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[Link] Model Claims She Was Turned Into a Sex Doll Without Her Permission

Read: 13/1/2022 www.vice.com

The doll has the same dark hair, glasses, lip freckle, and name as her. The company, called Irontech, claims that this was all a coincidence.  She first posted publicly about the doll in July 2019, on Instagram.

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[Link] Clearview AI ordered to delete all facial recognition data belonging to Australians

Read: 14/11/2021 www.theverge.com

Controversial facial recognition firm Clearview AI has been ordered to destroy all images and facial templates belonging to individuals living in Australia by the country’s national privacy regulator.

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[Link] Meet M6 — 10 Trillion Parameters at 1% GPT-3’s Energy Cost

Read: 14/11/2021 towardsdatascience.com

On June 25, Alibaba DAMO Academy (the R&D branch of Alibaba) announced they had built M6, a large multimodal, multitasking language model with 1 trillion parameters — already 5x GPT-3’s size, which serves as the standard to measure the rate of progress for large AI models.

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[Link] Why Do I Hate the Way I Look in Every Photo?

Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com

It's not that you're not hot. So... what is it, then? How to actually stop doing the things you know aren't exactly good for you.

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