welcome to another episode of tech news Siri we know you're watching and you're
welcome because according to new research from proof news Tech Giants including Apple anthropic and NVIDIA
have been training their AI models using transcripts from Over 170,000 YouTube
videos this Trove included work of big internet stars like Mr Beast PewDiePie
Jack Septic ey and Marquez Brown Lee but also clips from major television shows
like Jimmy Kimmel Live last week's night and The Late Show with Steven colar
these transcripts weren't taken directly by these companies but were collected by
a third party nonprofit called elther
elther AI That's a weird combination of letters as part of the pile an open
source data set intended to help academics and small developers to train
their own AI models and not as it might sound a giant hemorrhoid the material
appears to have been scraped entirely without the original Creator's
permission obviously these transcripts are generated from copyrighted material
made by human artists with bills and mortgages but as pointed out by marz
Brown Lee he uses a paid transcription service rather than generated subtitles
meaning those transcripts are kind of copyrighted squared in addition to
educational videos from KH Academy MIT and Harvard the database also contains
materials from conspiracy theorists and Flat Earth videos so don't be shocked
when you ask directions and Siri gives you a lecture about the danger of
chemtrails The Horizon's a myth three of the world's largest record companies
Universal Warner and Sony Music have launched a $2.6 billion lawsuit against
Vari Verizon alleging that the Telecom company has profited from ignoring
widespread piracy according to the suit Verizon should be held liable for its
decision to continue to provide internet services to thousands of flagrant
Pirates it's not clear How likely this lawsuit is to succeed given that it
closely resembles a previous lawsuit by the same plaintiffs against Cox
Communications that suit found that Cox was guilty of failing to stop piracy but
wound up overturned on appeal because Cox didn't actually make any money from
the infringement see while it's obviously true that Verizon makes more
money if it doesn't Force its paying customers to walk the plank the moment
they download bit torrent it actually makes the same amount of money whether or not you steal bird demic shock and
Terror or you pay for it like a good boy meta has launched a small pilot program
that will give researchers access to Instagram's own data so they can study
the app's effect on teenagers and young adults meta is now accepting proposals
for studies and will accept up to seven submissions one for each deadly sin
however researchers still need to obtain consent from study participants and
their parents it's still unclear how extensive this information access will
be but it's a notable step given meta's past hostility towards researchers prior
research has shown a distinct correlation between heavy social media
use and mental health issues like anxiety and depression especially in
teenagers what's less clear however is whether the kids are sad because they're
on Instagram all the time or if they're on Instagram all the time because
they're sad regardless parents and legislators are concerned and it's
driving more and more scrutiny from Regulators Tik Tok lost its recent legal
challenge to the eu's decision to classify it as a very large online
platform on account of the size of its parent company and because it's the
social media equivalent of free basing but why spend all your time on there
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in the description if you made it through our main stories but wish they
could have been slightly quickier congratulations it's the quick pits
they're here noct's new nhd15 G2 cooler
is leaving some users rattled specifically their coolers they're
rattling after a report from Hardware Busters and customer complaints Noctua
says they're investigating the issue noctu believes the problem could be
temporarily fixed by using tape or foam until they find a permanent solution but
they're also offering full refunds as much as we love to HW Tua for no Tua
it seems that even the beian brown giant can avoid QA issues thankfully Noctua
has a good reputation for customer support So as they say in the companies
native Austria you got a problem with Noctua you talk to
her Google has announced project Oscar an open source platform allowing
developers to create AI agents to help manage their open source projects for
example the agent can summarize and highlight relevant information in issue
reports from users rather than have the AI code which is an awful idea that has
only ever gone wrong The Hope seems to be that the agents can help with the
disruptions and toil I guess I don't understand why someone would want to use
this I'm pretty sure the only reason to maintain an open source project is to
suffer thanklessly while making no money it's a feature not a bug apple is making
a Squidward Ian attempt to prevent a future where everything is Chrome with a
new hitchcockian ad for Safari Apple
continues to beat the dead horse saying they care about privacy
and we'll keep plumbling the deceased stallion saying they don't care about
your privacy they just want your data with them in their sandbox also it's not
like they've stopped accepting Google's multi-billion dollar bribes to make
Google the default search engine in Safari at least not until Regulators
force them to stop also Apple I don't know whose idea this was but maybe you
should stop feeding your AI videos about birds aren't real they're real they're
glorious oh God he's in on it research and Recovery company RMS Titanic Inc is
prepared to s remote submers down 12,000 ft to take 3D scans of the wreck of the
Titanic this is the first mission to the wreck since the implosion of the Titan
submersible last year but this Expedition is intended to preserve
knowledge for study rather than turn thinking breathing humans into soup I
prefer to think of it as a chowder in similar news drone manufacturer DJI has
released highquality footage of Mount Everest taking with a DJI mavic 3 Pro
now you can travel from base camp to Summit and you don't even have to step
over the frozen bodies of dead billionaires to get there the FTC has
said Health can no longer scan your little man with their app Cala it aims
to be an AI pecker protector that could detect 10 STI that Scourge your corette
with 94% accuracy that's a one in 20 chance they can screw up identifying a
bug in your love Slug and that's just the STI you can see turns out the app
can only accurately detect four diseases between your knes and could be fooled by
inanimate knob jaacks like phallic vases and pastries I mean that's what I think
every time I look at a croissant looks like you should block the AI schlock get
a doct to gawk at your penis and doctors
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