Cautionary Tales – True Lies and Genuine Fakes
In 1998, an art gallery gets a mysterious phone call. The caller claims they have been fooled by a master forger and that many of their prized paintings are fakes.…
tech won’t save us: Decomputing For a Better Future
Paris Marx is joined by Dan McQuillan to discuss the global push by governments to rapidly adopt AI at all costs and how citizens can critically rethink our dependence on…
About two-thirds of patients who were flagged by the AI stethoscope as potentially having heart failure did not actually have it.
About two-thirds of patients who were flagged by the AI stethoscope as potentially having heart failure did not actually have it. However, it’s unclear whether doctors find the tool useful.…
YouTube backlash begins: “Why is AI combing through every single video I watch?”
Tens of thousands of YouTubers are raging against YouTube's plan to use AI to detect underage users in the US. On Tuesday, a Change.org petition rapidly neared its 50,000-signature goal,…
The positive results that get published tend to be overly optimistic about AI’s potential
To be clear, AI can drive scientific breakthroughs. My concern is about their magnitude and frequency. Has AI really shown enough potential to justify such a massive shift in talent,…
SoundCloud Quietly Updated Their Terms to Let AI Feast on Artists’ Music
Artists are furious at the platform's sneaky tactics.
AI Threatens Literary Translation
The etymology of the word translation—“to carry across”—conjures an image of physical labor. It is deeply relational, requiring at least two bodies, those of an author and of the person…