That Day. 6 November 2024

Lads.

This week, i’ll leave ye with time to google ‘soothing sea sounds’ or something similar.

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Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, S. Korea: Court imposes 10-year sentence to perpetrator of deepfake crime distributed using Telegram 

BBC, Man charged over violent disorder in Harehills (not a super interesting story, but does note use of what is presumably retrospective facial recognition; Interestingly the constabulary distinguish using the facial recognition search function on the Police National Database from using retrospective facial recognition. Even though both are, retrospective, facial recognition searches).

New York Times, Generative A.I. Made All My Decisions for a Week. Here’s What Happened. (turns out i do clickbait too)

The Register, How to trick ChatGPT into writing exploit code using hex 

The Washington Post, The AI boom may unleash a global surge in electronic waste

Financial Times, Google and peers weigh an AI prisoner’s dilemma

The Guardian, Artificial intelligence – is it bad? Yes. But on the other hand it is also terrible | First Dog on the Moon 

The Conversation, Simple science summaries written by AI help people understand research and trust scientists 

Financial Times, Google is winning the AI search wars 

The Washington Post, How to use AI to help plan your vote (emmmmm)

The Register Want advice from UK government website about tax ‘n’ stuff? Talk to the chatbot

The Register, Meta gives nod to weaponizing Llama – but only for the good guys

Financial Times, UK government launches new AI safety platform for businesses

New York Times, Meta Permits Its A.I. Models to Be Used for U.S. Military Purposes

The Conversation, Doctors are already using AI in care – but we don’t actually know what safe use should look like

New York Times, All Trick, No Treat: Dublin Crowds Turn Up for Halloween Parade That Wasn’t

Blogs

Opinio Juris, Understanding the Scope of the Council of Europe Framework Convention on AI

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