MakeUseOf: “ChatGPT’s privacy policy tells us almost everything we need to know about its data retention habits. It gathers its information from three sources: Account information that you enter when you sign up or pay for a premium plan. Information that you type into the chatbot itself. Identifying data it pulls from your device or… Continue Reading
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LinkedIn Will Finally Offer Ways to Verify Your Job
Wired: “In the never-ending battle against online impersonation scams, the professional social media platform LinkedIn announced today a set of new verification features that enable users to authenticate aspects of their identities and job histories. Crucially, users will now have a few different options to verify their identity and current jobs on LinkedIn. That way,… Continue Reading
Now live for all: Substack Notes
“Today we’re launching Notes to everyone. Notes is a new space where you can publish short-form posts and share ideas with other writers and readers on Substack. Try Notes – Notes helps writers’ and creators’ work travel through the Substack network for new readers to discover. You can share links, images, quick thoughts, and snippets from Substack… Continue Reading
Everything advertised on social media is overpriced junk
Schnadower Mustri, Eduardo and Adjerid, Idris and Acquisti, Alessandro, Behavioral Advertising and Consumer Welfare: An Empirical Investigation (March 23, 2023). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4398428 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4398428 “The value that consumers derive from behavioral advertising has been more often posited than empirically demonstrated. The majority of empirical work on behavioral advertising has focused on estimating the… Continue Reading
We need to tell people ChatGPT will lie to them, not debate linguistics
Simon Willison: ChatGPT lies to people. “This is a serious bug that has so far resisted all attempts at a fix. We need to prioritize helping people understand this, not debating the most precise terminology to use to describe it. We accidentally invented computers that can lie to us I tweeted (and tooted) this: We… Continue Reading
Hashtags are everything on Mastodon — why not give them a home?
The Verge: “Mastodon has been one of the biggest beneficiaries of Twitter’s ongoing meltdown, and since I started seriously using it late last year, it’s won me over. While I still use Twitter for monitoring news and talking to the occasional source, Mastodon is my new home for shortform posting. But Mastodon has one significant… Continue Reading
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 8, 2023
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 8, 2023 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the… Continue Reading
How to bookmark a Mastodon post (and why you should)
ZDNet: “Mastodon offers many of the same features as Twitter. One such feature is the post bookmark. Here’s what it is and why you should use it…What is this feature? It’s very much like the bookmarks you use on your web browser — a convenient method of saving a post so you can easily refer… Continue Reading
If It’s Advertised to You Online, You Probably Shouldn’t Buy It. Here’s Why.
The New York Times: “…The ability to track people has turned out to be an unbeatable advantage for the online ad industry, which has grown to a $540 billion market worldwide, according to the media agency GroupM, dwarfing all other forms of advertising, including TV, radio and newspapers. It has propelled the massive growth of Google… Continue Reading
Measuring trends in Artificial Intelligence
“The AI Index is an independent initiative at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), led by the AI Index Steering Committee, an interdisciplinary group of experts from across academia and industry. The annual report tracks, collates, distills, and visualizes data relating to artificial intelligence, enabling decision-makers to take meaningful action to advance AI… Continue Reading
Clearview AI scraped 30 billion images from Facebook and gave them to cops
Insider: it puts everyone into a ‘perpetual police line-up’ – ” Clearview AI scraped 30 billion photos from Facebook to build its facial recognition database. US police have used the database nearly a million times, the company’s CEO told the BBC. One digital rights advocate told Insider the company is “a total affront to peoples’… Continue Reading
BookTok is Good, Actually: On the Undersung Joys of a Vast and Multifarious Platform
Lit Hub – Leigh Stein Wonders Why More Book People Don’t Embrace the Publishing Juggernaut. “Shallow, fake, showy, and performative—these are a few of the adjectives used to describe BookTok, the corner of TikTok where young women share and discuss books on camera, by drive-by tourists to a culture they don’t understand. I’m no BookTok… Continue Reading
