tardigrada

tardigrada@beehaw.org
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Venezuela, China, Biden and extraterrestrials: the disinformation of AI becomes widespread

Venezuela, China, Biden and extraterrestrials: the disinformation of AI becomes widespread (techxplore.com)

The study quoted in the article is largely based on an investigation in the Dutch city of Rotterdam which is obviously using these algorithms. What is not mentioned, though, is that in 2020 a Dutch court ruled that a government system that uses artificial intelligence to identify potential welfare fraudsters is illegal:

Privacy groups, the Netherlands' largest trade union federation and several Dutch citizens sued the government after SyRI was introduced in 2014... They argued the system violates human rights because it [...] created a "surveillance regime" that disproportionately targeted poorer citizens.

Very interesting, thanks for this :-)

The Breadth of the Fediverse

The Breadth of the Fediverse (eff.org)

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I'd agree with @jabberati here that ChatGPT is not (yet?) a threat to software engineers. Although these tools are impressive, they appear to produce inefficient (though not necessarily incorrect) code. This means that you still need human coders when you want to build something really complex. Having that said, I'm wondering whether this tech has the potential to make a programmer's work a bit easier.

Register an account and click "Make a contribution" (although you don't). You should receive an email confirming that you successfully booked a ticket. (The only thing I don't understand is that a site like opencollective.com is using Cloudflare if I may say so.)

There is not (yet) a program for tge event unfortunately.