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NEW RESOURCES
Canine Chronicles: Morris Animal Foundation’s Data Commons Offers Rich Database. “Morris Animal Foundation’s Golden Retriever Lifetime Study was launched in 2012 to better understand the risk factors for cancer and other diseases in dogs. Now, access to big data – over 51 million data points – from the Study is available through the Foundation’s Data Commons, a comprehensive, free resource for researchers interested in receiving and using longitudinal data from the Golden Retriever Lifetime Study to advance veterinary research.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Ars Technica: Reddit mods fear spam overload as BotDefense leaves “antagonistic” Reddit. “BotDefense, which helps removes rogue submission and comment bots from Reddit and which is maintained by volunteer moderators, is said to help moderate 3,650 subreddits. BotDefense’s creator told Ars Technica that the team is now quitting over Reddit’s ‘antagonistic actions’ toward moderators and developers, with concerning implications for spam moderation on some large subreddits like r/space.”
The Verge: The good version of TweetDeck is back, but for how long?. “Overnight, users across Twitter began reporting that the older, and much better, version of TweetDeck has returned. It was disabled last week when Twitter abruptly threw up a rate-limiting paywall and killed the legacy APIs that allowed the old version of the feature to function.” You can get it back via the TweetDeck settings.
USEFUL STUFF
TechCrunch: AudioPen is a great web app for converting your voice into text notes. “There are many note-taking apps, ranging from Apple Notes and Google Keep to Obsidian and Notion. Most of them use text as the primary input method and provide features around it. Developer Louis Pereira’s AudioPen app focuses on converting your voice to neat text-based notes.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
New York Times: Black Artists Say A.I. Shows Bias, With Algorithms Erasing Their History. “Many Black artists are finding evidence of racial bias in artificial intelligence, both in the large data sets that teach machines how to generate images and in the underlying programs that run the algorithms. In some cases, A.I. technologies seem to ignore or distort artists’ text prompts, affecting how Black people are depicted in images, and in others, they seem to stereotype or censor Black history and culture.”
StarTribune: A new medium for communicating with the dead: AI and chatbots. “This might sound like the episode of the science-fiction series ‘Black Mirror’ that explored a woman’s use of technology to create a virtual version of her dead boyfriend, with disturbing implications. But this is the very real way technology is helping people deal — or maybe not deal — with death.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
Krebs on Security: Who’s Behind the DomainNetworks Snail Mail Scam?. “If you’ve ever owned a domain name, the chances are good that at some point you’ve received a snail mail letter which appears to be a bill for a domain or website-related services. In reality, these misleading missives try to trick people into paying for useless services they never ordered, don’t need, and probably will never receive. Here’s a look at the most recent incarnation of this scam — DomainNetworks — and some clues about who may be behind it.”
WIRED: Generative AI in Games Will Create a Copyright Crisis. “In several years of experimentation with the tool, people have generated far more compelling D&D-esque narratives than mine, as well as videos like ‘I broke the AI in AI Dungeon with my horrible writing.’ It’s also conjured controversy, notably when users began prompting it to make sexually explicit content involving children. And as AI Dungeon—and tools like it—evolve, they will raise more difficult questions about authorship, ownership, and copyright.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
Los Angeles Times: Column: California and Canada absolutely must call Google’s and Facebook’s bluff on news. “California and Canada must absolutely not give in to the tech giants’ tantrum. This is a bluff, and not a particularly convincing one. For the sake of the beleaguered news industries in both places (yes, including this media outlet), the Canadian and Californian governments must absolutely call it.”
Nature: Computer algorithms infer gender, race and ethnicity. Here’s how to avoid their pitfalls. “Publications don’t usually include demographic data such as the gender, race and ethnicity of their authors; researchers impute them from people’s names using algorithms: ‘Molly’ is probably a woman, ‘Jeff’ is probably a man, and so on. Outside academia, these algorithms are widely used as well, to study harassment in online forums and infer the demographics of political donors, for instance. But what do these algorithms really do? And how reliable are they? We take a deep dive into this technology and its limitations in an article that we published in April in Nature Human Behaviour.” Good afternoon, Internet…
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July 10, 2023 at 12:02AM
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