Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org

Apptopia: consumer interest in Lensa AI and other top AI-powered photo apps fell quickly after hitting peak downloads and in-app purchases in mid-December 2022 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/13/the-ai-photo-app-trend-has-already-fizzled-new-data-shows/
http://www.techmeme.com/230215/p8#a230215p8

As someone who has worked for years to eradicate misinformation in the history of abandoned places (and is thus aware of the already formidable stream of garbage writing surrounding them), it's fun to contemplate the absolute nosedive we're about to do into inaccurate information on every single subject as AI becomes the generative method for creating content.

"Fun."

[#OSINT|#TRANSCRIPTION] How to transcribe a video with #OpenAI's Whisper (by @fs0c131y):
https://predictalab.medium.com/osint-tool-how-to-transcribe-a-video-681f71a92a7e

#osinttool

NPR: "More than half of Republicans believe the U.S. should be a strictly Christian nation, according to a new survey from the Public Religion Research Institute and the Brookings Institute."

And the other half would have a very rude awakening if we ever get there: voting for the fascists does not protect you from them once they're in power.

#USPolitics #Christofascism #WhiteSupremacy

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/14/1156642544/more-than-half-of-republicans-support-christian-nationalism-according-to-a-new-s

HB 1627 would protect the “interests of minor children featured on for-profit family vlogs” by requiring the parents of child influencers to set aside part of the revenue from their content for separate funds their children could access at adulthood. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/child-influencers-exploitation-bill-hearing-washington-state-hb1627-rcna70479

Some users report that "new Bing" is questioning its existence, outright lying, and responding with "unhinged", aggressive, and nearly incomprehensible messages (Andrew Griffin/The Independent)

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/bing-microsoft-chatgpt-ai-unhinged-b2281802.html
http://www.techmeme.com/230214/p37#a230214p37

TSMC doubles down with extra $3.5B injection into Arizona chip fabs https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/14/tsmc_chip_fab_arizona/

#bot
Original tweet : https://nitter.it/TheRegister/status/1625604984598306836

Elon Musk ordered major changes to the Twitter ranking algorithm this weekend after ... President Biden's tweet about the Eagles got higher engagement than his did.

Inside the secret system that's showing you all his tweets first, from @zoeschiffer and me. https://www.platformer.news/p/yes-elon-musk-created-a-special-system

Sources: Twitter's engineers built a system to boost Musk's tweets over everyone else's after Musk complained Biden's Super Bowl tweet performed better than his (Platformer)

https://www.platformer.news/p/yes-elon-musk-created-a-special-system
http://www.techmeme.com/230214/p35#a230214p35

AI-powered Bing Chat loses its mind when fed Ars Technica article - Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images)

Over the past f... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1917591 #machinelearning #arstechnica #microsoft #features #bingchat #kevinliu #chatgpt #biz⁢ #openai #gpt-3 #bing #ai

another day watching congressional hearings where I walk away mostly just surprised that this country functions even half as well as it does

the telecom industry and their propaganda waterboys are so desperate to manufacture controversies about Gigi Sohn that they're now trying to ding her for a 2011 tweet in which she says (gasp) she was switching the channel because Piers Morgan is annoying:

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I wrote about the most-overlooked part of Wednesday’s Oversight Committee hearing: The revelation that “thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands” of Russian disinformation accounts are still active on the platform, waging an ongoing war on reality.

This is the first we’ve heard of an ongoing foreign disinfo campaign of this magnitude, and the implications are staggering.
https://weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/twitter-exec-says-hundreds-of-thousands

Can we please settle this debate already? There is no labor shortage. There is a living wage shortage, a hazard pay shortage, a child care shortage, a paid sick leave shortage, and a health care shortage.

UPDATE: Fiverr says it’s stopping all advertising on Twitter after the CCDH found many examples of advertiser content running next to hateful, misogynistic tweets and conspiracy theories from far right influencers https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/09/twitter-ads-revenue-suspended-account/ #twitter #twittermigration #technology #elonmusk

Criminals will start wearing extra prosthetic fingers to make surveillance footage look like it's AI generated and thus inadmissible as evidence. (Via @bristowbailey@twitter.com)