#AI #GenerativeAI #SocialMedia #Twitter #Musk #xAI: "Elon Musk will use Twitter data to build and train an AI to counter ChatGPT.

He mentioned the plan during a Friday Twitter Spaces discussion that shared more details about his plans for xAI, his newest startup.

"Every organization doing AI, large and small, has used Twitter’s data for training, basically in all cases illegally,” he said, later adding: "We had multiple entities scraping every tweet ever made, and trying to do so in a span of days."

Twitter recently imposed rate limits to prevent companies from scraping data from the platform. However, Musk plans on opening up the tweet access for xAI. “We will use the public tweets —obviously not anything private— for training as well just like everyone else has,” he said."

https://www.pcmag.com/news/elon-musk-will-train-his-ai-project-using-your-tweets

RT @datasociety

As we weigh what AI means for the future, @dan_nott & @SkotBotCambo break down the illusion of creation without labor and suggest communities ask questions like: “What tasks *should* we automate? What have we gained from doing these tasks ourselves?”

https://thenib.com/our-labor-built-ai/

#Brazil #SocialMedia #Disinformation #DigitalRights #HumanRights: "So far, PL-2630 has established itself as the Brazilian administration’s main legislative tool for addressing their growing concerns about the use and role of digital technologies in enabling violence and polarization, such as social media disinformation and coordinated violent attacks online.

As part of civil society’s ongoing engagement in the debate around platform regulation in Brazil, Access Now and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) have prepared a joint policy brief delving into the reasons Brazilian society should be interested in discussions surrounding PL-2630, as well as highlighting the draft law’s problematic points that need to be addressed."

https://www.accessnow.org/brasil-digital-platforms-debate/

"As part of our efforts to meet DSA requirements, we will soon be giving our European community another way to discover content on TikTok by allowing them to turn off personalisation. This means their For You and LIVE feeds will instead show popular videos from both the places where they live and around the world, rather than recommending content to them based on their personal interests. Similarly, when using non-personalised search, they will see results made up of popular content from their region and in their preferred language. Their Following and Friends feeds will continue to show creators they follow, but in chronological order rather than based on the viewer's profile." https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-eu/fulfilling-commitments-dsa-update

#EU #SocialMedia #TikTok #DSA #Algorithms #RecommendationEngines: "TikTok users in Europe will be able to switch off the personalized algorithm behind its For You and Live feeds as the company makes changes to comply with the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA). According to TikTok, disabling this function will show users “popular videos from both the places where they live and around the world” instead of content based on their personal interests.

These changes relate to DSA rules that require very large online platforms to allow their users to opt out of receiving personalized content — which typically relies on tracking and profiling user activity — when viewing content recommendations. To comply, TikTok’s search feature will also show content that’s popular in the user’s region, and videos under the “Following” and “Friends” feeds will be displayed in chronological order when a non-personalized view is selected."

https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/4/23819878/tiktok-fyp-algorithm-eu-dsa-personalization-data-tracking

#USA #Surveillance #FBI #Section702 #PoliceState: "The latest exhibit in this is in yet another newly declassified opinion of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC). This opinion further reiterates what we already know, that the Federal Bureau of Investigation simply cannot be trusted with conducting foreign intelligence queries on American persons. Regardless of the rules, or consistent FISC disapprovals, the FBI continues to act in a way that shows no regard for privacy and civil liberties.

According to the declassified FISC ruling, despite paper reforms which the FBI has touted that it put into place to respond to the last time it was caught violating U.S. law, the Bureau conducted four queries for the communications of a state senator and a U.S. senator. And they did so without even meeting their own already-inadequate standards for these kinds of searches.

How many times will the FBI get caught with their hand in the cookie jar of our constitutionally protected private communications without losing these invasive and unconstitutional powers?

Specifically, this disclosure concerns Section 702 of the 2008 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Amendments Act, which authorizes the collection of overseas communications that can be queried by intelligence agencies in national security investigations under the oversight of the FISC. The FBI has access to the collected information, but only for limited purposes—purposes which it routinely and grossly oversteps."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/deja-vu-fbi-proves-again-it-cant-be-trusted-section-702