Black Aziz Anansi

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404 Media @404media.co

EXCLUSIVE: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Investigation by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social here: www.404medi…

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility 404media.co
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  • 404 Media hid an Apple AirTag in a roughly 1,000-book order sold on Biblio and followed it to an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas.
  • The shipment terminated at Amazon's LAS8 site at 5801 Nicco Way, home to a team called VGT3 whose logo is a Tyrannosaurus rex clutching an open book.
  • Amazon told the outlet it 'purchases books through commercial channels'; the company classes its Nova family of models as 'frontier.'
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social

New: an AI company now lets cops identify specific houses, using data from Zillow and Airbnb, based on a single photo. It's part of Raven, previously called Geospy. Company previously demoed its tools to catch people vandalizing Flock cameras or protesters www.404media.co/ai-c…

AI Company Lets Cops Pinpoint Specific Houses Based on a Single Interior Photo 404media.co
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  • Graylark Technologies' Raven, previously GeoSpy, identifies specific homes from one interior photo by matching features to Airbnb, Zillow and Vrbo listings.
  • The Los Angeles Police Department and the Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office have purchased access, with Miami-Dade using a model trained for the county.
  • Miami-Dade said its use has been "limited and largely exploratory" and has produced no significant breakthroughs or arrests.
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@ajvicens.bsky.social

Meta used AI to target workers with medical conditions for layoffs, lawsuit claims - www.reuters.com/world/meta-u...

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app

Companies are all in on selling folks the idea that it’s in your best interest for your products to “know you” as if you are getting a dedicated servant but what you are really getting is a spy.

GM to launch its own in-vehicle AI system later this year cnbc.com
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  • GM plans to launch a proprietary in-vehicle AI assistant later this year that goes beyond its recently deployed Google Gemini rollout.
  • The native assistant will combine conversational AI with GM vehicle knowledge and OnStar intelligence, per director Anna Santos.
  • GM has already pushed Google Gemini to roughly 4 million model-year 2022 and newer Chevy, Cadillac, Buick and GMC vehicles.
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@jacobdavison.bsky.social

Instead of burning books on a big bonfire, the fascists are shredding them and stealing them. Absolutely disgusting. www.news.com.au/technology/o...

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@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

"Stanford University...is facing criticism for using generative AI to change the photo of a Hispanic male student into a non-existent Black woman for a campus banner." feels like a South Park episode. what are we doing here yall www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

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My aunt just called me wanting me to look over a legal letter that she generated via chatgpt. 😐

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