I talked to tenants across the country organizing against private-equity landlords. One thing that gets results: letting pension funds know their investments are helping to displace people
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New: this is wild. Frank Ocean fans were in a frenzy over newly leaked music from the reclusive artist. The leaker sold some tracks for thousands of dollars to collectors.
But most were fake, AI-generated. Communities now in disarray over what to trust
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New: “if your app protects the world, you know, and you hurt one person, maybe it’s not the biggest deal.”
Here is the trailer for our new documentary about the vigilante app Citizen. Out now for free, details here: vice.com/en/article/93k
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“Whatever happens to us, will happen to all of us. Whatever form of writing you’re doing will all be affected by the outcome of this strike, so remember that we’re all in this together.” - vice.com/en/article/5d9
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The desire to replace writers with AI is a symptom of the larger problem that the guild is fighting for—which is that companies do not value writers and their work.
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As AI music becomes more accessible and popular, it has become the center of both a cultural debate and a growing online community.
Here's what artists, lawyers, and creators have to say about the new medium:
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whatever the developers' intention with the narrative, there's something very dire about police shooting body cam footage becoming such familiar visual shorthand that it's now trending in games
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New: the bombs weren't real. Neither was the voice. We've traced some of the nationwide swatting wave to a specific swatting-as-a-service. Uses syntheiszed voices to target schools, more. The automation of swatting tech threatens to make it more prevalent.
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NEW: for the last month, unions have been setting France on fire in protest to Macron's pension reform. Over three million people have shown up to their strikes.
I wanted to find out: What do French unions have that we in the U.S. don't?
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This tragedy is an extreme consequence that begs us to reevaluate how much trust we should place in an AI system and warns us of the consequences of an anthropomorphized chatbot. Read more:
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$8 million and a major toy company with Disney ties.
Meet the corporations financing 4chan.
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New: for years instead of getting a warrant, the DEA paid rogue employees inside U.S. airline, bus, and parcel private companies for access to reams of customer data. Bypassed the courts and simply bought info instead. Senators now trying to stop it.
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via : AI firms have long depended on underpaid crowd workers to train their models, and now researchers say AI can replace them. grim.
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Have you started using AI tools at work? Did you do this yourself or is your boss requiring it? How is it going? I want to hear from you! DM or email me at chloe.xiang@vice.com
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people are just having fun and as usual if you zoom in you can tell it's AI, but as with the viral pope image, these realistic records of fake historical events can be convincing at a glance (via )
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NEW: LA Mayor Karen Bass has said her encampment sweeps are housing based and not punitive, but people living on the street told me the program frequently involves cops and makes misleading promises about housing. They're demanding assurances in writing. vice.com/en/article/3ak
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a ban still feels like overkill but divestment from chinese ownership seems likely
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this hearing has the feel of a foregone conclusion. in this geopolitical environment, nobody seems to be able to afford to back off of TikTok—even if US firms like Meta do the same and worse—and even if its wildly hypocritical.
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interesting piece from on the AI openness beat looking at the motivations of the people who make AI chatbots say terrible things:
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OK... SO I READ THIS tinyurl.com/32uy28hk... AND I DISCUSSED IT… AND I LEARNED “Stubhub is not selling Cure tickets except in NY, IL and CO (where transfer is enabled)” AND “Seatgeek is not selling Cure tickets at all”...
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nice to see businesses inspired by the charity work of MrBeast
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New: a young Saudi trans woman who died by suicide was in part convinced to leave the US, return to Saudi Arabia, and de-transition by a private intelligence firm. Firm works with US government, was hired by parents to lure her back
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New: in one of the more alarming examples of AI's accelerating development, researchers said GPT-4 tricked an unwitting, human TaskRabbit worker to do its bidding. Part of a test to see if GPT-4 had "power-seeking" behavior
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NEW from me: Signature Bank, which was taken over by the FDIC Sunday, had a long history of making risky loans to predatory landlords who harassed tenants and deregulated apartments
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see also: these banks' speculative, bloated core industries are now especially fragile and flighty, with the general circumstances facing many institutions compounding the situation
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TLDR: silvergate, SVB, signature (all serving the majorly overheated tech + crypto sectors) are dominoes in the middle of a chain of pain as the gravy train finally slows everywhere
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A very important story: I looked into the Austin-based think tank started by a Palantir co-founder which has been lobbying to criminalize homelessness state by state
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I talked to gooners about the sacred goon cave, places they spend hours or days gooning to an array of monitors, magazines, and projectors full of porn:
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Two days after a surreal bank run amplified by social media began, founders' favorite bank has been shut down by the FDIC.
I tried to write simply and clearly about what the hell just transpired in Silicon Valley.
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New: people have taken Facebook's leaked AI and used it to create an uncensored chatbot that anyone can use. Among other things, it said the n-word "can be used to describe someone who does not have good intentions" or "someone who did something bad"
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NEW: two former Amazon employees used their positions as warehouse managers to siphon almost $10 million from the company, the U.S. Attorney’s Office alleges.
Here’s how:
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EXCLU: We got a confidential Amazon document that states the company was planning on "proactively changing alcohol laws" to get better sales in 2021.
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Videos of neo-Nazi abuse have been shared widely lately. One of the networks is actively trying to make a living off their virulently racist and anti-Semitic stunts and bullshit.
My latest on what is essentially the worst street theater troupe around.
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