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Such a bummer. Really hoped Niantic would be at the vanguard of the spatial computing revolution during my metaverse days… www.gamedeveloper.com/business/nia...

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It will never help you individually but it is in fact really important for Microsoft visibility into detecting bugs and proving the need to spend the time to address them. Telemetry is better thought of as voting for your use case and problems. This is why my company does not turn off telemetry.

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For @futurism.com, in light of last week's Quartz news: here's a recap of Jim Spanfeller's many attempts to use generative AI to churn out cynical, low-quality content on G/O Media-owned sites, and how those efforts have repeatedly preceded sales and editorial layoffs. futurism.com/quartz-fires...

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Matt Perault, a16z’s head of AI policy, argues for a use-based approach to regulate AI. In privacy debates, this always seems like the platonic ideal for regulation, but it also produces a bit of whack-a-mole. I’m also not sure how this plays with AI doomers.

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NEWS: More than 500 law firms sign on to an amicus brief in support of Perkins Coie amid the firm’s legal battle against Trump’s executive order targeting its business. Read the list of firms that signed the brief authored by former SG Don Verrilli: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Once a quiet piece of internet plumbing, robots.txt is now in the spotlight, write Audrey Hingle and Mallory Knodel. AI has turned this humble file, long used to guide web crawlers for search, research, and more, into ground zero for debates about consent, control, and digital exploitation.

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Did not expect to get a full throated call for a federal data portability regulation at YC’s Little Tech Competition Summit!

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Contributing to genAI as patriotic duty: “What if we compared this to voting in an election? It’s not a perfect metaphor, but what if we saw our data as having a similar impact?”

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No @nyulaw.bsky.social either.

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In Privacyland, this is almost always how companies talk about “innovation” when opposing any sort of reasonable privacy restriction. Well said by Natali Helberger for @politico.com: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

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Right now there are a lot of new eyes on Signal, and not all of them are familiar with secure messaging and its nuances. Which means there’s misinfo flying around that might drive people away from Signal and private communications. 1/

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obvious new business model is: clone army

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the pang i just felt at remembering how controversial this was before we decided we’d put up with anything

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“As it stands right now, Bluesky is a public website, and as such, generative AI platforms and other forms of data scraping, like Google Search, have free reign over what they find there.” Robots.txt to the rescue?

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"But I worry that the arc of the #Metaverse, unlike the moral universe, doesn't seem to bend toward justice--it just flaps around in a wind of whims.” www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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And this, dear friends, is why you should not use genAI as a search engine. It's not a search engine. It's a different tool.

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Yep, absolutely nailed it, Google AI. No notes.

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Pulling out the tail end of this to emphasize it - the context all this is happening in.

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Privacy. Antitrust. AI. Where’s the Senate been? deadline.com/2023/09/sena...

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“This isn’t game design; it’s hostage negotiation.” medium.com/design-bootc...

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U.S. Tech Investors, Trade Associations, and Companies Support the EU Digital Markets Act, from @politico.eu www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ug08f...

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Okay, @daniel-solove.bsky.social having a conversation with an invisible incognito-mode @hartzog.bsky.social is one of the funnier things I’ve seen this year.

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“With privacy, it’s a ‘can do’ mentality. With copyright, it’s a ‘cannot’ mentality.” Nice observation from the IP professor and privacy master @daniel-solove.bsky.social at @futureofprivacy.bsky.social’s Privacy Papers event.

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“Ensuring data portability regulations function as intended requires robust enforcement that prevents gatekeepers from using their control over APIs to entrench their dominance.”

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#enshittification "In September, Southwest’s then chief transformation officer, Ryan Green, told analysts that an analysis showed Southwest would lose more money from passengers defecting to rivals if it started charging for bags than it would make from the fees.”

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Since Google won’t provide any details here, I’m sure Google’s amicus army will be spinning up soon to undermine competition law. www.theverge.com/news/626502/...

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"An economy that is too concentrated, those concentrated entities can exert an outsized influence on our political system."

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Every day the future is more and more Cyberpunk.

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Not sure how I missed this, but VR demos being used as evidence in stand your ground hearings seems sus. Beware the #metaverse. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXSG...

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Picked up a copy of the Freep while going down memory lane at @bostonu.bsky.social and very happy to see BU students are still doing the Lord’s work.

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Just happened to be playing tourist in Beantown today…

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New Coke-flavored DOJ still just as tough on Google as Classic-flavored DOJ. Can’t wait for Google’s corporate comms!

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