Business How to beat AI facial expression software for screening job seekers: "smile with your eyes" Mark Frauenfelder
algorithmic bureaucracy New York Times writer is shocked to see how much a social trust scoring system knows about her Mark Frauenfelder
algorithmic bureaucracy Facebook isn’t free speech, it’s "algorithmic amplification optimized for outrage" Mark Frauenfelder
algorithmic bureaucracy Getting deplatformed from Apple. “Your account has been permanently disabled. There is nothing else you can do, there is no escalation path.” Mark Frauenfelder
Reviews Ta-Nehisi Coates's "Black Panther and the Crew" is a powerfully relevant superhero story about Black lives, police brutality, and US history Thom Dunn
facebook Over 30 ex-Facebook employees slam Zuckerberg's inaction on harmful political posts in open letter Carla Sinclair
copyright A pair of musicians recorded every possible MIDI melody just to get around copyright law Thom Dunn
Business BLS to remove computers from data 'lockups,' chief denies it's aimed at Michael Bloomberg Xeni Jardin
fake news The New Deal was partly motivated by a desire to kill the fake news epidemic of the Gilded Age Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Machine learning is innately conservative and wants you to either act like everyone else, or never change Cory Doctorow
security Facebook & Twitter ban pro-Trump network that reached 55 million accounts with AI-generated faces, Epoch Media Group and Falun Gong links identified Xeni Jardin
elections A vast network of shadowy news sites promote conservative talking points mixed with floods of algorithmically generated "news" Cory Doctorow
privacy AI Now's annual report: stop doing "emotion detection"; stop "socially sensitive" facial recognition; make AI research diverse and representative — and more Cory Doctorow
twitter German researchers with ties to for-profit "neuromarketing" company want to use AI to guess peoples' "intelligence" from their writing Cory Doctorow
AI Second wave Algorithmic Accountability: from "What should algorithms do?" to "Should we use an algorithm?" Cory Doctorow
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