privacy Facebook hands hundreds of contractors in India access to its users' private messages and private Instagram posts in order to help train an AI Cory Doctorow
events To do in NYC next Sat, May 11: "The Bigot in the Machine," a panel on algorithmic bias from PEN and McSweeney's Cory Doctorow
AI Gmail's automated spam-filtering is making it much harder to run an independent mail-server Cory Doctorow
art Artist designs a machine-learning assisted sculpture, then casts it in the powdered remains of the computer used to design it Cory Doctorow
Business Amazon stores recordings of Alexa interactions and turns them over to internal staff and outside contractors for review Cory Doctorow
Business Googler uprising leads to shut down of AI ethics committee that included the president of the Heritage Foundation Cory Doctorow
security Small stickers on the ground trick Tesla autopilot into steering into opposing traffic lane Cory Doctorow
Business The Chinese Communist Party's newspaper has spun out an incredibly lucrative censorship business Cory Doctorow
AI Philadelphia city council candidate says his secret AI has discovered disqualifying fraud in the nominations of 30 out of 33 candidates Cory Doctorow
scholarship A machine-learning system that guesses whether text was produced by machine-learning systems Cory Doctorow
AI Common Voice: Mozilla releases the largest dataset of voice samples for free, for all Cory Doctorow