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With the increasing use of Meta Glasses I am starting to be concerned by being filmed by students. Has anyone heard of guidance from universities about this? Of course, this is something the union should lead but they have been useless about AI. www.theguardian.com/technology/…
Did someone wearing Meta Glasses film you today? Are you sure? theguardian.com
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- Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses use a small white LED to signal recording, but the Guardian says it is easy to miss in daylight.
- The paper points to a grey market of modified glasses whose recording light has been disabled entirely.
- A Swedish investigation cited by the Guardian found glasses footage, including intimate home recordings, was reviewed by contractors in Nairobi to train Meta's AI.
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What are the odds that OpenAI, a company whose whole business model is to steal from everyone and who has journalists write articles/books on how Sam Altman is a serial liar, would then steal company secrets from the company it's in partnership with? Ask Apple 😉 techcrunch.com…
Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft | TechCrunch techcrunch.com
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- io Products, Jony Ive's startup acquired by OpenAI for $6.4B, is named as a co-defendant, placing OpenAI's entire device roadmap under direct legal jeopardy.
- Tang Tan allegedly used Apple codenames during recruiting and directed candidates to bring unreleased hardware components to OpenAI 'show and tell' interviews.
- Apple alleges OpenAI coached departing employees on how to evade exit security protocols, pointing to institutional coordination rather than isolated misconduct.
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NEW: A glimpse at how AI image generators are used. Researchers set up a fake image editor on Hugging Face and within a week received 1,000 prompts. 73% of them were sexual and 83% of those were asking for people (women) to be “undressed”. Around 6% of the sexual requests also…
Hugging Face Has a Deepfake Nudes Problem wired.com
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"We’re watching all of this roll out as if we have no choice, as if it’s inevitable, as if AI is just something we’re going to have to adapt to". @rbreich.bsky.social in a 🔥 op-ed about how important it is to push back tech bros' AI inevitability narrative. www.theguardian.com…
Lost jobs, inequality, rogue agents: why are we accepting oligarchs’ AI agenda? | Robert Reich theguardian.com
"The findings raise questions about one of the most-hyped UK AI developments, and suggest a centrepiece of US-UK AI cooperation was in fact little more than a press release"... When hype meets reality case number too many to count... www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
OpenAI’s apparent failure to visit key site raises questions over UK investment theguardian.com
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Another day, another tech ceo needs to share his prediction about the future with us which is actually a really bad PR for their products. It's written so badly but with the confidence of a tech ceo douche, as usual. But let me just share 2 ridiculous paragraphs -> www.wsj.com…
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It is that simple.... "a new Technology in Schools Coalition, made up of students, educators, parent leaders, elected officials, advocates, union partners and experts in the field will convene to assess the impact of the moratorium and limited pilots". www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...
Mayor Mamdani and Chancellor Samuels Put Students First with Nation’s Broadest Generative AI Moratorium in Schools - NYC Mayor's Office nyc.gov
"The share option within Claude tells a user that 'anyone with the link' may view the contents of that link, but does not explicitly state that the link may end up in Google and search results." Internet scholars have been saying for years that ToS are flawed -> www.bbc.co.uk/…
Some people's chats with Claude AI found publicly available online bbc.co.uk
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Like seriously Ben fucking Affleck??? Who wants to ruin the film industry by having a grey screen where AI will create the background killing multiple film departments such as set deck, VFX, special effects, location, drivers, and more. Disgusting. restofworld.org/2026/netflix...
Netflix’s AI deal puts the global VFX workforce at risk restofworld.org
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-> It also sends signals to AI companies about what to expect in the following years where we will see big legal cases against data centres (you can be sure that if Erin Brockovich is on it there will be a big class action on the way) & AI chatbots. www.brockovichdatacenter.com
Brockovich Data Center Reporting – U.S. AI Data Center Awareness & Issue Map brockovichdatacenter.com
In today's our technologies are dangerous, you should regulate us and here is how, and also one of my employees just happen to say my company is irresponsible and I don't give a fuck about you, so I should probably say something to show I care about society... www.theguardian.…
‘We must slow the pace’: CEO of Anthropic calls for an AI slowdown theguardian.com
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