Proprietary Software Failings and Crimes
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2023-03-30 [Older] EA is cutting around 800 jobs in company restructuring
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Forget ChatGPT And Play Rock-Paper-Scissors With Yourself Instead
This isn’t like the cool AI everyone’s getting caught up with these days, but we’re sure it will make a fun party gimmick nonetheless.
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2023-04-01 [Older] UvA lecturer concerned about ChatGPT's potential dangers such as racist and sexist language [Ed: Distracts from vastly worse problems like veiled disinformation by governments, corporations; even plagiarism. As if the "isms" are the foremost problem.]
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Microsoft to pay $3.3M to settle sanctions, export control violations
Microsoft will pay more than $3.3 million to settle charges from two federal agencies its subsidiaries violated sanctions laws and export controls across their dealings in four sanctioned countries and Ukraine’s Crimea region, which is under Russian control.
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Oops: Samsung Employees Leaked Confidential Data to ChatGPT
Samsung employees are in hot water after they reportedly leaked sensitive confidential company information to OpenAI’s ChatGPT on at least three separate occasions. The leaks highlight both the widespread popularity of the popular new AI chatbot for professionals and the often-overlooked ability of OpenAI to suck up sensitive data from its millions of willing users.
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Tech layoffs and how different parts of the world are dealing with them
After several tech giants including Amazon, Meta and Microsoft fired thousands in India, Mr Agarwal is not interested in working with big tech for now. He is instead hoping to build on his experience at Twitter to set up a policy consulting firm.
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Microsoft Ends Measurement Of Chicago Air Pollution
“A citywide project that tracked Chicago’s air pollution using more than a hundred low-cost air quality sensors ended last week after the tech company Microsoft, which led the project, quietly announced to its users that it was shuttering the program,” reports MuckRock. “Microsoft’s air quality monitoring program, called Project Eclipse, began in July 2021 when it placed air sensors atop bus shelters across the city in partnership with the city of Chicago, the advertising firm JCDecaux, which designs the city’s bus shelters, Chicago’s Environmental Law and Policy Center and… community organizations. For almost two years, the sensors delivered one of the few detailed pictures of how air pollution varies by neighborhood in the U.S.” In a statement from the company, which just laid off thousands of workers: “Microsoft said it decided to close its air quality initiative after its research arm, which ‘continuously evaluates research projects to determine directions and future investment,’ had decided now was ‘a natural point to conclude the work.'”