Black Aziz Anansi

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

reuters.com
AI Weekly's analysis
  • Twenty-six current and former Meta employees filed an anonymous suit in Oakland federal court alleging AI-assisted layoff selection disadvantaged workers with medical conditions.
  • The complaint names Metamate, an employee-trained 'second brain' tracking communications and documents, and a productivity score scanning keystrokes, screen content, emails and browser history.
  • Plaintiffs seek a preliminary ruling blocking layoffs scheduled to take effect July 22 while they pursue federal and state discrimination claims in private arbitration.
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Black Aziz Anansi reposted
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I could select a more recent example, but maybe not a more egregious one, of the many reasons not to do this.

Google contractors tricked homeless black people into face scans futurism.com
AI Weekly's analysis
  • Google hired staffing firm Randstad to collect face-scan data for its face-unlock feature, per a New York Daily News investigation.
  • Randstad supervisors reportedly instructed contractors to 'specifically' target homeless Black people in U.S. cities, offering $5 gift cards.
  • Contractors were told to frame the scans as a 'selfie game,' rush consent, and deny the phone was taking a video.
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Recent commentary

How long until there's a white savior movie where a white teacher has to teach a class of inner-city youths to forget their love of creating art and to focus on AI instead?

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I'll never forgive the ai freaks for making it so hot outside.

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Yo these devils really broke the internet...im watching a youtube ad where an AI generated nurse is telling men tk put hydrogen peroxide on their prenis while in the shower to get hard. The commercial was clearly written by AI because it made no sense, but she implies that her grandfather couldn't

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So im working with someone and i can't prove it but i think that they're relying on chatgpt to communicate with me...

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