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@iethics

@iethics
101 posts
2025-11-21
Expanding the need for AI literacy (please discuss this with friends and family)...
2025-11-21 View on X
TechCrunch

OpenAI expands group chats in ChatGPT globally to all logged-in users on Free, Go, Plus, and Pro plans, after piloting the feature in select regions

ChatGPT is launching group chats globally to all users on Free, Go, Plus, and Pro plans, OpenAI announced on Thursday.

2025-08-22
Useful to have this kind of disclosure (& not just for text prompts); it would be even more useful if accompanied by disclosure of the overall environmental impact, given what the paper itself describes as “the immense scale of user adoption globally.” #ethics #AI #tech #Google
2025-08-22 View on X
MIT Technology Review

Google says the median Gemini app text prompt consumes 0.24Wh of energy, about the same as running a microwave for a second, and emits 0.03g of CO2 equivalent

an official report confirms that Gemini consumes per query:  — 0.24 Wh of energy (~9 seconds of TV)  — 0.03 g of CO2 equivalent  — 0.26 ml of water (about 5 drops)  —  blog: cloud....

2025-03-26
“It remains unclear why these companies don't adopt more collaborative approaches and... rate-limit their #data harvesting runs so they don't overwhelm source websites.  #Amazon, #OpenAI, #Anthropic, and #Meta did not immediately respond to requests for comment”: arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/d...
2025-03-26 View on X
Ars Technica

Developers say aggressive AI crawlers are overwhelming open-source infrastructure; LibreNews: up to 97% of some projects' traffic comes from AI companies' bots

Software developer Xe Iaso reached a breaking point earlier this year when aggressive AI crawler traffic from Amazon overwhelmed …

2024-10-01
“[I]n one case, unauthorized people could assign themselves privileges that are supposed to be available only to clerks of the court and, from there, create, delete, or modify filings.” #ethics #law #internet #gov #tech #cybersec #privacy #research
2024-10-01 View on X
Ars Technica

Over the past year, one researcher has reported dozens of flaws in 19 commercial services used by hundreds of US courts, state agencies, and police departments

With hundreds of courts and agencies affected, chances are one near you is, too.  —  Public records systems that courts …

“Over the past year, ... [a] security researcher... has found and reported dozens of critical vulnerabilities in no fewer than 19 commercial platforms used by hundreds of courts, #government agencies, and police departments across the country.” #ethics #cybersec #privacy #tech
2024-10-01 View on X
Ars Technica

Over the past year, one researcher has reported dozens of flaws in 19 commercial services used by hundreds of US courts, state agencies, and police departments

With hundreds of courts and agencies affected, chances are one near you is, too.  —  Public records systems that courts …

2024-07-15
“Thrive #AI #Health is profoundly emblematic of this AI moment precisely because it is nothing, yet it demands that we entertain it as something profound.” But the products actually emblematic of the moment are not nothing, and have profound impacts right now. #ethics #tech
2024-07-15 View on X
The Atlantic

An interview with Sam Altman and Arianna Huffington on their startup Thrive AI Health to build an AI health coach, and why AI has become a technology of faith

so he asked them about it. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... @theatlantic : OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and the entrepreneur Arianna Huffington want to remake America's health-care system...

2024-05-06
“An ElevenLabs voice might be reading this article to you: The Atlantic uses the software to auto-generate audio versions of some stories, as does The Washington Post”: https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... #ethics #AI #tech #voice
2024-05-06 View on X
The Atlantic

A profile of ElevenLabs, whose founders seem unprepared for how its impressive AI voice cloning tech can change the internet and unleash political chaos

“Soon, I had high-quality audio of my voice clone urging people not to vote, blaming ‘the globalists’ for COVID.... It was enough to make me check with my bank to make sure any potential #voice-authentication features were disabled.” #ethics #AI #disinformation #privacy #business
2024-05-06 View on X
The Atlantic

A profile of ElevenLabs, whose founders seem unprepared for how its impressive AI voice cloning tech can change the internet and unleash political chaos

2024-05-05
“Soon, I had high-quality audio of my voice clone urging people not to vote, blaming ‘the globalists’ for COVID.... It was enough to make me check with my bank to make sure any potential #voice-authentication features were disabled.” #ethics #AI #disinformation #privacy #business
2024-05-05 View on X
The Atlantic

A profile of ElevenLabs, whose founders seem unprepared for how its impressive AI voice cloning tech can change the internet and unleash political chaos

My voice was ready.  I'd been waiting, compulsively checking my inbox.  I opened the email and scrolled until I saw a button that said, plainly, “Use voice.”

“An ElevenLabs voice might be reading this article to you: The Atlantic uses the software to auto-generate audio versions of some stories, as does The Washington Post”: https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... #ethics #AI #tech #voice
2024-05-05 View on X
The Atlantic

A profile of ElevenLabs, whose founders seem unprepared for how its impressive AI voice cloning tech can change the internet and unleash political chaos

My voice was ready.  I'd been waiting, compulsively checking my inbox.  I opened the email and scrolled until I saw a button that said, plainly, “Use voice.”

2024-04-05
A “very similar situation nearly led F-Droid to push an update that would have introduced a security vulnerability into the product three years ago... ‘In the end, it became clear that it added a SQL injection vulnerability’”: https://www.404media.co/... #ethics #cybersec #tech
2024-04-05 View on X
404 Media

Developers say open-source software culture, where users demand constant updates from volunteer coders, is a security issue, as shown by the XZ Utils backdoor

“In this case, the vulnerability ultimately wasn't pushed to a live product, but it's a very specific example of the types of pressures and culture that #opensource projects are constantly dealing with”: https://www.404media.co/... #ethics #internet #cybersec #tech
2024-04-05 View on X
404 Media

Developers say open-source software culture, where users demand constant updates from volunteer coders, is a security issue, as shown by the XZ Utils backdoor

2024-03-31
“The tiniest of shifts in LAION's thresholds could have excluded or included hundreds of millions of images. What the images contain plays no role at all in deciding what stays and what goes.” https://knowingmachines.org/ ... #ethics #AI #data
2024-03-31 View on X
Knowing Machines

Inside LAION-5B, an AI training dataset of 5B+ images that has been unavailable for download after researchers found 3,000+ instances of CSAM in December 2023

All  —  The  —  Way  —  Down  —  This one is sooo good.  I recommend this to anyone playing with #AI to understand the biases and the complexities.  Oh and the discussion of alt te...

Another “truth about generative #AI: The [concept] of what is... visually appealing can be influenced in outsized ways by the tastes of a very small group of individuals, and the processes that are chosen by dataset creators to curate the datasets” https://knowingmachines.org/ ... #data
2024-03-31 View on X
Knowing Machines

Inside LAION-5B, an AI training dataset of 5B+ images that has been unavailable for download after researchers found 3,000+ instances of CSAM in December 2023

All  —  The  —  Way  —  Down  —  This one is sooo good.  I recommend this to anyone playing with #AI to understand the biases and the complexities.  Oh and the discussion of alt te...

“There are models on top of models, and trainings sets on top of training sets. Omissions and biases and blind spots from these stacked-up models and training sets shape all of the resulting new models and new training sets”: https://knowingmachines.org/ ... #ethics #data #AI #research
2024-03-31 View on X
Knowing Machines

Inside LAION-5B, an AI training dataset of 5B+ images that has been unavailable for download after researchers found 3,000+ instances of CSAM in December 2023

All  —  The  —  Way  —  Down  —  This one is sooo good.  I recommend this to anyone playing with #AI to understand the biases and the complexities.  Oh and the discussion of alt te...

2024-03-30
Another “truth about generative #AI: The [concept] of what is... visually appealing can be influenced in outsized ways by the tastes of a very small group of individuals, and the processes that are chosen by dataset creators to curate the datasets” https://knowingmachines.org/ ... #data
2024-03-30 View on X
Knowing Machines

Inside LAION-5B, an AI training dataset of 5B+ images that has been unavailable for download after researchers found 3,000+ instances of CSAM in December 2023

If you want to make a really big AI model — the kind that can generate images or do your homework, or build this website …

“The tiniest of shifts in LAION's thresholds could have excluded or included hundreds of millions of images. What the images contain plays no role at all in deciding what stays and what goes.” https://knowingmachines.org/ ... #ethics #AI #data
2024-03-30 View on X
Knowing Machines

Inside LAION-5B, an AI training dataset of 5B+ images that has been unavailable for download after researchers found 3,000+ instances of CSAM in December 2023

If you want to make a really big AI model — the kind that can generate images or do your homework, or build this website …

“There are models on top of models, and trainings sets on top of training sets. Omissions and biases and blind spots from these stacked-up models and training sets shape all of the resulting new models and new training sets”: https://knowingmachines.org/ ... #ethics #data #AI #research
2024-03-30 View on X
Knowing Machines

Inside LAION-5B, an AI training dataset of 5B+ images that has been unavailable for download after researchers found 3,000+ instances of CSAM in December 2023

If you want to make a really big AI model — the kind that can generate images or do your homework, or build this website …

2024-03-22
#Cybersec researchers “taking a more cautious approach, while still warning the public about their technique, given that hundreds of properties will likely remain vulnerable to it even now that [the company] has offered its fix”: https://www.wired.com/... #ethics #business #tech
2024-03-22 View on X
Wired

Researchers reveal a hotel keycard hacking technique that can let a hacker almost instantly open RFID-based Saflok locks used in 3M doors across 13K properties

The company behind the Saflok-brand door locks is offering a fix, but it may take months or years to reach some hotels.

2024-02-23
“It's unclear which [#LLM] #Gab's #chatbots are trained on.... Gab AI also has an image generator and allows users to create their own customized chatbot, which they can infuse ‘with whatever bias and worldview they want’”: https://www.wired.com/... #ethics #socialmedia #internet
2024-02-23 View on X
Wired

Gab launched 91 chatbots over the past month, such as AI versions of Hitler and Trump, several of which deny the Holocaust, call climate change a scam, and more

David Gilbert / Wired :