happy mutants Machine learning is innately conservative and wants you to either act like everyone else, or never change Cory Doctorow
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privacy AI Now's annual report: stop doing "emotion detection"; stop "socially sensitive" facial recognition; make AI research diverse and representative — and more Cory Doctorow
china A Wechat-based "mobile court" presided over by a chatbot has handled 3m legal procedures since March Cory Doctorow
security Model stealing, rewarding hacking and poisoning attacks: a taxonomy of machine learning's failure modes Cory Doctorow
AI Second wave Algorithmic Accountability: from "What should algorithms do?" to "Should we use an algorithm?" Cory Doctorow
Funny Cards Against Humanity's Thanksgiving livestream pits a machine learning model against human joke writers Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Tiny alterations in training data can introduce "backdoors" into machine learning models Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Naomi Kritzer's "Catfishing on the CatNet": an AI caper about the true nature of online friendship Cory Doctorow
machine learning This software can clone a person's voice by listening to a 5-second sample Mark Frauenfelder
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Copyfight "Affordances": a new science fiction story that climbs the terrible technology adoption curve Cory Doctorow
Kids Educational spyware company to school boards: hire us to spy on your kids and we'll help you sabotage teachers' strikes Cory Doctorow
security Researchers think that adversarial examples could help us maintain privacy from machine learning systems Cory Doctorow
