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Link drop: More technology-related nightmares (4)
Previous posts on this topic: Disclaimer: I love modern technology, provided we use it right… and unfortunately too often we don’t. My posts on this theme do NOT serve to fearmonger about or protest against technological advancement; they serve as a repeat warning to remind ourselves that humans are involved (who may get hurt if we go about things the w…
Link drop: Technology nightmares, ep. 3
Disclaimer: I love modern technology, provided we use it right… and unfortunately too often we don’t. My posts on this theme do NOT serve to fearmonger about or protest against technological advancement; they serve as a repeat warning to remind ourselves that humans are involved (who may get hurt if we go about things the wrong way).
Link drop: More inhumane technology nightmares
Disclaimer: I love modern technology, provided we use it right… and unfortunately too often we don’t. Further to my previous link drop on this topic, more sources presented without further comment (hover over the images for alt text, click each image to be redirected to the original stories):
Link drop: AI & other inhumane nightmares
Disclaimer: I love modern technology, provided we use it right… and unfortunately too often we don’t. Presented without further comment (hover over the images for alt text, click each image to be redirected to the original stories):

Disclaimer: I love modern technology, provided we use it right… and unfortunately too often we don’t.

My posts on this theme do NOT serve to fearmonger about or protest against technological advancement; they serve as a repeat warning to remind ourselves that humans are involved (who may get hurt if we go about things the wrong way).

As before: sources presented without further comment (hover over the images for alt text, click each image to be redirected to the original stories):


Adobe Caught Selling AI-Generated Images of Israel-Palestine Violence
futurism.com

The Curse of Recursion in AI Model Training
medium.com

Beware of crypto grifters looking to crash the AI party
fortune.com

Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers We asked them about it — and they deleted everything.
futurism.com

Tech Conference Collapses After Reports of AI-Generated Speakers
petapixel.com

ChatGPT revealed personal data and verbatim text to researchers
mashable.com

Making an image with generative AI uses as much energy as charging your phone
technologyreview.com

AI won't take your job, might shrink your wages, European Central Bank reckons 20 comment bubble on white In the US, however, folks are ready and willing to bin you for a bot
theregister.com

Firms like Meta and A16z admit having to pay billions for training data would ruin their generative-AI plans as they fight new copyright rules
businessinsider.com

Google, OpenAI, and Microsoft want users held responsible when generative AI tools show copyrighted material
businessinsider.com

Andreessen Horowitz would like everyone to stop talking about AI's copyright issues, please
businessinsider.com

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Link drop: More technology-related nightmares (5)

Further reminders that AI & other technology is only as good as the people using it.