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DigitalCharityLab retweeted
pedophile goggle maker does āgood deedā that costs them almost nothing and feeds the story to various press outlets so you forget they make pedophile goggles
Meta is donating 15,000 Ray-Ban Meta glasses to Vision Ireland, covering every blind and visually impaired adult the charity supports.
(engadget.com/2236054/meta-doā¦)
DigitalCharityLab retweeted
The transformation of Wired into a genuinely invaluable source of journalism on contemporary techno-fascism is one of the great enduring achievements of "Woke 1.0"
DigitalCharityLab retweeted
Meta used AI to target workers with medical conditions for layoffs, according to a new lawsuit.
Twenty-six former Meta employees are suing, accusing the company of using AI that disproportionately targeted people with disabilities or workers who took medical leave in selecting people āfor mass layoffs.
reuters.com/world/meta-used-ā¦
DigitalCharityLab retweeted
āļø Meta just silently opted in every adult Instagram user for their new Muse AI Image generator, which lets anyone create AI images of your likeness by tagging your public handle in a prompt, no notification when your photos are used, and no removal of images generated before you opt out.
To opt out on Instagram: Profile > Menu > Sharing and reuse, then switch off the reuse toggles under "Allow people to reuse your content on Instagram and with AI features at Meta."
DigitalCharityLab retweeted
As someone who always used to be excited for new tech, I am not interested anymore. Everything has gotten so greedy, addictive, expensive and exclusive. They don't solve problems, they create them, and then try to sell you the solution. We're in literal technology hell.
DigitalCharityLab retweeted
Few companies are innovating like Snapchat. They started as a child/revenge porn platform, but then they became the worst ads company in the history of the world, and now theyāre doing nonconsensual data collection. Very excited to see where they go next
Snapchat is reportedly in talks to pay Robert Downey Jr. $100M in stock to be an ambassador for its Specs AR glasses š¶ļø
Each pair costs $2,195
(via @alexeheath)
Once again, a pox on the person at Gmail who decided that a 'emoji reaction to emails' feature was either good or necessary
DigitalCharityLab retweeted
This is wildāand likely a sign of things to come as we transition to a web that is optimized for bots more than humans. theatlantic.com/technology/2ā¦
Does anyone have any insights into why Google search now ranks random blogs above newspapers, when you search for a book or film review?
DigitalCharityLab retweeted
This has all the familiar hallmarks of the peak of an investment bubble
Stage 1: An influx of investor capital (i.e. dumb VCs with money burning a hole in their pocket) gives rise to fundamentally unprofitable business models (AI Labs)
Stage 2: This sends false price signals throughout the economy (i.e. selling compute at negative margins), causing massive misallocation of capital (businesses and employee workflows built around artificially cheap compute) .
Stage 3 (you are here): The false price signals inevitably clash with economic reality. In a race to show less horrific cash burn ahead of their IPOs, OpenAI and Anthropic have switched to consumption-based pricing models, and now we're suddenly finding out that companies like Uber and WalMart are cutting back on consumption
Stage 4 (coming to a stonk near you): Lots of paper wealth gets vaporized
šØ Sam Altman warns OpenAi and Anthropic are experiencing severe pullback on Ai spending as companies put significant restraints on spending to restrict costs. The company warns investors itās the first time this has happened in Ai and something we never expected. The buildout costs arenāt sustainable to allow profitability to hyperscalers or end users.
$soxx $dram
DigitalCharityLab retweeted
āAI is not going anywhereā is a PR line from a gen AI company press release thatās trying to make their bad broken technology seem inevitable. Itās bullshit. Please stop repeating it.
Keke Palmer opens up about her thoughts on AI:
"The climate stuff is worrying and concerning, but then thereās the reality that itās not going anywhere. So I find myself trying to figure out how to be prepared, how to create things that protect the environment, be a part of things that are making it ethical. But Iām also understanding how itās democratizing a lot of spaces for people that otherwise couldnāt reach them. So itās weird. It can be so positive, but it also can be so damaging."
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DigitalCharityLab retweeted
Aside from, you know, killing the planet, you know why I hate AI flyers? They have so much filler disguised as information.
Because the people making them have no background in marketing or design! I HATE IT.
