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Inside: Hypothetical AI election disinformation risks vs real AI harms; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/27/ai-conspiracies/

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Real harm:

"Nearly 1,000 British postmasters were wrongly convicted of fraud by Horizon, the faulty AI fraud-hunting system that Fujitsu provided to the Royal Mail. They had their lives ruined by this faulty AI, many went to prison, and at least four of the AI's victims killed themselves:"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal

GhostOnTheHalfShell ,
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@pluralistic How long before we see cities shut down because data centers win water rights?

I am thinking California’s Owen’s Valley. Just as powerful interests are in play.

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I'm on tour with my new novel The Bezzle! Catch me TONIGHT in PORTLAND at Powell's. After that, it's Phoenix (Feb 29, Changing Hands), Tucson, San Francisco, Anaheim and more!

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/16/narrative-capitalism/#bezzle-tour

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Hypothetical AI election disinformation risks vs real AI harms: And those real AI harms are priming people to believe disinformation.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112003688707429541

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18+ pluralistic OP ,
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Hey look at this

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Conan and copyright, by Crom! https://web.archive.org/web/20090228111053/http://www.robert-e-howard.org/AnotherThought4rerevised.html

What were arcades like, Grandpa? https://memex.craphound.com/2009/02/27/what-were-arcades-like-grandpa/

Ian McDonald’s “Cyberabad Days” — short stories in 2047 India that blend technology with spirituality, love, sex, war and humanity https://memex.craphound.com/2009/02/27/ian-mcdonalds-cyberabad-days-short-stories-in-2047-india-that-blend-technology-with-spirituality-love-sex-war-and-humanity/

GCHQ spied on millions of Yahoo video chats, harvested sexual images of chatters, compared itself to “Tom Cruise in Minority Report” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/27/gchq-nsa-webcam-images-internet-yahoo

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Boeing’s self-destructing, tamper-resistant spookphone: the Black https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/boeings-black-this-android-phone-will-self-destruct/

Guest review: my daughter reviews Ariol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Dkj81uRN9Q

Fox hit with $179m (including $128m in punitive damages) judgment over shady bookkeeping on “Bones” https://variety.com/2019/biz/news/fox-bones-arbitration-emily-deschanel-179-million-1203150879/

AOC grills Equifax CEO: the Congressional record now contains the obvious, infuriating truth that everyone else already knew https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/02/11/rep-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-takes-aim-equifax-credit-scoring/

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Bunnie Huang’s tour-de-force explanation of how hardware implants and supply chain hacks work https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=5519

Pluralistic: Podcasting "Twiddler" https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/27/knob-jockeys/

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Yesterday's threads: Incomplete vs. overshoot; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111998870180303294

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A group of women's May Day marchers from the 1900 May Day labor march, dressed in period costume. In the foreground are two horizontally flipped images of a furious, hair-pulling Tweedledum as depicted by Tenniel. The left one is colored red and wears a sign that reads WRONG WAY GO BACK. The right one is colored green and wears a sign that reads NO STOPPING PLEASE PULL FORWARD.
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    I'm on tour with my new novel The Bezzle! Catch me TONIGHT in PORTLAND at Powell's. After that, it's Phoenix (Feb 29, Changing Hands), Tucson, San Francisco, Anaheim and more!

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    I can't remember. Is this part of one your series, or is it a stand alone work?

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    @trabex It's a standalone followup to last year's RED TEAM BLUES. You can read them in any order.

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    Yay! Thank you! :)

    When I put Chokepoint Capitalism on interlibrary reserve, the local library bought it. Still sitting on the new shelf. :)

    I'll check out Bezzle too.

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    @trabex Thanks!

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    I wish I had seen this earlier, I assume this was Portland Maine and not Portland OR?

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