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NEW RESOURCES
Brookings Institution: Despair underlies our misinformation crisis: Introducing an interactive tool. “…we have built an interactive which highlights the places and populations that are most vulnerable to despair and misinformation. The interactive presents county level information on despair, access to credible local news, cognitive skill levels for high school graduates, COVID vaccination rates, and access to higher education opportunities.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
The Verge: The massive fanfic archive AO3 is back after a wave of DDoS attacks. “The popular fanfiction platform Archive of Our Own (AO3) has been restored after a wave of distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks forced the website offline for over a day.”
Axios: AP strikes news-sharing and tech deal with OpenAI. “The Associated Press on Thursday said it reached a two-year deal with OpenAI, the parent company to ChatGPT, to share access to select news content and technology.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
Refinery29: Are The Spill & Threads Apps New Homes For Black Internet Discourse?. “Using Twitter was, and arguably still is, a uniquely connective experience that moved at the lightning speed of your every thought. Nothing compares to when Rihanna’s off-the-cuff clapbacks were at their most savage, people pulled up to Twitter like a family cookout, and anyone could gain new followers-turned-family using friendly hashtags. But in recent years, the conversation has taken a turn.”
New York Times: What Happens When You Ask a Chinese Chatbot About Taiwan?. “Compared with OpenAI’s newest model, known as GPT-4, Ernie 3.5 was ‘slightly inferior’ in a comprehensive test, but it performed better when both were spoken to in Chinese, Baidu said, citing a report sponsored by one of China’s top research academies. We wanted to see for ourselves and tested Ernie 3.5 against GPT-4.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
Roll Call: Group pushing FCC on deepfake ads submitting new petition. “Less than three weeks after the Federal Election Commission deadlocked on a request to develop regulations governing so-called deepfake political ads generated using artificial intelligence tools, a non-partisan advocacy group pushing for the new rules is trying again.”
Ars Technica: WordPress plugin installed on 1 million+ sites logged plaintext passwords. “All-In-One Security, a WordPress security plugin installed on more than 1 million websites, has issued a security update after being caught three weeks ago logging plaintext passwords and storing them in a database accessible to website admins.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
University of Southern California: Understanding Global Events in Every Language. “Valuable insights can be gained from vast amounts of text. Event extraction is used to predict political instability; track the path of disease outbreaks; identify social unrest; follow natural disasters; and much more. But it comes with its own set of challenges. A team of AI researchers at the Information Sciences Institute (ISI), a research institute of USC Viterbi School of Engineering, has developed a method to combat one of those challenges: how to extract event information from foreign language text.”
MIT News: A new way to look at data privacy. “MIT researchers created a new data privacy metric, Probably Approximately Correct (PAC) Privacy, and built an algorithm based on this metric that can automatically determine the minimal amount of randomness that needs to be added to a machine-learning model to protect sensitive data, like sensitive lung scan images, from an adversary.”
Cornell University: Data scientists predict stock returns with AI and online news. “For years, the financial press has helped inform investors of all stripes. Cornell researchers have discovered it can also inform the algorithm behind a new financial predicting model.” Good afternoon, Internet…
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July 16, 2023 at 12:39AM
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