EdTechSR Ep 319 Tech Titans Testify

Podcast January 31, 2024

Check out our Episode 319 from January 31, 2024! Here are all the links we discussed in the show:

1. ChatGPT’s new @-mentions bring multiple personalities into your AI convo (ArsTechnica, 31 Jan 2024)

2. Google News Is Boosting Garbage AI-Generated Articles (404 Media; 18 January 2023) - Archive.today version

3. Nightshade, the tool that ‘poisons’ data, gives artists a fighting chance against AI (TechCrunch; 26 January 2024)

4. Toxic Telegram group produced X’s X-rated fake AI Taylor Swift images, report says (ArsTechnica, 26 Jan 2024)

5. Teen boys use AI to make fake nudes of classmates, sparking police probe (ArsTechnica, 2 Nov 2023)

6. FBI director warns that Chinese hackers are preparing to ‘wreak havoc’ on US critical infrastructure (CNN, 31 Jan 2024)

7. Amazon confirms that Fire TV is dropping Android in deleted job listing (9 to 5 Google; 31 January 2024)

8. Accusations, tears and rants: 5 takeaways from today’s tech CEO hearing (CNN, 31 Jan 2024)

9. Pew report shows TikTok’s rise and YouTube’s ubiquity (TechCrunch; 31 January 2024)

10. The Media and Democracy Project names Elon Musk the “2023 Disinformer of the Year” (Media & Democracy Project, 31 Jan 2024)

11. Apple Vision Pro review: magic, until it’s not (The Verge; 30 January 2024)

12. The Vision Pro (Daring Fireball; 30 January 2024)

13. Apple is finally allowing full versions of Chrome and Firefox to run on the iPhone (The Verge; 25 January 2024)

14. Positive Misc

15. NASA’s Webb Depicts Staggering Structure in 19 Nearby Spiral Galaxies (NASA Webb Mission Team, 29 Jan 2024)

16. Jason’s Geek of the Week: Drop.com

17. Wes’ Geeks of the Week: Mediapocalypse Now + a16z’s Chris Dixon Defends Crypto + HatGPT (Hard Fork, 26 Jan 2024) and Voices from DARPA Podcast: Episode 73: The AI Cyber Challenge - CTF, Code, and Critical Infrastructure

Here are the links which made our show notes Google Doc, but we didn’t have time to discuss:

1. Apple aims to run AI models directly on iPhones, other devices (Ars Technica; 24 January 2024)

2. Elon Musk wants to merge humans with AI. How many brains will be damaged along the way? (Vox; 30 January 2024)

3. Cops bogged down by flood of fake AI child sex images, report says (ArsTechnica, 31 Jan 2024)

4. Google and Bing put nonconsensual deepfake porn at the top of some search results (NBC News, 11 Jan 2024)

Image Attribution: Created with ChatGPT4 and DALL-E 3, shared to Flickr.

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