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This is the latest #youtube "innovation". #Google with a market cap of $1.7 trillion and $120 billion cash on hand, "needs" to charge for ads on YouTube.

This is, of course, not true. They have more than enough revenue to run YouTube without ads in perpetuity, but they want to please shareholders. The #Peertube community is showing how you can distribute the costs of hosting content as well. If you don't support Google's continued monetization of monopolized video...vote with your feet.

#tech

Screenshot of YouTube homepage bothering users to disable ad blockers so that they can monetize them with intrusive advertisements.


‘The ‘non-profit start-up’ Thorn, founded by actor Ashton Kutcher, is a driving force behind the EU’s campaign to scan the net for child abuse material. Newly public documents and financial information obtained by Follow the Money reveal the blurred boundaries between Thorn’s do-good public face and the powerful business behind it.’

https://www.ftm.eu/articles/ashton-kutchers-non-profit-start-up-makes-millions-from-fighting-child-abuse-online
#tech #law #eu #privacy #surveillance #gdpr


The Luddites weren’t backward technophobes. They saw factory owners using tech to degrade their livelihoods and they fought back — first by trying to negotiate, then writing to Parliament, and finally smashing the machines.

As workers today organize and strike over bosses using digital tech to upend their industries, there’s a lot we can learn from the Luddites’ story. I was thrilled to dig into it with @brianmerchant!

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1004689/13638517-the-real-history-of-the-luddites-w-brian-merchant

#tech #history #luddite #workers


We often hear about the challenges facing San Francisco, but we don’t hear nearly enough about how tech billionaires wield their power to serve themselves even if it means making life for everyone else harder.

On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with SF District 5 Supervisor @deanpreston about the robotaxi chaos in the city and the many ways the tech industry tries to shape local politics for their ends.

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1004689/13544176-how-tech-wields-its-power-in-san-francisco-w-dean-preston

#tech #sf #politics


Venture capitalists are parasites that deploy harmful technologies in the name of profit and control. Now they’re fueling AI hype not to improve the world, but to make a quick buck.

On #TechWontSaveUs, Edward Ongweso Jr. outlines why we need to abolish venture capital if we have any hope of creating better technology and actually improving people’s lives.

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1004689/13377584-abolish-venture-capital-w-edward-ongweso-jr

#tech #ai #vc #finance


A Ton Of Folks Don’t Know What ‘Right To Repair’ Is, But Strongly Support It Once They Do https://www.techdirt.com/2023/07/21/a-ton-of-folks-dont-know-what-right-to-repair-is-but-strongly-support-it-once-they-do/ #RightToRepair #technology #tech


Musk failed to get the necessary permits to change Twitter’s building signage to X, and the police shut it down just in time for “er” to remain. #twitter #tech #elonmusk #x #twittermigration #twitterlogo #elon #musk
Pic of twitter Hq with sign coming down


The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training

#tech #technology #news #technews #internet #Brave #Bravebrowser #ChatGPT

https://stackdiary.com/brave-selling-copyrighted-data-for-ai-training/


Israel has had Palestinians under occupation for decades, and that allows weapons companies to test and develop new technologies on them that can then be sold abroad.

On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke to Antony Loewenstein about how that tech is developed, what it means for Palestinians, and how the Israeli government uses oppressive tech for diplomatic leverage.

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1004689/13212302-how-israel-uses-occupation-to-develop-military-tech-w-antony-loewenstein

#tech #israel #weapons #military


The influencer industry is huge today, but how did it take over social media and the cultural sector?

On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke to Emily Hund about the social and economic forces that created the industry and how it still depends on precarity all these years later. It’s a fascinating conversation that also considered where it goes next!

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1004689/12994172-the-influencer-industry-is-built-on-precarity-w-emily-hund

#tech #socialmedia #culture


Dawniej to były czasy... Teroz nima czasów

Dzień dobry 😎
#retro #tech


What is your favorite tech innovation?

#tech #ideas #innovation #satire #humor

  • Illegal cab company (12%, 25 votes)
  • Illegal hotel chain (11%, 22 votes)
  • Fake money for criminals (34%, 69 votes)
  • Plagiarism machine (42%, 84 votes)
200 voters. Poll end: 1 year ago


Dzień dobry...;) Kto pamięta pamięta 👇😎

#retro #tech
Neostrada


So Google is now preventing people from removing location data from photos taken with Pixel phones.

Remember when Google's corporate motto was "don't be evil?"

Obviously, accurate location data on photos is more useful to a data mining operation like Google.

From Google: "Important: You can only update or remove estimated locations. If the location of a photo or video was automatically added by your camera, you can't edit or remove the location."

It's enshitification in action.

Source: https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6153599?hl=en&sjid=8103501961576262529-AP

#technology #tech @technology #business #enshitification #Android #Google @pluralistic #infosec


A few absolute shockers in the list of websites the Washington Post has revealed are used to train Google's generative AI tools. Apparently including the likes of 4Chan, Breitbart, and RT.

From WaPo:

"Meanwhile, we found several media outlets that rank low on NewsGuard’s independent scale for trustworthiness: RT.com No. 65, the Russian state-backed propaganda site; breitbart.com No. 159, a well-known source for far-right news and opinion; and vdare.com No. 993, an anti-immigration site that has been associated with white supremacy.

"The top Christian site, Grace to You (gty.org No. 164), belongs to Grace Community Church, an evangelical megachurch in California. Christianity Today recently reported that the church counseled women to 'continue to submit' to abusive fathers and husbands and to avoid reporting them to authorities."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/ai-chatbot-learning/

#technology #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #GenerativeAI #Google #tech #news @technology @politics #trans #lgbtqia #lgbtq


Since the hype around AI accelerated, a lot of people have been looking for meaning in the text generated by large language models and tools like ChatGPT. But that doesn’t mean they’re intelligent, and there’s a real danger in thinking they are.

On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with @emilymbender about how these technologies work, why they don’t reflect how humans use language, but why we want to believe they’re talking to us.

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1004689/12640803-chatgpt-is-not-intelligent-w-emily-m-bender

#tech #ai #chatgpt #generativeai #llm #podcast


The Silicon Valley Bank collapse is part of a broader weakness in the tech industry, and shows us why venture capitalists aren’t the brilliant minds they want us to believe.

This week on #TechWontSaveUs, I chat with Jacob Silverman about what SVB reveals about the state of the industry and why the end of low interest rates could be a serious challenge.

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1004689/12489566-everyone-hates-vcs-after-the-svb-collapse-w-jacob-silverman

#tech #svb #siliconvalleybank


There’s a lot of hype about AI and its potential, but are we asking the right questions about its potential consequences?

This week on #TechWontSaveUs, I speak to Dan McQuillan about how AI promotes ranking populations and austerity policies, and the risks that come with its emergence coinciding with the growth of far-right policies.

Listen to the full episode: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1004689/12380621-why-we-must-resist-ai-w-dan-mcquillan

#ai #tech #politics #chatgpt


Pssss... A to pamiętacie..?;) Kto wie, do czego to służyło ;)

#retro #Technology #tech


“Automated” fast food restaurants and AI tools like ChatGPT have people worried robots will take our jobs.

For Insider, I explain the industry is using technology to hide human workers and make work more precarious. It’s not eliminating the need for human labor.

https://www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-ai-will-not-take-jobs-create-future-work-opportunities-2023-2

#tech #ai #automation #work


Before Tesla, Elon Musk launched a company called X(dot)com that he hoped would upend the banking system. It didn’t, but he never gave up on the idea.

In November, he outlined a vision for Twitter that effectively tries to replicate his old vision by grafting it onto the ailing social media platform. I explain why it’s doomed to fail and what it tells us about Elon Musk.

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/elon-musk-wants-to-relive-his-start

#tech #elonmusk #twitter


After Tesla’s share price plummeted last year, it won’t be any surprise to hear the company’s in trouble, but from growing EV competition to increased scrutiny on Autopilot, that’s only the beginning.

This week on #TechWontSaveUs, @niedermeyer joins me for a deep dive into Tesla, the challenges the company is facing, and why it’s so hard to get away from Elon Musk.

Listen to the full episode: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1004689/12208956-the-tesla-crash-is-only-beginning-w-edward-niedermeyer

#tech #tesla #elonmusk #ev


Streaming upended the business model of Hollywood, but it’s also had a major impact on workers in the industry.

This week on #TechWontSaveUs, I speak to @anousha about upcoming contract negotiations and why the Writers Guild could go on strike for the first time since 2007.

Listen to the full episode: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1004689/12160126-why-hollywood-writers-may-strike-over-streaming-w-anousha-sakoui

#tech #streaming #film #tv


Wait, so you’re telling me that AIs trained on real humans’ writing just end up being plagiarism machines, spitting that work back out with some rephrasing and no credit? I’m shocked!

Great work by @jonchristian on this story:

https://futurism.com/cnet-ai-plagiarism

#ai #tech #cnet


LastPass Sibling Company GoTo Loses Encrypted Backups to Hackers

The hacker also stole an encryption key for a portion of the encrypted backups by accessing a cloud storage database shared by both LastPass and GoTo.

#news #tech #technology #security #privacy #Lastpass #breach #hacking

https://www.pcmag.com/news/lastpass-sibling-company-goto-loses-encrypted-backups-to-hackers


Make no mistake, the tsunami of #tech #layoffs is not about the recession. It’s about striking back at “uppity” labor, after they enjoyed a shift in the balance of power from #remotework and DEI #activism .

These companies are reporting record profits. Inflation is just cover. It’s because they can, because there’s social cover for it, because there’s money left on the table and having “some” money isn’t enough.

It’s nothing short of class warfare.


The hype around AI tools like ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion is in overdrive right now, but what is its actual impact likely to be?

This week on #TechWontSaveUs, I chat with @timnitGebru about the misleading framing of AI, why she started doing this research, and how she ended up getting fired by Google. It’s a must listen!

Tune in here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1004689/12073262-don-t-fall-for-the-ai-hype-w-timnit-gebru

#ai #tech #podcast #chatgpt


ChatGPT gets treated like technological magic, but that ignores the humans behind the curtain that make it function.

OpenAI paid Sama to hire Kenyan workers at $1.32 to $2 an hour to review “child sexual abuse, bestiality, murder, suicide, torture, self harm, and incest” content. Their work made the tool less toxic, but left them mentally scarred. The company ended the contract when they found out TIME was digging into their practices.

https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/

#tech #chatgpt #ai


In this interview, the author explains she got ChatGPT to spit out writing in the style of authors she knows because it trained on their work without permission, then says it’s the written version of what’s more apparent with image AIs.

She says she’d never use it that way. Then, not long after, she says she used DALL-E to generate part of a book cover so she wouldn’t have to pay a photographer.

https://www.theverge.com/23520625/chatgpt-openai-amazon-kindle-novel

#tech #chatgpt #writing


Consent, a quick guide for tech bros:

Opt-out: I just stuck my ice cream cone in your mouth, you can remove it if you don’t like it.

Opt-in: Would you like some ice cream?

#consent #tech #technology #techBros #optIn #optOut #iceCream


This just in: Dystopian science fiction will no longer be sold or streamed in the San Francisco Bay Area or Silicon Valley due to the high risk of it inspiring new tech startups. #tech #scifi


Who gets to shape the future?

Sometimes people ask why we should bother thinking about the future when there are so many pressing issues in the present. But as @roseveleth explains in this week’s episode of #TechWontSaveUs, tech billionaires want us to buy into their ideas for the future, and we need to push back with better alternatives!

Listen to our conversation: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1004689/11975314-why-tech-billionaires-want-to-shape-our-future-w-rose-eveleth

#tech #future #podcast


This is apparently the tweet that led to my suspension from Twitter. Right as I was reinstated they announced a new policy that they apparently found me to have retroactively violated
#twittermigration #twitterexodus #twitter #news #elonmusk #tech #technews #technology
Links of my social channels
New policy saying you can’t promote other social channels


TikTok pushes potentially harmful content to users as often as every 39 seconds, study says

#TikTok recommends self-harm and eating disorder content to some users within minutes of joining the platform, according to a new report published Wednesday by the Center for Countering Digital Hate ( #CCDH ).

#news #technology #tech #security #china

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tiktok-pushes-potentially-harmful-content-to-users-as-often-as-every-39-seconds-study/


Now imagine if Mastodon didn’t exist and this was happening.…

Aren’t we lucky that some guy in Germany decided to spend his own time, money, and effort to build it?

Hopefully we’ll get lucky again…

Or, you know, maybe we can finally consider supporting tech that’s in the common good from the common purse. And fund organisations and long-term development, not just ad-hoc academic “projects” that get abandoned the moment the money is gone.

https://ar.al/2019/11/29/the-future-of-internet-regulation-at-the-european-parliament/

#funding #tech #eu #commons


As the tech industry moves from boom to bust, an increasingly reactionary set of tech CEOs are waging a campaign against workers to reset expectations of labor in the sector.

On this week’s #TechWontSaveUs, Wendy Liu returns to discuss this shift and how executives are emboldened by Elon Musk’s actions since taking over Twitter.

Listen to the full episode: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1004689/11871797-tech-billionaires-are-coming-for-workers-w-wendy-liu

#tech #podcast #elonmusk


📅 MARK YOUR CALENDARS 🥳

On December 18, I’ll be breaking down the year in tech in a livestream with @bcmerchant, @hypervisible, and @xoxogossipgita — exclusively for #TechWontSaveUs supporters!

We’ll be discussing the wildest stories of the year, the worst tech CEOs, what we’re looking to in 2023, and much more!

Want to join us? Sign up to support the show: https://patreon.com/techwontsaveus

#podcast #tech #livestream
The Year in Tech with Paris Marx, Brian Merchant, Chris Gilliard, and Gita Jackson. On December 18 at 1pm ET, 4pm PT, 9pm GMT. Livestream for supporters. Sign up on Patreon.


From the early days of the internet to the dot-com boom to the period after the 2008 recession, we’re constantly distracted by utopian visions for what digital technology might deliver instead of critical assessing them.

On this week’s #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke to @Rushkoff about why it’s time for us to wake up and challenge the power and self-serving narratives of the tech billionaires — before it’s too late.

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1004689/11828681-trusting-tech-billionaires-is-a-recipe-for-disaster-w-douglas-rushkoff

#tech #siliconvalley #podcast #politics