If you want to know what an AI system is doing, look for transparency from the creator instead.
From author J.M. Berger on Bluesky, a proposal to avoid chatbot psychosis:
A tough order for companion bots, of course — which lots of companies want their general-purpose AI to be.
Online safety laws keep ordinary people from expressing themselves, while companies like xAI cause real harm.
All park-goers have been evacuated to dinosaur-free zones, such as the Upper West Side and Staten Island.
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As TechCrunch notes, the change apparently happened sometime over the past month and included “sections relating to habeas corpus, the powers that protect citizens from unlawful detention.” The Library of Congress says things should be “resolved soon.”
404 Media found a government contractor listing that hints at how Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will use its massive funding windfall to expand:
“Specifically, ICE wants the eventual contractor to find platforms with the highest potential for reaching recruits, including YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, LinkedIn, and X, according to the documents. The list also includes Hulu, HBO Max, and Amazon Prime, according to the documents.”
It’s a relatively narrow legal defeat, though. The Ninth Circuit Appeals Court ruled that X — Twitter, at the time of the lawsuit — isn’t protected by Section 230 for failing to report known child sexual abuse material to authorities, nor for designing a bad system to let users flag it. (It hasn’t been held liable for either; that will be argued later.) But the court found Section 230 blocked claims that it “amplified” CSAM by failing to scrub offending hashtags, and it said the controversial FOSTA exception didn’t come into play.
As first reported by Status, the Freedom of the Press foundation filed a complaint with the Office of Disciplinary Counsel at the DC Court of Appeals, arguing his “politicized and unlawful abuse” of his FCC chair position violates the Rules of Professional Conduct he’s bound by as an attorney. His role in the “unconstitutional shakedown” of Paramount was the final straw.
The controversy over Itch.io’s NSFW game delisting isn’t cooling down, but the platform has tried to address some of the most common questions in a new FAQ, including its next steps:
“We are actively reaching out to other payment processors that are more willing to work with this kind of content. We have suspended the ability to pay with Stripe for 18+ content for the foreseeable future. Our immediate focus has been on content classification reviews and implementing stricter age-gating on the site.”
