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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1252928/social-media-are-flooded-with-ai-spam-especially-linkedin-browsing-data-suggests

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1252818/connecting-an-lg-monitor-to-a-windows-pc-trigger-the-silent-unprompted-installation-of-a

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

cross-posted from: https://toast.ooo/post/12317935

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/42334724

Patreon announced on Thursday that it’s partnering with Cloudflare to block crawlers from stealing creators’ work to train AI models.

“I HAVE A KICKASS PRODUCT UPDATE FOR YOU ALL!” Jack Conte, the founder and CEO of Patreon, wrote in a post on Instagram with the superimposed text, “POV: you're CEO of one of these fucking tech companies, so you do what you want.”

“Patreon has partnered with an internet infrastructure company called Cloudflare to block Al training crawlers from using the work you publish on your Patreon to train their Al models,” Conte wrote. “This is live and happening at the network level on all posts published on Patreon.”

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1251255/mit-researcher-proposes-a-way-to-detect-nuclear-weapons-in-space

A nuclear detonation in low-Earth orbit — the region about 100 miles to 1,200 miles above Earth’s surface — would release trillions of highly energetic electrons that would destroy many of the satellites in space, disrupting telecommunications networks, GPS, space-based internet, and more

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2604.03136: StoryScope: Investigating idiosyncrasies in AI fiction

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1251227/eu-parliament-greenlights-chat-control-1-0-breyer-our-children-lose-out

The lone exception is Pudding in a Cloud because it's delicious.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/49222458

Surprise Surprise ;)

"But some users have voiced concerns that TikTok’s almighty algorithm doesn’t seem to incorporate negative feedback very well. Even when they don’t watch a suggested video or click the “not interested” feature, they keep seeing those videos on their FYP. Northwestern University computer scientists put those suspicions to the test. According to their recent paper, the engagement signals do have an effect, but only temporarily. Then the algorithm gradually relapses unless a user consistently gives the same feedback over and over again."

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/49222005

Classic move ;)

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1250359/john-deere-owners-will-get-the-right-to-repair-their-own-equipment-under-a-new-ftc-settl