What you see here is the last week's worth of links and quips I have shared on LinkedIn, from Monday through Sunday.
For now I'll post the notes as they appeared on LinkedIn, including hashtags and sentence fragments. Over time I might expand on these thoughts as they land here on my blog.
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Here's the previous issue as a sample: "Nothing's real but the fakery"
In today's episode of "Every Business Model Devolves Into A Data Collection Ploy":
"Vending machine error reveals secret face image database of college students" (Ars Technica)
In the last week or so, I've seen several articles about Google's AI efforts. They fall into three themes:
1/ An Incident with a Google AI product. (In this case: Gemini's image generation.)
2/ Google is under pressure, from inside (execs) and outside (shareholders), to push on AI products.
3/ This: "Google Trims Jobs in Trust and Safety While Others Work ‘Around the Clock’" (Bloomberg)
This feels like a bad mix. Theme #2, compounded by Theme #3, will increase exposure to AI-related risks. Which should lead to more cases of Theme #1.
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Weekly recap: 2024-03-10
random thoughts and articles from the past week