Not So Critical Update

Today we talk about Threads, the new competitor to Twitter from Meta / Instagram / Facebook / whatever they're called. We're not exactly fans, but if you enjoy it, good for you. Reactions are mixed - we talk about articles from @BBCNews: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-66155433, Jog Blog: https://jogblog.substack.com/p/facebooks-threads-is-so-depressing, and Privacy Nexus: https://privacy.thenexus.today/just-blocking-threads-isnt-enough/

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Today we talk about the FTC losing a case against Microsoft to prevent the sale of Blizzard Activision. Although it's still not over yet! Read more from @TheVerge here: https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/11/23779039/microsoft-activision-blizzard-ftc-trial-win.

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Today we talk about a crazy new law in France that lets police remotely enable cameras and microphones to spy on suspects (not convicted criminals!). Check out this article from @gizmodo on it here: https://gizmodo.com/france-bill-allows-police-access-phones-camera-gps-1850609772

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In this week's AI News Roundup, we talk about stories from (deep breath...):

@TheVerge on the "new web" (whatever that means): https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/26/23773914/ai-large-language-models-data-scraping-generation-remaking-web; @CNBC on OpenAI being sued for using copyright material: https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/9/23788741/sarah-silverman-openai-meta-chatgpt-llama-copyright-infringement-chatbots-artificial-intelligence-ai; a project on @GitHub that lets you train an LLM on your own documents: https://github.com/raghavan/PdfGptIndexer; and finally @AndroidAuthority on Cortana being removed (at last!) from Windows (although it's being replaced with some other AI chatbot thing): https://www.androidauthority.com/microsoft-kill-cortana-windows-3331248/

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Today we talk about further fantastic changes by Elon Musk at Twitter, including rate limiting the number of tweets that can be viewed, requiring a login to view posts, and code that accidentally attacked its own service. And wait, shouldn't we be talking about the new CEO? Some details on this at @TechCrunch here: https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/30/twitter-now-requires-an-account-to-view-tweets/

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Today we talk about further testing by @YouTube testing a hard ban for people who have used ad blocking more than a certain number of times. Will they win? Well, probably not, but it's a bit more complex than that... Check out this article on the topic here by @Engadget: https://www.engadget.com/youtube-test-threatens-to-block-viewers-if-they-continue-using-ad-blockers-053117556.html

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Today we talk about some unavoidable issues @Apple is facing with production of the newly-announce Apple Vision Pro "spatial computer". We discussed a newspaper article, but since it's paywalled, check out this article from @TechCrunch here: https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/03/apple-reportedly-slashes-vision-pro-production-pushes-back-cheaper-model/

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Today we talk about the decision to stop doing any extra work by the mods of the famous r/IAmA community in @reddit. You can read their announcement here: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/14nte7z/mod_post_the_future_of_iama/ 4,838 votes and 461 comments so far on Reddit and an article by @TheVerge covering the situation here: https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/1/23781306/reddit-moderators-iama-celebrity-ama

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Today we talk about OpenAI opening an office in the UK (@BBCNews: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-66041934), a company called Inflection raising $1.3B in funding (@Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2023/06/29/inflection-ai-raises-1-billion-for-chatbot-pi/), misleading news about Bluesky user data being used to train AIs (https://meow.social/@FluffyDeveloper/110649002252527983), and (duh) Google saying everything online is fair game for LLM training (@gizmodo: https://gizmodo.com/google-says-itll-scrape-everything-you-post-online-for-1850601486).

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Today we talk about the new "My AI" chatbot that Snap has forced on users, only allowing it to be removed if you pay for the service. Read @AdGuardEN's excellent blog post on the topic here: https://adguard.com/en/blog/my-ai-snapchat-bot-ads.html

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