Discover-Tech malware event Dan Lyke / comment 0
Targeted ads were used to de-anonymize users and deliver Candiru/"Integrity Labs" malware on to the phones of Al Jazeera reporters.
Ad blockers are security software.
Via, which is a response to a link to Israeli firm used ads to enable espionage, Canadian researchers say </a.
A few AI links Dan Lyke / comment 0
Via Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social
This is a very good point about AI development. If you use AI to "upgrade" your product piecemeal, the patterns it follows will not be YOUR patterns, they will not be the collectively understood patterns of the product, and the entire product will decohere.
Terence Tao Why are we even doing all this? is a look at the mathematical side of things.
A list of dumb phones Dan Lyke / comment 0
Meta recording without consent Dan Lyke / comment 0
Meta Ray Ban smart glasses found recording audio without wearer's consent
This week, some users reported online that their Ray-Ban Metas were recording without their consent. A person going by Kindly-Audience-137 on Reddit, for example, said this happened to them across three Meta Ray-Bans and that they had the “Respond without Hey Meta” setting turned off. The person said the Meta AI app “saves audio recordings and text transcripts of these conversations in my conversation history.”
Meta destroying advertiser reputations Dan Lyke / comment 0
I could swear something like this happened before, but searching for Facebook or Meta and AI slop and advertising is ... not too productive.
Anyway, apparently Bookshop.org had an ad on Facebook, and Meta did some sort of generative AI munging of it. For a while, I've assumed that any ad on Facebook is a scam. This is a reminder to advertisers that putting your ad on a dodgy platforms next to cheap product rip-offs and outright lies will harm your brand.
In her thread on this, Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow@raggedfeathers.com observes:
I am rather baffled why anyone bothers spending money on Meta platform ads anyway, since any views may well be bots and any "engagement" numbers are basically made-up. They're a black box, like Amazon ads (or KU "page reads"), and there's no way of independently verifying anything.
I went to disable this crap in our Shiraki Press ad account, and got served a popup *demanding a reason why*.
Just got home from seeing Alex Gibney Dan Lyke / comment 0
Just got home from seeing Alex Gibney 's film "Musk". I don't think there's a lot new there if you've been paying attention, but it was good to have it collected in one place.
OpenAI reduced to stealing crypto Dan Lyke / comment 0
NJ prosecutor arrested for CSAM Dan Lyke / comment 0
“thegentlemanpervert” producing AI CSAM is a NJ prosecutor, say cops.
I have a lot of complicated feelings about how we treat children and sexuality, and my own journey, but the combination of AI trained on real people, so many layers of non-consent, and a prosecutor, so even more layers of power imbalance, makes this peg my shadenfreudometer.