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On Sunday, Trump used his Truth Social account to share the AI-generated images, known as “deepfakes,” one of which showed Swift dressed up as Uncle Sam with the caption, “Taylor Wants You to Vote for Donald Trump.” Others showed people wearing shirts that read, “Swifties for Trump.”
Trump wrote, “I accept,” in his post sharing the images, suggesting he was accepting a formal endorsement.
Fresh Warnings of Election Deepfakes After Trump’s Taylor Swift Stunt
The Intercept is one of the many media outlets that have sued OpenAI and Microsoft over the past year for using journalists’ work to train ChatGPT without permission or credit. The case, which OpenAI and Microsoft are trying to get tossed from federal court, shows why digital news outlets are particularly exposed to AI grifters.
Source: Open AI Ripping Off Scarlett Johansson and The Intercept
Lavender system had a database of 37,000 Palestinian men with suspected links to Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).
Lavender assigns a numerical score, from one to a hundred, to every man in Gaza, based mainly on cellphone and social media data, and automatically adds those with high scores to its kill list of suspected militants. Israel uses another automated system, known as “Where’s Daddy?”, to call in airstrikes to kill these men and their families in their homes.
Source: A Brief History of Kill Lists, From Langley to Lavender
Remorseless killing at the initiation of artificial intelligence has been the subject of nail-biting concern for various members of computer-digital cosmos. Be wary of such machines in war and their displacing potential regarding human will and agency. For all that, the advent of AI-driven, automated systems in war has already become a cold-blooded reality, deployed conventionally, and with utmost lethality by human operators.
The UN Secretary General, António Guterres, stated how “deeply troubled” he was by reports that Israel’s bombing campaign had used “artificial intelligence as a tool in the identification of targets, particularly in densely populated residential areas, resulting in a high level of civilian casualties.” It might be far better to see these matters as cases of willing, and reckless misidentification, with a conscious acceptance on the part of IDF military personnel that enormous civilian casualties are simply a matter of course. To that end, we are no longer talking about a form of advanced, scientific war waged proportionately and with precision, but a technologically advanced form of mass murder.
Source: Death by Algorithm: Israel’s AI War in Gaza – » The Australian Independent Media Network
One aspect of the recent revelations about the IDF’s Lavender AI system that’s not getting enough consideration is the fact that it is completely devastating to the narrative that Israel has been killing so many civilians because Hamas uses “human shields”.
“Israel’s argument that they kill so many civilians because Hamas uses ‘human shields’ is torn apart by the revelation that the IDF prefers to attack its ‘targets’ when they are at home with their families,” tweeted Grim. “It is not Hamas using human shields, it is Israel deliberately hunting families.”
Source: The ‘human shields’ lie has been conclusively, irrefutably debunked – Pearls and Irritations
The Israeli Weapons Laboratory
The incredibly brave and resourceful Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham revealed Wednesday in a hard-hitting piece of investigative journalism that the Israeli military has used two artificial intelligence programs, “Lavender” and “Where’s Daddy,” to target some 37,000 alleged members of the military wings of Hamas and Islamic Jihad. The programs used GPS to discover when a Hamas member had gone home, since it was easiest to hit them there, ensuring that his wife and children would also be killed. If he lived in an apartment building, which most did, then all the civilians in neighboring apartments could also be killed– children, women, non-comb
Source: Israel’s Lavender Murderbot is Programmed to Kill up to a Third of all Palestinian Civilians in Gaza
IF ANY ONE CRIME of the Australian establishment press over the assault on Gaza has been the most unforgivable, it is perhaps the crime of omission.
Source: Australian media’s greatest crime against Gaza is ignoring it
If only he were Black, Muslim or a woman he’d be gone.
After Barnaby Joyce MP was filmed sprawled on his back on a Canberra footpath, managing editor Michelle Pini explains why Australian voters should indeed take a dim view of his persistently chaotic behaviour.
Source: Why Barnaby’s drunken planter tumble – and other mad acts – matter
There is no doubt an inquiry into supermarket pricing is a positive step in light of crippling food prices. Certainly, instigating mandatory requirements instead of a voluntary code that sets out some nice suggestions can only be a good thing. Anyone familiar with the banking industry would know that voluntary codes of conduct are not worth the paper they’re written on.
Precisely for its progress in the field, China is being punished by that other contender for AI supremacy, the United States. Despite some forced sense of bonhomie among the delegates, such fault lines were nigh impossible to paper over. On October 17, the US Department of Commerce announced that further restrictions would be placed on advanced AI chips along with the imposition of additional licensing requirements for shipments to 40 countries to prevent resales to China. One company, Nvidia, was told directly by the department that it had to immediately cease shipping A800 and H800 chips to the Chinese market without licensed authorisation from the US.
The civilian slaughter in Gaza today did not begin solely as a consequence of the monstrous Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, writes Dr Jennifer Wilson.
Source: Gaza and the Law of return
When the West keeps accusing China of it’s inhumanity it always seems embarrassing, to say the least. Because the Chinese lead in calling for Unity and a World Body to oversee AI more urgently than the West.
From within the summit itself, limiting China’s limited contribution may have revealing consequences. A number of Chinese academics attending the summit had signed on to a statement showing even greater concern for the “existential risk” posed by AI than either the Bletchley statement or President Biden’s executive order on AI. According to the Financial Times, the group, which is distinguished by such figures as the computer scientist Andrew Yao, are calling for the establishment of “an international regulatory body, the mandatory registration and auditing of advanced AI systems, the inclusion of instant ‘shutdown’ procedures and for developers to spend 30 per cent of their research budget on AI safety.”
Source: Rishi Sunak’s AI Pitch: The Bletchley Declaration – » The Australian Independent Media Network
The word “woke” is deployed by conservatives to poison the public discourse and appeal to our worst instincts, writes Paul Begley.
If your business relies on ripping off staff, taxpayers and other assorted bystanders – or needs to prevent public access to affordable life-saving medication – in order to stay afloat, it should just close down, writes managing editor Michelle Pini.
Remember everyone The Coalition tried to ensure you don’t get cheaper prescriptions … because the Pharmacy Guild are big Liberal donors (Dave Smith )
Source: Old, sick or dead? You still need to come and see the chemist
Yet the reality of AI is that because it is trained on decisions previously made by humans – decisions that themselves embody prejudice – AI tools are biased. This means that companies and other entities seeking to use AI to achieve meaningful, non-discriminatory outcomes, need to approach doing so critically.
Enter: the movement for ethical AI.
Source: AI risks entrenching biases. Here’s how companies can use it more ethically. – Missing Perspectives
We know for a fact that AI will, unless edited, be far more balanced than it is now with the current stable of journalists at News Corp. If this is fact Murdoch won’t be supported by the same cash flow market as he is now? Consequently seems to me his profitability will go into even further decline. Can you imagine an AI-published Herald Sun or The Australian without Bolt or Sheridan? Murdoch would need to sack AI to keep Harvey Norman and QANTAS advertising. Sky News without Dean or Credlin? This seems more a Rupert Ruse or to give Llachlan less chance to fuck things up as he always has. This is a case of reality mimicking art and the TV series Succession
This article was not written by AI, but Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation hopes in the future many will be.
Source: News Corp eyes huge AI potential, ‘fatal’ consequences
The Sofronoff shambles, Robodebt Royal Commission, hijacking of the Voice Referendum and permeation by PwC (among others) of the public service cannot recur, write Dave Donovan and Michelle Pini.
Source: Dodgy governments, corrupt institutions and shadow states lurking beneath our democracy
“I’m hopeful that if we did the right thing, AI would be great. But the question is: Will we be doing the right thing in our policy space? And I think that’s much more problematic.”
Source: Nobel-Winning Economist Joseph Stiglitz ‘Very Worried’ AI Could Supercharge Inequality
Worker pay, already failing to keep pace with cost-of-living increases, is at risk of being further suppressed as artificial intelligence and other technologies threaten to automate 27% of existing jobs in wealthy countries.
Source: Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community | Common Dreams
One of the troubling things about modern life is the fact that so many of our ordinary decisions are manipulated by vested interests and opaque forces. This isn’t entirely a new phenomenon, we have always been easily swayed – by the slick advertisers of Madison Avenue, the chocolate bars placed strategically at checkouts, the newspapers screaming what should alarm us the most today.
More and more Australians are facing crippling poverty while many corporations continue to rake in the money while still claiming government handouts like JobKeeper, writes managing editor Michelle Pini.
Source: Profits before people: Corporate greed set to continue
Artificial intelligence “godfather” Geoffrey Hinton has resigned from his job at Google, saying that “bad actors” will use new AI technologies to harm others and that the tools he helped to create could spell the end of humanity.
Source: AI ‘godfather’ Geoffrey Hinton warns of dangers as he quits job at Google
Melanie Mitchell, an academic who knows a thing or two about the field, was bemused and tweeted as much. “Senator, I’m an AI researcher. Your description of ChatGPT is dangerously misinformed. Every sentence is incorrect. I hope you will learn more about how this system actually works, how it was trained, and what its limitations are.”
Source: Anxiety as Socialism: AI Moratorium Fantasies – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Artificial intelligence, lethal autonomous weapons, hypersonic missiles, cyber battles: The Arms Control Association rings alarm bells over the rush to develop these and other advanced military technologies.
When Australians are feeling good about themselves the LNP,Dutton, and Murdoch want it stopped and stopped immediately. However, they looks so bad doing it.
The new PM’s visit to war-torn Ukraine was equated with ScoMo taking off to Hawaii, while Peter Dutton continued to dominate media coverage, this week. Managing editor Michelle Pini takes a look at the latest anti-Albo campaign.
It’s almost scary to think that the world as we know it may well be run by Artificial Intelligence (AI) one day.
Source: Artificial Intelligence: Will it really terminate the labour force?
According to PeerJ Computer Science journal, an algorithm written by scientists from the University College London, University of Sheffield and the University of Pennsylvania allows an Artificial Intelligence algorithm to give a verdict with seventy-nine percent accuracy in human trials. This complex system is one of a kind, and has solely been developed to understand case …
Source: European Courts to Use Artificial Intelligence to Pass Sentence
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