott Adams.”“I don’t want to have anything to do with them,” Adams added. “And I would say, based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to White people is to get the hell away from Black people, just get the f**k away … because there is no fixing this.”

☆ Hundreds of newspapers drop ‘Dilbert’ comic strip after racist tirade from creator Scott Adams
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-25 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

The USA Today Network, which operates hundreds of newspapers, said it had pulled the plug on the long-running comic strip. The move came after Scott Adams, the cartoonist behind “Dilbert,” effectively encouraged segregation in a shocking rant on YouTube. The newspapers that have cut the comic strip have been clear with readers. “Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic strip, went on a racist rant this week … and we will no longer carry his comic strip in The Plain Dealer,” wrote Chris Quinn, editor of the paper. “In light of Scott Adams’s recent statements promoting segregation, The Washington Post has ceased publication of the Dilbert comic strip,” it said.

Bored Ape Yacht Club was not the biggest crypto phenomenon, but it was one of the top beneficiaries of celebrity hype. The Bored Apes — a computer-generated collection of 10,000 cartoons — were being presented as a status symbol, membership in an exclusive club. Yuga sued Ripps for trademark infringement, and argues that his maligning of the Yuga apes is nothing more than a profiteering tactic. Hickman, who is Black, thought the Bored Apes looked like stereotypical portrayals of Black people as stupid or lazy. He said he thought this would be obvious to most people the second they saw an image of a Bored Ape.

There are "continued calls for violence directed at U.S. critical infrastructure," the agency warned last February, "as a means to create chaos and advance ideological goals." Law enforcement and utility companies, though, say they're working to resolve the open cases and prevent future attacks. Members of accelerationist groups have been charged with several plots in recent years to attack critical infrastructure. "The critical infrastructure element has become one of the core components of neo-fascist accelerationist movements in the US. "They don't really care who is doing the violence, who's doing the critical infrastructure attacks, Lewis said.

☆ From writing malicious code to creating deepfakes, generative-AI tools like ChatGPT are being used for harmful purposes. Here's how founders and VCs are thinking about policing them.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-21 | by ( Stephanie Palazzolo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

In the past few months, some have raved about the capabilities of generative AI tools like ChatGPT. Startups policing themselvesSome startups have taken it upon themselves to ensure their products aren't being used for the wrong purposes. In 2020, Resemble AI, a company that can generate voices using AI, released Resemblyzer, an open-source package that can verify speakers and detect fake speech. Despite their bad rap, the majority of deepfakes are used for marketing or entertainment, rather than malicious purposes, Riparbelli told Insider. But already, US government officials are collaborating with AI startups to form partnerships and fund research around these concerns, Ahmed told Insider.

☆ Elon Musk questioned why Davos is 'even a thing,' and jokingly compared the annual meeting of the global elite to online forum 4Chan
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-17 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk doesn't seem to like Davos very much at all. Musk this week questioned how the World Economic Forum is 'even a thing' and compared it to 4Chan. He said in December he wouldn't be attending the annual meeting because it "sounded boring." Sign up for our newsletter for the latest tech news and scoops — delivered daily to your inbox. He further insulted the forum on Monday and compared it to online message board 4Chan, which is well known for spawning baseless conspiracy theories.

☆ George Santos accused of flashing white-power symbol during House speaker vote
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-08 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Rep. George Santos has been accused of flashing a white-power symbol on the House floor on Thursday. Santos appeared to flash an OK symbol while casting a vote for Kevin McCarthy as speaker. The then-incoming lawmaker, who was sworn in on Saturday, was pictured making the gesture as he cast a vote for Kevin McCarthy in the tenth round of votes for House speaker. Santos used his right hand to cast his vote for McCarthy while making a sideways "OK" gesture with his left hand, which was positioned across his body. Many took to social media to condemn Santos and speculate on whether he had deliberately flashed the hand gesture.

☆ Kabosu: 'Doge' meme shiba inu is seriously ill with leukemia
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-28 | by ( Tara Mulholland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Hong Kong CNN —Kabosu, the internet-famous dog who inspired the “doge” meme and influenced digital culture for a decade, is seriously ill with leukemia and liver disease. While Sato said Kabosu’s appetite had returned, she had previously blogged that the dog was moving around less, and more slowly. It reached a peak value of more than $400 in 2014, and is considered the first “meme coin” or satire of cryptocurrency. After it raised funds for the Ukrainian military, the country’s Ministry of Defense tweeted its thanks with a photoshopped image of a shiba inu in fatigues. In Sato’s most recent posts about Kabosu, she said the dog was “in a very dangerous condition” and appeared to be jaundiced, but was also taking antibiotics.

☆ The internet-famous Shiba Inu who inspired 'doge' memes, and a joke cryptocurrency, is seriously ill with cancer
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-28 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Atsuko Sato said Tuesday that her Shiba Inu, Kabosu, was diagnosed with liver disease and leukemia. Shiba Inu dogs have an average life expectancy of between 12 to 15 years. It is unclear whether the Shiba Inu was Kabosu. Shiba Inu dogs have an average life expectancy of between 12 to 15 years. According to an Instagram post, Kabosu celebrated her 17th birthday in October.

☆ Why extremism experts say it's worth discussing the Colorado shooting suspect's pronouns
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-10 | by ( Jo Yurcaba | Jo Yurcaba Is A Reporter For Nbc Out. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +12 min

Attorneys for the alleged gunman in the deadly shooting at an LGBTQ club in Colorado said in court filings the suspect is nonbinary and uses “they” and “them” pronouns. In court appearances this week, Aldrich’s lawyers and District Attorney Michael Allen used he/him pronouns for Aldrich, but Aldrich’s attorneys referred to their client as “Mx. It’s unclear whether the public defenders were accidentally using he/him pronouns for Aldrich, and their office has not returned a request for comment. A spokesperson for the district attorney’s office said, regarding the suspect’s pronouns, “The defendant will be identified as the defendant throughout proceedings,” but declined to comment further on both legal teams using he/him pronouns for Aldrich in court. Holt said the response from Carlson is another part of why he believes it’s worth questioning the suspect’s claim.

☆ Elon Musk has criticized Apple for years. Apple has mostly ignored him.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Kif Leswing | Lora Kolodny | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +9 min

This week, Musk claimed in a tweet that Apple had mostly stopped advertising on the Twitter platform. Apple is not alone in reducing its campaigns on the social media platform since Musk took over. If the so-called “Apple Car” ever came to market, Tesla and Apple would be direct competitors. Cook and MuskHave Apple CEO Tim Cook and Musk ever spoken in depth? Around 2016, according to the book, Musk and Cook spoke about Apple potentially acquiring Tesla.

This week, Musk claimed in a tweet that Apple had mostly stopped advertising on the Twitter platform. Apple is not alone in reducing its campaigns on the social media platform since Musk took over. Whether accurate or not, Musk's allegation that Apple has "threatened to withhold" Twitter from its App Store may resonate with other developers. One of the most notable people to switch sides was Doug Field, who started at Apple, joined Tesla and then rejoined Apple. In case anybody missed the reference to Apple's App Store, which Apple maintains as the exclusive way to distribute apps to its devices, Musk then faked a cough and said, "Apple."

☆ Some QAnon believers are enraged by Trump's 2024 announcement and have started ignoring 'Q drops.' But experts say the movement is as fervent as ever.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-20 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Q-aligned candidates did badly at the midterms, and recent "Q drops" failed to make a stir. The QAnon movement was already on the back foot. To Q and beyondThe week of the midterm elections, three new "Q drops" appeared. While previous Q drops were met with excitement and flurries of posts from followers scrambling to decode them, the latest drops were largely met with ambivalence. Fredrick Brennan, who founded 8chan but has since dedicated himself to exposing those behind the Q movement, told Insider that the reaction to the latest Q drops was comparatively "muted" following controversial drops in the summer.

☆ The 6 most interesting quotes from the podcast hosted by Elon Musk's friends that Twitter staff were reportedly told to listen to amid layoffs
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-08 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Some Twitter staff were told to listen to a podcast hosted by Elon Musk's associates, Platformer reported. A Twitter VP reportedly told staff it would provide insight into why layoffs were necessary. David Sacks and Jason Calacanis — two of Musk's close associates who have stepped in to help him at Twitter — also cohost the show. 'Just helping a friend'During the podcast, Sacks and Calacanis attempted to clarify their new roles at Twitter. It later emerged that they were likely practical jokers pretending to be laid off Twitter staff.

☆ Here's how Twitter and Elon Musk can prevent racist 'raids' on the social network
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Lora Kolodny | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

In this photo illustration, the image of Elon Musk is displayed on a computer screen and the logo of twitter on a mobile phone in Ankara, Turkiye on October 06, 2022. When Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk took over at Twitter, showing up at headquarters on Oct. 27, 2022, online trolls and bigots raided the social network, polluting it with a deluge of racist epithets and other hate speech. Their campaign was waged across myriad social platforms including Twitter and Reddit, and manifested in real world rape and death threats, and a bomb scare targeting the critic. Some people engage in so-called "inauthentic" activity on social networks just to see if they can get away with it ("for the lulz"). NCRI uses sophisticated machine learning software and systems to monitor huge amounts of social network content, and to track rising hatred and threats against marginalized groups online, including Black, Jewish, Hindu and Muslim people.

☆ Ad giant IPG advises brands to pause Twitter spending after Musk takeover
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-01 | by ( Lora Kolodny | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

The Twitter logo is seen on a mobile device in ths illustration photo in Warsaw, Poland on 30 October, 2022. Twitter is losing its most active users according to research done by Reuters. Advertising giant Interpublic Group has recommended that clients of its IPG Media Brands agencies suspend all paid advertising on Twitter for at least a week following Elon Musk's $44 billion acquisition of the social media network. Yoel Roth, head of safety at Twitter, has posted several threads to Twitter discussing how the company is combating this. Finchem called upon Musk personally for help in a tweet, and Musk said in a reply on Twitter that he was "looking into" the matter.

☆ Use of N-word on Twitter jumped by almost 500% after Elon Musk's takeover as trolls test limits on free speech, report says
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-29 | by ( Joshua Zitser | Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Elon Musk's Twitter takeover sparked a surge in the use of the N-word on the social media platform. A social media research group told The Washington Post the use of the slur increased by nearly 500%. "Almost immediately I noticed an increase in anti-trans harassment, it's very visible," said Erin Reed, a trans activist and queer legislative researcher, per The Washington Post. Alex Goldenberg, NCRI's lead intelligence analyst, told The Washington Post that "online trolls regularly test the limits of moderation." On the same day, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz tweeted that Musk's purchase of Twitter was "the most important development for Free Speech in decades."

☆ After Buffalo mass shooting, New York urges a nationwide crackdown on livestreamed carnage
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

New York leaders are urging federal and state reforms after the Buffalo mass shooting. They also recommend making it easier to sue streaming platforms like Twitch and Discord. There is currently no law on the books in New York or elsewhere criminalizing the act of livestreaming oneself committing a homicide. In the case of the Buffalo mass shooting, the alleged gunman had been radicalized by racist posts that ran rampant and uncensored on sites including 4chan, Reddit and 8chan, the report said. Twitch, the Amazon-owned video-streaming service stopped the Buffalo live-stream approximately two minutes after the first person was shot, the report said.

☆ Trans Twitch streamer Keffals is ready to return home after Kiwi Farms
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Morgan Sung | Morgan Sung Is A Trends Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

The internet archive site Wayback Machine removed Kiwi Farms from its records, and Google delisted it from search results. After Cloudflare stopped servicing it, Kiwi Farms moved to Russian servers, where it was quickly shuttered again when web-hosting provider DDos-Guard also terminated services. It’s so important to be able to collaborate with other trans streamers of that size.”Sorrenti poses at Hasan Piker's TwitchCon booth. NBC NewsAnnie Roberts, a Twitch ambassador, noted the increase of the trans streamers on the platform in recent years. She became even closer to the creators who moderate her channel and make up her executive staff, because they too were doxxed by Kiwi Farms users for working with her.

☆ Bill Gates says some people yell at him in public, accusing him of 'putting chips into people'
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-13 | by ( Britney Nguyen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Bill Gates said he's run into people in public who yell at him for "putting chips into people." He called the conspiracy theory "tragic" if it caused people to be hesitant of vaccines or masks. Conspiracy theories surrounding vaccines predate the coronavirus pandemic. The conspiracy theory that the COVID-19 vaccine is injecting a microchip connected to 5G mobile networks that can track people, started on 4plebs, a community-run channel on 4chan. Gates said he didn't want to make too much fun of the conspiracy theories around the vaccine because it's "pretty serious stuff."

În astfel de grupuri, oamenii pot dezvolta propriile teorii și pot propune acțiuni pentru a combate pericolele pe care le „descoperă”. Pizzagate, Covid-19, mișcarea anti-vaccin și QAnonÎnsă, cum poți ști dacă o poveste de pe rețelele de socializare online este cu adevărat o teorie conspiraționistă? Pentru a vedea dacă pot distinge între o teorie conspiraționistă și teorie adevărată, cercetătorii au analizat și Bridgegate, operațiunea politică orchestrată de membri din administrația guvernatorului republican Chris Christie împotriva primarului democratic din Fort Lee, New Jersey. Ce a descoperit inteligența artificialăPe măsură ce oamenii de știință au comparat rezultatele, s-au remarcat două trăsături distincte ale narațiunii conspiraționiste. În schimb, narațiunea pentru Pizzagate a fost fracturată cu ușurință.

Persons: republican Chris Christie, Fort Lee, Bridgegate Organizations: Universitatea din, Science Alert, republican Locations: Universitatea din California, Fort, New Jersey, Pizzagate

☆ В организации штурма Капитолия обвиняют Россию
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-10 | by ( Super User | ) mybusiness.md time to read: +10 min

Полностью выдуманные реальности могут двигать людьми — и создавать новые реальности», пишет украинское издание "Русский еврей" со ссылкой на "Голос Америки". Заявления о подтасовках на выборах звучали из уст самого Дональда Трампа, а также многократно усиливались эхом этих заявлений в социальных медиа и других интернет-площадках. Они нанимали американских граждан и использовали их «втемную» для написания для этих площадок материалов, в которых проводились такие взгляды. Эксперт говорит, что параллельная кампания была организована российскими официальными медиа: «RT и Sputnik постоянно показывали, что результаты выборов крайне неясны. Среди прочего мы смотрели, какие из случаев, за которыми, как предполагается, стояла Россия, привлекли наибольшее внимание медиа, и каких медиа.

Persons: Zeeshan, Emerson Brooking, Michael Weiss, rusjev.net, Зишан Алим, Дональд Трамп, Эмерсон Брукинг, Эмерсон Брукинг ( ), Кремль, Джо Байден, Руди Джулиани, Трамп, Майкл Вайс, Майкл Вайс ( ), Ктото, Путин Organizations: VOX, WikiLeaks, Free Russia Foundation, 4chan, Sputnik, Твиттер, Голос Америки, Конгресс, Атлантический Совет, Агентство интернетисследований, АИИ, СШААмериканский, Фонд Свободной России ( ), НАТО, ЦРУ Locations: –, Москва, Вашингтон, Капитолий, США, Россия, Украина, Джорджия, Америка, Запад, Гонконг, Евромайдан

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