AI Reading for Saturday June 1
AI giveth, AI taketh away. AI can sustain companies but also disrupt them. - The Information
A plague of fake AI nudes spreads like wildfire in schools, wreaks havoc. - WSJ
Garry Tan lobbies against AI regs. - Politico
In the EU the regs say large companies have to take steps to test and disclose for AI risks around surveillance, privacy, bias, harassment etc. If he wants to make sure that happens here too, OK. If he wants to be another shill for Elon Musk, OK.
Perplexity's Pages feature is like a Wikipedia made by AI. - Tom's Guide
Did they solve the Google low-quality issue, and to what extent does it just repackage Wikipedia?
Publishers worry about AI overviews usurping their page views. - NY Times
AI billboards show custom ads to people passing by, targeting e.g. people who work for specific companies. - TechCrunch
Wait, somewhere there is a data broker that can link e.g. my phone's MAC address to where I work?
Use VR to face your worst fears virtually, like a therapeutic Room 101 from 1984. - Neuroscience News
AI cropduster drones take flight. - CNET
"AI shopping carts" are a thing - New York Post
How to opt-out of training AI. Thinking about privacy, and how much to trust that stuff you paste or upload into the cloud won't get leaked. - Washington Post
OpenAI rolls out discount offerings for schools and nonprofits. - The Verge
What AI thinks a beautiful woman (or normal, or ugly) looks like. - Washington Post
VR to be enhanced with Smell-O-Vision. - Nature
You were so preoccupied with whether you could, you didn't stop to think whether you should.
Revisiting I, Robot. Damn bro you didn't have to go that hard.
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