Students don’t have the same incentives to talk to their professors or even their classmates anymore — Instead, they are asking AI for help. What could go wrong?
AI is helping students be more independent, but the isolation could be career poison – The Markup
Chatbots may give students quick answers when they have questions, but they won’t help students form relationships that matter for college and li...
The bot couldn't: Describe a given wildfire’s containment accurately Provide a list for evacuation supplies Tell users about evacuation orders What else we found:
California's fire protection agency made an AI chatbot.  It can’t answer one crucial question – The Markup
The bot fails at some basic questions about fires. Cal Fire says it is working on fixes.
Schools and lawmakers are grappling with how to address a new form of peer-on-peer image-based sexual abuse that disproportionately targets girls. With The 19th:
Kids are making deepfakes of each other, and laws aren’t keeping up – The Markup
Schools and lawmakers are grappling with how to address a new form of peer-on-peer image-based sexual abuse that disproportionately targets girls.
The U.S. Senate voted not to interfere with state AI regulations, defeating a 10-year moratorium on such laws that had earlier cleared the House and alarmed California officials.
State AI regulations safe after Senate strips moratorium from ‘big, beautiful bill’ – The Markup
In the end, both Republicans and Democrats helped doom a 10-year moratorium on state AI regulation after it cleared the House
NEW: Colleges and universities renew Turnitin subscriptions year after year even though its flawed detectors are expensive and require students to let the company keep their papers forever.
California colleges spend millions to catch plagiarism and AI. Is the faulty tech worth it? – The Markup
Colleges and universities renew Turnitin subscriptions year after year even though its flawed detectors are expensive and require students to let t...
Is there anything I can do to stop my information from being leaked this way? The answer is yes 👇
This is how you stop data trackers from sucking up your health data – The Markup
The Markup and CalMatters found multiple ways consumers can block the trackers quietly sending your data to tech companies, including those used on...
State healthcare sites have been quietly sending sensitive user data to Google and LinkedIn. We scanned the websites of states that independently operate their own online health exchange, and found four states — Nevada, Maine, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts — exposed users’ sensitive health info. Our findings:
We caught 4 more states sharing personal health data with Big Tech – The Markup
Healthcare exchanges in Nevada, Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island shared users’ sensitive health data with companies like Google and LinkedIn
Schools’ web filters are supposed to block porn. Instead, they block useful info and prevent students from learning. And most students can find their way to access an unfiltered internet anyway:
Online Censorship In Schools Is ‘More Pervasive' Than Expected, New Data Shows – The Markup
Nationally representative survey data from The Center for Democracy & Technology finds schools subjectively and broadly block students from informa...
A hack of location data company Gravy Analytics has revealed which apps are—knowingly or not—being used to collect your information behind the scenes.
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Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location
A hack of location data company Gravy Analytics has revealed which apps are—knowingly or not—being used to collect your information behind the ...
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Immigrant communities are particularly impacted by misinfo. That’s why educating our elders can be so important. What that looks like in Lam's Vietnamese immigrant community:
How I Explained AI and Deepfakes Using Only Basic Vietnamese – The Markup
Using slides, hand gestures, and the Vietnamese vocabulary of a five-year-old, we talked about fake faces