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Multiple readings Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras Concern & critique · 3 attributable reactions Multiple readings Dots are OpenAI Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions Shared emphasis Dox for Me, O Muse Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions +1 more reaction maps further down
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New AI field signal Signal 1h ago
⚡ 8 h early

Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras

4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Joseph Cox, Jason Koebler
“New from 404 Media: a surveillance company is telling cops it wants to add facial recognition to Flock cameras. Flock doesn't do face rec, but that doesn't stop other companies doing it. "This is the way the world is going, the way the world will have to be…” evidence ↗
4 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
404 Media Hypervisible Joseph Cox Jason Koebler
Primary source 404media.co ↗
Accelerating Models & releases Release 20h ago
⚡ 4 h early
OpenAI Dots product announced

Dots are OpenAI

3 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Mark Riedl
“OpenAI: AI is an existential threat to humankind. Also OpenAI: see how cute these little guys are? www.engadget.com/2272230/dots...” evidence ↗
3 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Mark Riedl Hypervisible Damien Williams
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“OpenAI: AI is an existential threat to humankind. Also OpenAI: see how cute these little guys are? www.engadget.com/2272230/dots...”

Building & implementation

1 expert

How teams are shipping and applying it.

““What if we released malware represented in the form of a cute avatar” is an actual business plan now.”

Primary source engadget.com ↗
New AI field signal Analysis 17h ago
AI doxxing assistance essay

Dox for Me, O Muse

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Hypervisible , Andrew Couts
““…Muse can be easily prompted to compile dossiers on Facebook and Instagram accounts belonging to members of vulnerable groups – including undocumented immigrants, transgender teachers, poll workers, Iranian dissidents, and women who said they had ordered a…” evidence ↗
3 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Hypervisible Andrew Couts VE, cybersocial occult investigator
How the network is reacting 2 experts are emphasizing concern & critique.
Shared emphasis

Concern & critique

2 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

““…Muse can be easily prompted to compile dossiers on Facebook and Instagram accounts belonging to members of vulnerable groups – including undocumented immigrants, transgender teachers, poll workers, Iranian dissidents, and women who said they had ordered a…”

Primary source hntrbrk.com ↗
Developing Safety & security Analysis 1d ago
⚡ 52 h early
AI safety factions debate NPR guide

The AI safety debate is confusing. Here's our guide to the different factions

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Timnit Gebru
“All of this media on "takes on rogue AI" or whatever, is all the billionaires (newly minted or old), people doing so-called "AI safety" getting hundreds of millions claiming to save us from extinction, and then me playing in my kiddy pool with my pretend do…” evidence ↗
3 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Timnit Gebru Olivia Guest Hypervisible

“All of this media on "takes on rogue AI" or whatever, is all the billionaires (newly minted or old), people doing so-called "AI safety" getting hundreds of millions claiming to save us from extinction, and then me playing in my kiddy pool with my pretend do…”

2 experts discussed this · 7 posts
Timnit Gebru: All of this media on "takes on rogue AI" or whatever, is all the billionaires (newly minted or old), people doing so-called "AI safety" getting hundreds of millions claiming to save us from extinct…
Timnit Gebru: Or have a "world models" startup that gets $2B and then gets acquired by AMD for $8B without producing anything as my advisor apparently did 🤔
wells: and the way you're able to make so much more of an actual impact than any of them with their billions in funding !!
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Primary source npr.org ↗
Established AI field signal Development 3d ago
⚡ 9 h early

Meta’s Muse Is Adults-Only. Why Does It Look Like a Kids’ Toy?

5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Reece
““Agents like Muse are trying to convince us they’re just a cute little guy who lives in your pocket, and definitely not an always-open portal into the servers of a major surveillance company,” says @jathansadowski.com. My weekend report for @wired.com: www.…” evidence ↗
5 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Hypervisible Damien Williams Luke Stark Jathan Sadowski Reece

““Agents like Muse are trying to convince us they’re just a cute little guy who lives in your pocket, and definitely not an always-open portal into the servers of a major surveillance company,” says @jathansadowski.com. My weekend report for @wired.com: www.…”

Primary source wired.com ↗
Established Safety & security Development 5d ago
⚡ 4 h early
Meta Muse zero-day vulnerability disclosed

Muse, Meta's extraordinarily privileged AI assistant, has a serious 0-day

5 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Pavel
“Sure, on the one hand Muse doesn't really do anything, but on the other hand it opens up a massive attack surface on literally all your shit” evidence ↗
5 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Hypervisible Karl Bode Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র Pavel Veni Kunche
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“Sure, on the one hand Muse doesn't really do anything, but on the other hand it opens up a massive attack surface on literally all your shit”

Policy & governance

1 expert

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“"it’s like they didn’t, in my opinion, think about security, which is really worrisome." yeah, weird, man. I'm sure regulators will handle it.”

Primary source arstechnica.com ↗
Developing AI field signal Signal 1d ago

Facial recognition technology is scarier than you think

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Hypervisible
““Alongside valid privacy concerns, there is a persistent inequity in how facial recognition is deployed: it’s disproportionately used to manage vulnerable populations like migrants and refugees.”” evidence ↗
2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Hypervisible Woodrow Hartzog

““Alongside valid privacy concerns, there is a persistent inequity in how facial recognition is deployed: it’s disproportionately used to manage vulnerable populations like migrants and refugees.””

Primary source macleans.ca ↗
Established AI field signal Analysis 5d ago
⚡ 5 h early

What Mark Zuckerberg needs to answer about Meta Glasses, Muse, and teen safety

3 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Hypervisible
““So I think one of the reasons the entire tech industry is so eager to fit these passive surveillance devices into the same kind of mental framework as smartphones is so that no one has to question whether there should be a new social etiquette for these de…” evidence ↗
3 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Hypervisible Luke Stark nilay patel

““So I think one of the reasons the entire tech industry is so eager to fit these passive surveillance devices into the same kind of mental framework as smartphones is so that no one has to question whether there should be a new social etiquette for these de…”

Primary source theverge.com ↗
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5 experts · 6 posts · 1d ago
Hypervisible Christopher Mims Tim Carmody Neil Turkewitz Amy Hoy
Matches Concern & critique
“Indeed! And that they train AI on data captured without consent or compensation in a process known as (text & data) mining! They don’t even work to try to hide the exploitative colonialist narrative.” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Building & implementation · 1
Hypervisible : Technology enthusiasts severely overestimate the average person’s desire or willingness or capacity to build and use AI agents. I understand some work roles that could mandate or encourage it but t…
Tim Carmody: Also the AI agents on the market (even/especially Muse, the new popular agent for nontechnical people) are too powerful, suck up too much data, and have too lax permissions for regular folks who do…
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4 experts · 15 posts · 6d ago
Olivia Guest Hypervisible Luke Stark VE, cybersocial occult investigator
Matches Concern & critique
“One of my long-standing complaints with the pro-AI world is how their complaint that anti-AI people and the left "need better critics" is clearly a reflection of themselves not having read the actu…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Building & implementation · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: One of my long-standing complaints with the pro-AI world is how their complaint that anti-AI people and the left "need better critics" is clearly a reflection of themselves not having read the actu…
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: It's way easier to shadowbox with a guy you made up in your head than to do the reading and engage with it honestly, but you do you.
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