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

china A Wechat-based "mobile court" presided over by a chatbot has handled 3m legal procedures since March Cory Doctorow

security Model stealing, rewarding hacking and poisoning attacks: a taxonomy of machine learning's failure modes Cory Doctorow

AI Second wave Algorithmic Accountability: from "What should algorithms do?" to "Should we use an algorithm?" Cory Doctorow

Funny Cards Against Humanity's Thanksgiving livestream pits a machine learning model against human joke writers Cory Doctorow

machine learning Networked authoritarianism may contain the seeds of its own undoing Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Tiny alterations in training data can introduce "backdoors" into machine learning models Cory Doctorow

Copyfight How to recognize AI snake oil Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Naomi Kritzer's "Catfishing on the CatNet": an AI caper about the true nature of online friendship Cory Doctorow

machine learning This software can clone a person's voice by listening to a 5-second sample Mark Frauenfelder

music New software separates vocals and instruments in recorded music Mark Frauenfelder

Gadgets Report from a massive Chinese surveillance tech expo, where junk-science "emotion recognition" rules Cory Doctorow

Copyfight "Affordances": a new science fiction story that climbs the terrible technology adoption curve Cory Doctorow

Kids Educational spyware company to school boards: hire us to spy on your kids and we'll help you sabotage teachers' strikes Cory Doctorow

security Researchers think that adversarial examples could help us maintain privacy from machine learning systems Cory Doctorow

books Rage Inside the Machine: an insightful, brilliant critique of AI's computer science, sociology, philosophy and economics Cory Doctorow

machine learning Announcement of Tumblr's sale to WordPress classified as pornography by Tumblr's notorious "adult content" filter Cory Doctorow

scholarship Training bias in AI "hate speech detector" means that tweets by Black people are far more likely to be censored Cory Doctorow

machine learning Ad copy written with AI outperformed human-written copy Mark Frauenfelder