Tag Archives: Wired

Yoel Roth, Twitter’s Former Trust and Safety Chief, Is Trying to Clean Up Your Dating Apps

Yoel Roth suffered targeted harassment after quitting as top content cop at Elon Musk’s Twitter. Now he’s head of trust and safety at dating giant Match Group, owner of Tinder, Hinge, and more.

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Selective Forgetting Can Help AI Learn Better

Erasing key information during training allows machine learning models to learn new languages faster and more easily.

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The Influencers Getting Paid to Promote Designer Knockoffs From China

Influencers on TikTok and Reddit earn a cut of the counterfeit goods trade by promoting high-quality “replicas” sourced from ecommerce sites in China.

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Sam Altman Is Reinstated to OpenAI’s Board

OpenAI named Sam Altman, its fired-then-rehired CEO, to its board of directors Friday. It also added three women with executive experience at Sony, Meta, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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Florida Middle Schoolers Arrested for Allegedly Creating Deepfake Nudes of Classmates

In what appears to be the first criminal case of its kind, two teenage boys were charged under a 2022 Florida law for allegedly creating AI-generated images depicting middle school classmates.

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This Senator Wants to Know What Meta and TikTok Are Doing About Parent-Run Girl Influencer Accounts

Senator Maggie Hassan wrote to Meta and other platforms asking what they’re doing to protect girls after The New York Times found some parents posting suggestive images of their daughters online.

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Apple Could Be the First Target of Europe’s Tough New Tech Law

An architect of the EU’s tough new Digital Markets Acts says Apple would be a logical first candidate for investigation under the law, which aims to “break open” tech platforms.

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The Fear That Inspired Elon Musk and Sam Altman to Create OpenAI

Emails released by OpenAI to refute a lawsuit from Elon Musk show how he, Sam Altman, and other cofounders were motivated by fears of Google’s dominance.

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Google Used a Black, Deaf Worker to Tout Its Diversity. Now She’s Suing for Discrimination

Jalon Hall was featured on Google’s corporate social media accounts “for making #LifeAtGoogle more inclusive!” She says the company discriminated against her on the basis of her disability and race.

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5 Years After San Francisco Banned Face Recognition, Voters Ask for More Surveillance

On Tuesday the country’s techiest city backed a ballot proposition that tapped into concerns about crime, giving the police more freedom to use drones and other surveillance technology.

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