Mack DeGeurin
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Remember That Letter Calling for a Pause on AI? It Didn’t Work
Top tech and business leaders begged generative AI companies to pause new developments for six months. AI companies clearly didn’t listen.
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A Bender-Style Sassy Chatbot and Other Goofy AI Personas May Come to Facebook and Instagram
Meta is preparing to unleash a small army of talkative AI chatbots onto Facebook and Instagram in a bid to attract younger users, according to a new report in the Wall Street Journal. The chatbots will reportedly embody various “personas,” ranging from sassy shit-talkers to extraterrestrial aliens. But back-talking language models are just the start.…
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School Surveillance Tools Are Harming Kids and Making It More Difficult to Finish Homework, Report Finds
The pandemic-era shift to remote learning sparked an acceleration of an already growing trend: education technology companies jockeying to sell schools on systems for monitoring students and filtering their internet browsing. Though school administrators will argue these tools are necessary to ensure kids’ safety online, newly released data shared with Gizmodo highlights numerous privacy concerns…
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TikTok Employees Recoil at Return-to-Office Tracker App
TikTok is reportedly deploying a new employee badge monitoring app as part of a renewed effort to pressure its workers to spend more days in the office, according to a recent New York Times report. The attendance app comes as other big players in tech like Meta and Google similarly continue to clamp down on…