Generative AI Policy Must Be Precise, Careful, and Practical: How to Cut Through the Hype and Spot Potential Risks in New Legislation (www.eff.org)
Anxiety about generative AI is growing almost as fast as the use of the technology itself. Some of these concerns are reasonable, and some are fueled primarily by dramatic rhetoric from prominent figures in tech, entertainment, and national security. Something, they suggest, must be done to stave off any number of catastrophes,...
Generative AI Policy Must Be Precise, Careful, and Practical: How to Cut Through the Hype and Spot Potential Risks in New Legislation (www.eff.org)
Anxiety about generative AI is growing almost as fast as the use of the technology itself. Some of these concerns are reasonable, and some are fueled primarily by dramatic rhetoric from prominent figures in tech, entertainment, and national security. Something, they suggest, must be done to stave off any number of catastrophes,...
Expanding Broadband in Portland, The Time Is Now (www.eff.org)
Expanding Broadband in Portland, The Time Is Now (www.eff.org)
[EFF] User Generated Content and the Fediverse: A Legal Primer (www.eff.org)
I found this interesting and was wondering how some of the larger instances handle the issues they outline such as...
Around the World, Threats to LGBTQ+ Speech Deepen (www.eff.org)
VICTORY! Maine Increases Transparency and Accountability for its Fusion Center (www.eff.org)
A Year Since Dobbs, The Fight For Reproductive Privacy and Information Access Continues (www.eff.org)
Student Monitoring Tools Should Not Flag LGBTQ+ Keywords (www.eff.org)
One of the more dangerous features of student monitoring tools like GoGuardian, Gaggle, and Bark is their “flagging” functionality. The tools can scan web pages, documents in students’ cloud drives, emails, video content, and more for keywords about topics like sex, drugs, and violence. They then...
Student Monitoring Tools Should Not Flag LGBTQ+ Keywords (www.eff.org)
One of the more dangerous features of student monitoring tools like GoGuardian, Gaggle, and Bark is their “flagging” functionality. The tools can scan web pages, documents in students’ cloud drives, emails, video content, and more for keywords about topics like sex, drugs, and violence. They then...
What Reddit Got Wrong (www.eff.org)
After weeks of burning through users’ goodwill, Reddit is facing a moderator strike and an exodus of its most important users. It’s the latest example of a social media site making a critical mistake: users aren’t there for the services, they’re there for the community. Building barriers to access...
Electronic Frontier Foundation shouted out Lemmy, Kbin, and Mastodon in their Reddit coverage today: What Reddit Got Wrong (www.eff.org)
From the article:...