The Gamification of Human Relationships
How Facebook, Instagram, and other social media platforms gamify human relationships to the tune of great profits. The results are not pretty.
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How noyb is Challenging the Privacy Practices of US Tech Giants in Europe
A look at noyb's recent complaints against Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI.
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How Will AI Change Law & the Legal Industry? (Level 3)
The deeper, philosophical question of how AI will change society.
Coopting Disruption - How Five Companies Dominate the Web
A new paper titled "Coopting Disruption" exposes the tricks and tactics used by BigTech to stay ahead of startups and potential competitors.
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Understand the Essentials of the Digital Markets Act & the Digital Services Acts
Both acts, especially the Digital Services Act, will be burdensome for the tech giants to comply with. The EU is imposing a lot of paper pushing and compliance work but it's arguably for the better.
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The Social Costs of Meta’s AI Playbook
Also, OpenAI's Sora, Apple Vision Pro, and conversation with Nick Potkalitsky about AI's impact on education.
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To Open-Source or Not to Open-Source?
Defining open-source AI vs open-source software, why Meta's Llama models are not open-source, and how open foundation models could help us sidestep the traps we fell into with social media.
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Potential Landmark Case on Social Media's Destruction of Youth Mental Health
The multi-state class action against Meta, social media's harmful effects on the youth, manipulative product features, and Meta's denial of key findings in internal research.
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Rabbit R1 & The Future of Operating Systems
A future without smartphones, LLMs as operating systems, AI mind reading devices + conversation with Conrad Gray.
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A Sensible Approach to Regulating AI in Copyright Law – The Input Phase
A new class-action lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, Gary Marcus and Reid Southen in IEEE Spectrum, Public vs. Private datasets + Podcast with Sairam from Gradient Ascent
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