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[Link] Cops Tried Playing Disney Music to Censor a Video

Read: 10/4/2022 www.vice.com

This time, it’s Disney. Around 11 p.m. on Monday in Santa Ana, a city just south of Los Angeles, a YouTuber with a channel called Santa Ana Audits started recording a group of police investigating a car theft in his neighborhood.

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[Link] Google Features YTS and 123movies as “Best Movie Websites”

Read: 2/2/2022 torrentfreak.com

Google's algorithms have made life a lot more convenient for many people, but they sometimes lead to peculiar results. When searching for the best movie websites, the search engine features pirate sites including YTS and 123movies in related searches.

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[Link] OK, So Facebook Is Bad. Now What?

Read: 15/11/2021 www.vice.com

Evidence has been mounting for years that Facebook is harmful for its users. Countless reports have documented how the company’s algorithms push people toward radicalization, allow extremist movements to grow, and spread misinformation on an unprecedented scale. 

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[Link] Top Google Result for NFT Marketplace OpenSea Was a Phishing Site

Read: 11/11/2021 www.vice.com

Earlier this week, if you Googled “OpenSea” looking for the eponymous NFT marketplace, you might have found what looks like the site right at the top of Google.

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[Link] ‘Yeah, we’re spooked’: AI starting to have big real-world impact, says expert

Read: 31/10/2021 www.theguardian.com

A scientist who wrote a leading textbook on artificial intelligence has said experts are “spooked” by their own success in the field, comparing the advance of AI to the development of the atom bomb.

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[Link] Video Games, Exams, Hit Dramas: What’s Getting Banned in China

Read: 1/9/2021 www.vice.com

Lots of things are getting banned in China, as the government uses its far-reaching power to crack down on what it deems harmful practices across Chinese society, from education to entertainment to the tech industry.

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[Link] Nazis and incels are using Gotye and MGMT to evade TikTok's auto-moderators, report finds

Read: 25/8/2021 www.abc.net.au

While it's hardly surprising fringe groups have used social media platforms to post hateful material, experts say TikTok has birthed creative ways to distribute the content and avoid auto-takedowns.

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[Link] AI Can Guess Your Race Based On X-Rays, and Researchers Don't Know How

Read: 23/8/2021 www.vice.com

As the U.S. Food and Drug Administration considers opening the door to a wider array of artificially intelligent medical devices, new research suggests that medical AI systems can perpetuate racial bias in health care in ways humans don’t understand and can’t detect.

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[Link] Black-Box Attacks on Perceptual Image Hashes with GANs

Read: 7/8/2021 towardsdatascience.com

A Perceptual image hash (PIH) is a short hexadecimal string (e.g. ‘00081c3c3c181818’ ) based on an image’s appearance. Perceptual image hashes, despite being hashes, are not cryptographically secure hashes.

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[Link] YouTube recommends videos that violate its own policies, study finds

Read: 27/7/2021 thenextweb.com

Writer at Neural by TNW — Thomas covers AI in all its iterations. Likes Werner Herzog films and Arsenal FC.

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