internet privacy
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Amazon Is Using Your Conversations With Alexa to Train AI
Last week, at Amazon’s annual Fall hardware event, executive David Limp revealed the company would soon be upgrading the capabilities of its well-known voice assistant, Alexa, using the supposedly magical power of generative AI. Earlier this year, Amazon rolled out AlexaLLM, a large language model designed to be integrated into the voice assistant to make…
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A New Facebook Setting Tells Meta Not to Use Your Data for AI
Meta, the maker of Facebook and Instagram, introduced a new privacy setting Thursday that lets you ask, pretty please, for the company not to use your data to train its AI models. Buried in the nether regions of Facebook’s Help Center—a part of the website most people probably never visit—you’ll find an entry called Generative…
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Elon Musk Tests Verification With a Government ID and a Selfie
X (the social media site formerly known as Twitter) is in the process of launching a new identity verification feature that could prove controversial. The feature, which is currently only offered to/forced on premium “Blue” subscribers, asks users to fork over a selfie and a picture of a government-issued ID to verify that they are…
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America Wants a New Agency to Regulate Big Tech
‘We need a nimble, adaptable, new agency with expertise, resources and authority to do the same for Big Tech,’ the senators wrote.