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Friday, April 12, 2024

How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I.

 A store owner caught well-dressed women shoplifting—then posted the videos to TikTok The San Francisco Standard


Tough luck, bosses, AI is coming for your job, tooThe Register. I’ve never understood why this use case wasn’t top of mind…



New York City to pay $17.5 million for forcing women to remove hijabs for mug shots Reuters

How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I. NYT (Furzy Mouse). “Cut corners” + “harvest” = “steal.”


How AI risks creating a ‘black box’ at the heart of US legal system The Hill. “Code is Law.” See NC 2012, and 2012.


Generative AI as Shakespearean tragedy Marcus on AI


Artificial Intelligence–Generated Draft Replies to Patient Inbox Messages JAMA. It does seem that one of the attractions of AI is the possibility that clients or customers will never be able to interact with an actual human, no matter at how many removes.


Blind internet users struggle with error-prone AI aids FT


Startups Weekly: Let’s see what those Y Combinator kids have been up to this timeTechCrunch. Must we?