christ what an asshole Palantir has figured out how to make money by using algorithms to ascribe guilt to people, now they're looking for new customers Cory Doctorow
uk UK police train machine-learning model using Experian data that stereotypes people based on garden size, first names, and postal codes Cory Doctorow
happy mutants UC Berkeley offers its Foundations of Data Science course for free online Cory Doctorow
china Chinese jaywalkers are identified and shamed by facial recognition, and now they'll get warnings over text message Cory Doctorow
law Law professors and computer scientists mull whether America's overbroad "hacking" laws ban tricking robots Cory Doctorow
security Invisible, targeted infrared light can fool facial recognition software into thinking anyone is anyone else Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Machine-learning-based image classifier can tell when the bus and bike-lanes are illegally obstructed Cory Doctorow
security Machine learning models keep getting spoofed by adversarial attacks and it's not clear if this can ever be fixed Cory Doctorow
Business Leaked presentation from AI snake-oil salesmen to AAA game company promises horrific, dystopian manipulation of players to drain their wallets Cory Doctorow
videos Reddit shuts down Deepfakes subreddit, home to faceswapped pornography (and some other stuff) Cory Doctorow
web theory Deepfakes has democratized the creation of extremely realistic video faceswapping, especially in porn Cory Doctorow
politics Research report explains how adtech supercharges political deceit, allowing even bumblers to be master propagandists Cory Doctorow
