Coywolf: Starlink updates Privacy Policy to allow AI model training with personal data. “The Elon Musk-owned (SpaceX) satellite internet company Starlink just updated its Privacy Policy to allow the use of customers’ personal information to train [its] machine learning or artificial intelligence models, including for third parties. The change in its policy is opt-in by default.”

#Mosaic #Owl #Stained #Glass by Kaye Menner Wide variety #Prints & lovely #Products at:

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#ai #bird #birdart #mosaic #digitalart #homedecor #mastoart #fediverse #fediart #fedigiftshop #giftideas #wallartforsale #Art #artforsale #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Artist #FineArtAmerica #PhotographyFeed #VisualArts #CreativeArts

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**ACHIEVED shared 3rd place in FAA Contest - "MOSAIC EXPRESSIONS II" July 2025. An image of an owl that I created with digital art and digital painting, and enhanced in Photoshop. Owls are birds from the order Strigiformes, which includes over 200 species of mostly solitary and nocturnal birds of prey typified by an upright stance, a large, broad head, binocular vision, binaural hearing, sharp talons, and feathers adapted for silent flight. Exceptions include the diurnal northern hawk-owl and the gregarious burrowing owl.

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https://www.codingwithjesse.com/blog/coding-with-llms-can-still-be-fun/

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AI assistants are the archnemesis
of data privacy.

Because AI models are inherent
data collectors.

They rely on large data collection for training, improvement, operation, and customization.

More often than not, this data is collected without clear and informed consent (from unknowing training subjects or from platform users). This data is then sent to and accessed by a private company with many incentives to share and monetize this data.

By using these platforms, we are encouraging them to collect even more nonconsensual data on everyone. This is an important social responsibility to consider. Choose carefully.

#Privacy #Consent #Ethics #AI #NoAI

@Tutanota #JustSayNo to #Clankers.

#AI stands for #ArtificialIdiots.

"The adtech problems drew a monopolization case, and Google lost that one too. And though the remedy is still to come, few think Google will be fundamentally restructured.

And that’s a tragedy, because the shift to AI is perhaps more significant than the shift to mobile. As with the early search market, there are several companies offering foundational AI services, like OpenAI, Microsoft, Perplexity, Anthropic, DeepSeek, and so forth. The two key resources determining which model wins are, same as search before, data and distribution.

Google, as you’d expect, is repeating its search monopolization playbook with Gemini. It is self-preferencing Gemini across its lines of business, which is what it did with Android and search. It is cutting deals to insert Gemini into every major retail channel, which is analogous to its payments to phone makers to thwart rival search engines. Then there’s its deal with Apple, which is virtually identical to what Judge Mehta found to be the original Apple-Google arrangement enabling the illegal monopolization of the search market.

Mehta’s failure to impose a remedy was permission for Google to repeat this scheme with generative AI. And now it has. This deal will ensure that Google’s artificial intelligence chatbot product will become dominant in the most important mobile ecosystem in the world. And its experience structuring adtech markets suggest that if it mediates the entire economy, many tradition businesses will wind up like newspapers, eliminated as Google appropriates profit margins for itself and destroys the ability of consumers to differentiate products based on quality, innovation or other values. It could be an extinction level event for many commercial areas, like the death of the open web, and a dramatic narrowing of consumer choice."

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/will-google-organize-the-worlds-prices

#Google #AI #LLMs #AISearch #PriceFixing #Monopolies #Oligopolies #Competition #Antitrust

Privacy giant snaps up AI protocol startup to govern data flows nobody saw coming: Usercentrics acquires MCP Manager to govern AI data access through Model Context Protocol, extending consent management into agentic workflows as EU AI Act enforcement begins. https://ppc.land/privacy-giant-snaps-up-ai-protocol-startup-to-govern-data-flows-nobody-saw-coming/ #Privacy #AI #DataManagement #ConsentManagement #EUAIAct

RE: https://mastodon.social/@eff/115907269906942708

It is AI integrations like these that have us concerned about the future of Florida, where a bill is being considered to require age verification for using a chatbot.

It is possible that Google could require you to verify your identity to use any Google service because of Gemini being there.

https://www.miamitech.club/oppose-sb-482/

#Privacy #AgeVerification #Security #Florida #Miami #AI #Tech

Electronic Frontier Foundation » 🌐 2026-01-16
@eff@mastodon.social

“It’s a reminder to people that email should be treated almost not quite public,” EFF’s Thorin Klosowski told The New York Times. Consider the company that runs it and law enforcement's access to it: "The more you put it in it, the more they’ll have access to.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/technology/personaltech/gmail-gemini-ai-email-inbox.html

Matthew McConaughey is getting in the fight over unauthorized AI likenesses. The actor is filing trademark applications to prevent AI companies from stealing his likeness. Eight have been approved so far. Read more from @Engadget:

https://flip.it/leUZOr

#Tech #AI #MatthewMcConaghey #Likeness #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence

OpenAI has decided it’s time to start making money via ads at the bottom of user conversations with ChatGPT. Read more from @Techcrunch:

https://flip.it/_DdPKA

#Tech #AI #ChatGPT #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence

Do you believe that Clearview AI, a facial recognition company that scraped more than 20 billions images from social media platforms and the internet, without consent from the subjects, to sell their product to law enforcement and government agencies, is a privacy-respectful product because it does respect the privacy of its users?

#Privacy #Consent #AI

"If there is no red line around AI-generated sex abuse, then no line exists."

Interesting column from @TheAtlantic: "Elon Musk Cannot Get Away With This."

https://flip.it/E6qnZb

#Grok #AI #ElonMusk #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

Bart Preneel in Belgian newspaper De Morgen: AI peer reviews are tempting to just copy, but without accountability quality suffers. De-anonymizing reviews could force transparency and make reviewers actually check the research.
https://www.demorgen.be/nieuws/ik-schat-dat-vandaag-zo-n-10-procent-volledig-door-ai-is-uitgevoerd-peerreview-almaar-vaker-in-handen-van-chatgpt~ba46598c/ [paywall]
#ai #peerreview

Gizmodo: Signal’s Founder Turns His Attention to AI’s Privacy Problem. “The founder of Signal has been quietly working on a fully end-to-end encrypted, open-source AI chatbot designed to keep users’ conversations secret. In a series of blog posts, Moxie Marlinspike makes clear that while he is a fan of large language models, he’s uneasy about how little privacy most AI platforms […]

Claude, the Therapist, Is In to explain the challenge of academic orthodoxy
https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/16/claude-the-therapist-is-in/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#philosophy #llm #ai #claude #critique #language #orthodoxy #kant #reading #writing #blog #podcast #history

The 1984 Artificial Intelligence episode of the Computer Chronicles TV show, hosted by the late Stewart Cheifet, featured demonstrations of some Interlisp applications: the ONCOCIN expert system for medical consultation and the KEE Knowledge Engineering Environment expert system shell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S3m0V_ZF_Q

#ai #interlisp #ExpertSystem #retrocomputing

👆 The 1984 episode of Computer Chronicles on Artificial Intelligence also featured a demonstration of Dipmeter Advisor, an oil drilling expert system for Interlisp-D.

#ai #interlisp #ExpertSystem #retrocomputing

Oopsie!

Claude Cowork Exfiltrates Files https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/claude-cowork-exfiltrates-files

#ai #llm #vulnerability #cybersecurity

Wikipedia inks AI deals with Microsoft, Meta and Perplexity as it marks 25th birthday.

@AssociatedPress reports: "While AI training has sparked legal battles elsewhere over copyright and other issues, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said he welcomes it."

https://flip.it/i-otck

#Wikipedia #AI #Tech #Microsoft #Meta

@nixCraft In #Computer #Science the #GIGO principle means ‘Garbage In, Garbage Out.’

With #AI #clankers increasingly spewing #slop , which other clankers then consume, similar to how #MadCowDisease spreads, it won’t be long before #AI stands for ‘#ArtificialIdiot.’ 🤷🏻‍♂️

So, "#AI boosted your productivity"? Well, are you a software developer or a factory worker?

Productivity is a measure of predictable output from repetitive processes. It is how much shit your factory floor produces. Of course, once attempts to boost productivity start affecting the quality of your product, things get hairy…

"Productivity" makes no sense for creative work. It makes zero sense for software developers. If your work is defined by productivity, then it makes no sense to use as #LLM to improve it. You can be replaced entirely.

Artists get that. The fact that many software developers don't suggests that the trade took a wrong turn at some point.

Inspired by https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/06/1000x-liability/#graceful-failure-modes (via https://23.social/@thomasfricke/115853480750134056).

#NoAI

I was looking at a plaid shirt of mine this morning, and at how intricate the weaving of the cloth was, and how like 150 years ago that shirt would have been considered super fancy and expensive as hell, but now it's just a meh $15 shirt from Costco because of automation and mass production.

And I realized that is what gen AI is now doing to art and coding and prose and videography etc. All the stuff that used to be amazing is becoming meh, disposable and utilitarian.

#AI #GenAI #Thoughts

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a closeish up view of the fabric of the shirt in question, it's a plaidish in reds, oranges and yellows and warm grays, with a lighter yellow threading criss-crossing throughout.

WA HB 2157 takes an overly broad approach to #AI regulation, creating impractical rules, expensive compliance burdens, and new litigation risks. The result could be fewer AI tools available in WA and higher costs for businesses and consumers. See why CCIA opposes the bill here: https://ccianet.org/news/2026/01/ccia-testifies-in-opposition-to-washington-hb-2157-warning-bill-would-stifle-ai-innovation-and-harm-small-businesses/

Roblox Age Verification System Fooled by Hand Drawn Facial Hair

Roblox opted to use state of the art AI to bolster its age verification system. It went about as well as you'd expect.

https://www.freezenet.ca/roblox-age-verification-system-fooled-by-hand-drawn-facial-hair/

#Censorship #News #AgeVerification #AI #fail #Roblox

Pebble launched a smartwatch in the 2010s, received VC funding, grew to hundreds of employees and then sold to Fitbit in 2016. Bye-bye Pebble. Now, it's back, self-funded with a staff of five, and under the control of its original founder, Eric Migicovsky. @ieeespectrum talked to him about the the three new Pebble wearables, e-paper, open-sourcing, AI and more. “I just love the idea of a fun device that doesn’t take itself too seriously. I love looking forward to gadgets. So, we’re just going to build gadgets that we love,” says Migicovsky.

https://flip.it/PUBrpa

#Technology #Tech #Pebble #Wearables #SmartWatch #AI

There will never be an AI tool that
is truly private unless it hasn't trained on nonconsensual data.

Even if a platform were able to
create the perfect protections for its users' prompts and results,

If the platform is built from or utilizing an AI model that was trained on or is updated and optimized with data that was scraped from millions of people without their consent, then of course this platform isn't "privacy-respectful."

How could it be?

The company is saying:
"We respect the privacy of our users while they are using our platform, but outside of it, it's fair game."

Users thinking they are using a privacy-respectful platform are in fact saying:

"Privacy for me and not for thee,"

And are directly contributing to the platform needing to scrape even more nonconsensual data to improve.

Always ask: Where the training data comes from?

Without the assurance that a platform only uses AI models that have only been training on data acquired ethically, it is not a privacy-respectful platform.

#Privacy #AI #Consent #HumanRights #NoAI

Meta’s VR layoffs, studio closures underscore Mark Zuckerberg’s massive pivot to AI.

From CNBC: "Just over four years after Facebook changed its name to Meta, the company is scaling back its virtual reality ambitions."

https://flip.it/LrS14c

#Meta #AI #Zuckerberg #VR #Tech #Technology

Signal leaders warn agentic AI is an insecure, unreliable surveillance risk

https://coywolf.com/news/productivity/signal-president-and-vp-warn-agentic-ai-is-insecure-unreliable-and-a-surveillance-nightmare/

#HackerNews #Signal #AI #surveillance #insecure #unreliable #agenticAI #cybersecurity

CCIA calls for a balanced strategy to export the U.S. AI stack. That means pairing clear, trusted regulatory guidance with strong engagement to address foreign digital trade barriers. It also requires targeted financing to boost #AI exports across mature digital markets, fast-growing innovation hubs, and emerging economies. Read more: https://ccianet.org/news/2025/12/ccia-files-comments-in-american-ai-exports-program-urges-positive-strategy-for-exporting-u-s-ai/ 2/2

Digital services are a major engine of U.S. exports, generating $729.7 billion and a $282 billion trade surplus in 2024. Given the role of #AI in underpinning digital trade, the American AI Exports Program holds the potential to build on that strength and reinforce the United States’ technological and competitive edge worldwide. 1/2

The U.S. military is embracing Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot as it draws global outcry.

From @AssociatedPress: "[Defense Secretary Pete] Hegseth’s aggressive push to embrace the still-developing technology stands in contrast to the Biden administration, which, while pushing federal agencies to come up with policies and uses for AI, was also wary of misuse."

https://flip.it/Sv45qI

#Grok #AI #Pentagon #ElonMusk #Military #Tech

Attendees at CES 2026 saw boxing robots, card-playing robots, ping-pong-playing robots, dancing robots, robots that did the laundry, bots that sorted parts, and robots wearing elaborate costumes. But Boston Dynamics’ Atlas certainly caught the attention of @TechRadar’s Lance Ulanoff. Here’s why:

https://flip.it/MRktZC

#Tech #CES2026 #AI #Robots #Technology