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Dorothy Gambrell (@catandgirl) created the below #comic about discovering her work was used to train #Midjourney #GenerativeAI. We spoke to her about this comic—and the broken promises of the early web—in our most recent newsletter: https://themarkup.org/hello-world/2024/03/02/what-happens-when-your-art-is-used-to-train-ai In a rare look at just how deep (and weird) the rabbit hole of targeted advertising gets, we found 650,000 ways the digital ad industry labels you. FYI: This includes sensitive segments like “heavy purchasers” of pregnancy test kits or feeling “easily deflated.” Explore the dataset by searching any keyword you want and tell us what you find: https://themarkup.org/privacy/2023/06/08/from-heavy-purchasers-of-pregnancy-tests-to-the-depression-prone-we-found-650000-ways-advertisers-label-you @themarkup A 2020 study by Project Information Literacy that i worked on found that ‘creepy’ targeted advertising was a key concern around algorithms among college students. “Information literacy in the age of algorithms: Student experiences with news and information, and the need for change”  @themarkup So Microsoft and Oracle are also part of the Ad Industrial Complex, how do they compare to Google and Facebook?
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@themarkup @gbhnews @TexasObserver @damemagazine @STAT @mongabay @conversationus @thexylom Drivers should form co-ops, and the co-ops should develop an app that works like Uber. @themarkup @gbhnews @TexasObserver @damemagazine @STAT @mongabay @conversationus Hello y'all! Our good news to announce is that two of our writers got selected as AAAS Mass Media Fellows! https://www.aaas.org/news/aaas-announces-2023-mass-media-fellows @themarkup @gbhnews @TexasObserver @damemagazine @STAT @mongabay @conversationus @thexylom Shame it’s behind a paywall Meta handed over a user’s messages about accessing abortion medication to law enforcement. This has been happening since before Roe was overturned. @themarkup I guess the only response to this, is for everyone who has a facebook account to send each other abortion related messages, right?  @themarkup STOP USING CORPORATE CONTROLLED SYSTEMS. Damn I wish I could pound that into some people's brain 😭😭😭 |
@themarkup They will only take it down when they get sued, so hopefully someone has that queued up.
@themarkup I particularly love your table illustrating short, plausible questions, chatbot responses, and conflicting reality. A+ work, and I want to see more articles use that structure to describe these flawed chatbots.
Much more concrete than just talking about "hallucinations".
@themarkup Please can we stop calling bullshit generators ‘AI’? This kind of problem is a lot more obvious if you use correct terminology at the start:
‘We are going to deploy a bullshit generator to help inform people.’
Who would think it is a good idea when phrased that way?