3CL Foundation

26/06/2024

Decentralized and the Future of Free Speech Online - there are both promises and pitfalls.

Decentralized social networks like Mastodon and BlueSky are trending topics that have drawn much attention and discussion in recent years. By devolving powers from the central node to the end users, decentralized social networks aim to cure existing pathologies on the centralized platforms and have....

22/06/2024

Researchers Say Chatbots ‘Policing’ Each Other Can Correct Some Hallucinations

Researchers created a second AI to detect when a primary chatbot was hallucinating. A third AI then evaluated the “truth police’s” efficacy.

21/06/2024

The Great Retrenchment has begun https://open.substack.com/pub/garymarcus/p/the-great-ai-retrenchment-has-begun?r=2r8duc&utm_medium=ios

Further evidence that AGI is not imminent

20/06/2024

will soon ask audiences to add context to videos - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/17/24180058/youtube-notes-test-community-sourced-context-videos

Notes are coming to YouTube, too.

19/06/2024

U.S. surgeon general calls for tobacco-style warning labels for : NPR https://www.npr.org/2024/06/17/nx-s1-5008816/u-s-surgeon-general-calls-for-tobacco-style-warning-labels-for-social-media GenZ Citizen Media Project

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy about his call to put a warning label on social media platforms. Murthy believes social media can harm teenagers' mental health.

14/06/2024

Bloom’s Taxonomy revisited to incorporate

10/06/2024

Measuring Effectively to Reduce Risks Online | a new report by the World Economic Forum

This new white paper serves as a valuable resource for stakeholders navigating the intricacies of measuring digital safety amid evolving technological advancements and regulatory frameworks. It outlines the challenges of measuring digital safety and provides a relevant categorization for online safe...

09/06/2024

NewsBreak: Most downloaded US app has Chinese roots and ‘writes fiction’ using | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/technology/top-news-app-us-has-chinese-origins-writes-fiction-with-help-ai-2024-06-05/?t

08/06/2024

Via Euronews: faces complaints in 11 countries over data use for https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/06/06/meta-faces-complaints-in-11-countries-over-data-use-for-ai

Additional complaints will follow, according to Austrian privacy group NOYB.

07/06/2024

Breaking Into ’s Black Box: Anthropic Maps the Mind of Its Claude Large Language Model

Researchers linked patterns of LLM activity to specific concepts and showed they could control the AI model's behavior by dialing this activity up or down.