Algorithms Allegedly Penalized Black Renters. The US Government Is Watching
[ad_1] Two years ago, Mary Louis submitted an application to rent an apartment at Granada Highlands in Malden, Massachusetts. She liked that the unit had two full bathrooms and that…
I Think My Face Was Deepfaked Into a Chinese Camping Stove Ad
[ad_1] Lynn, who remains active on social media, thinks lack of education is a big issue. “Some people don’t even know that it’s not legal to use other people’s photos,”…
Algorithms Need Management Training, Too
[ad_1] The European Union is expected to finalize the Platform Work Directive, its new legislation to regulate digital labor platforms, this month. This is the first law proposed at the European…
Emotional AI Is No Substitute for Empathy
[ad_1] In 2023, emotional AI—technology that can sense and interact with human emotions—will become one of the dominant applications of machine learning. For instance, Hume AI, founded by Alan Cowen,…
The Dark Risk of Large Language Models
[ad_1] Causality will be hard to prove—was it really the words of the chatbot that put the murderer over the edge? Nobody will know for sure. But the perpetrator will…
The Internet Is at Risk of Driving Women Away
[ad_1] Unless we act, 2023 will be the year that women leave the internet. Women already face enormous risks online. A Pew Research report of a US survey shows that one-third…
The Spawn of ChatGPT Will Try to Sell You Things
[ad_1] Browder of DoNotPay is not the only person who sees ChatGPT and the technology behind it as a way to automate persuasion. One doctor posted a video on Twitter showing…
3 Ways to Tame ChatGPT
[ad_1] This year, we’ve seen the introduction of powerful generative AI systems that have the ability to create images and text on demand. At the same time, regulators are on…
These Algorithms Are Hunting for an EV Battery Mother Lode
[ad_1] “These things are hard to tip over,” geologist Wilson Bonner assures me as the four-wheeled all-terrain vehicle he’s piloting tilts suddenly sideways, pitching me toward the churned up mud…
ChatGPT’s Most Charming Trick Is Also Its Biggest Flaw
[ad_1] Like many other people over the past week, Bindu Reddy recently fell under the spell of ChatGPT, a free chatbot that can answer all manner of questions with stunning and…
‘Magic Avatar’ App Lensa Generated Nudes From My Childhood Photos
[ad_1] This weekend, the photo-editing app Lensa flooded social media with celestial, iridescent, and anime-inspired “magic avatars.” As is typical in our milkshake-duck internet news cycle, arguments as to why…
Your Google Searches Are Quietly Evolving. Here’s What’s Next
[ad_1] Changes to the way Google handles search rankings are intended to push up content from real people, not content farms optimizing content for search engines, and that works in…
Formerly Incarcerated Job Seekers Need More Than Training
[ad_1] Every year, 600,000 people leave prison, and many seek jobs. And because research suggests that quality employment can help prevent recidivism—not to mention that working is often part of…
Algorithms Quietly Run the City of Washington, DC—and Maybe Your Hometown
[ad_1] Washington, DC, is the home base of the most powerful government on earth. It’s also home to 690,000 people—and 29 obscure algorithms that shape their lives. City agencies use…
Meta Rethinks the Philosophy of the Facebook Feed
[ad_1] When I tell Facebook I want to see more or less of something, does that mean I’m telling it, for instance, that I don’t want to see politics? For…
Opendoor’s iBuyer Model Is a Canary in the Economic Coal Mine
[ad_1] And right now, Opendoor’s behavior, driven by the data it sees, augurs bad tidings ahead. “Right now, they’re trying to sell as much of their inventory as fast as…
Biden’s AI Bill of Rights Is Toothless Against Big Tech
[ad_1] Last year, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) announced that the US needed a bill of rights for the age of algorithms. Harms from artificial…
Tech Companies Are Reconsidering an Old Enemy
[ad_1] As the midterm election season kicks into high gear, platforms across the web will begin rolling out enhanced protections to guard against digital threats to the democratic process. While…
This Chatbot Aims to Steer People Away From Child Abuse Material
[ad_1] Using the chatbot is more direct and maybe more engaging, says Donald Findlater, the director of the Stop It Now help line run by the Lucy Faithfull Foundation. After…
This Student’s Side Project Will Help Decide Musk vs. Twitter
[ad_1] August 5 was not a normal day for Kaicheng Yang. It was the day after a US court published Elon Musk’s argument on why he should no longer have…
YouTube’s ‘Dislike’ Button Doesn’t Do What You Think
[ad_1] YouTube says its systems are working as they’re meant to. “Mozilla’s report doesn’t take into account how our systems actually work, and therefore it’s difficult for us to glean…
The Woman Who Became a Company Has Lessons for a Post-Roe World
[ad_1] In 2014, Jennifer Lyn Morone decided to protect her data in the only way she could as an individual: She incorporated herself. Jennifer Lyn Morone Inc. operates as a…
How to Stop Robots From Becoming Racist
[ad_1] In 2017, Holliday contributed to a RAND report warning that resolving bias in machine learning requires hiring diverse teams and cannot be fixed through technical means alone. In 2020,…
Wikipedia Articles Sway Some Legal Judgments
[ad_1] In 2005, the Irish Supreme Court ruled in favor of a woman who sued a landowner for compensation in 1997 after she lost her footing while watching the sunset…
Facebook’s New Feeds Tab Is an Algorithm-Free Zone
[ad_1] Have you visited your Facebook News Feed lately? If not, you’d be forgiven, and also in good company. The experience is overstuffed, a cornucopia of photos from vaguely familiar…