#OpenWeb

[nickweisser]

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#Twitter has been my favorite social media platform, let's see if #Tumblr can change that. Follow me if you're interested in below hash tags:

[scienza-magia]

Contenuti open web per AI generativa

Secondo il leader di Microsoft AI fare scraping dei contenuti dell'open web è accettabile. Mustafa Suleyman, ha recentemente suscitato parecchio clamore per via della sua interpretazione della proprietà intellettuale nell'era del web aperto. Mustafa Suleyman, capo della divisione dedicata all'intelligenza artificiale di Microsoft, ha recentemente suscitato parecchio clamore per via della sua interpretazione della proprietà intellettuale nell'era del web aperto. Durante un'intervista con CNBC, condotta da Andrew Ross Sorkin, Suleyman ha espresso la convinzione che una volta pubblicato un contenuto sul web aperto, esso diventi di fatto "freeware", ovvero libero da qualsiasi vincolo di copyright, rendendolo liberamente copiabile e utilizzabile da chiunque. La sua affermazione ha sollevato questioni correlate alla legalità dell'uso dei dati da parte delle aziende dedicate all'intelligenza artificiale, in particolare riguardo alla formazione dei modelli di AI generativa. Microsoft, insieme alla sua partner OpenAI, è attualmente oggetto di multiple cause legali che accusano le due aziende di utilizzare contenuti protetti da copyright per addestrare i loro modelli di AI. Di fronte a tali contestazioni, le dichiarazioni di Suleyman possono apparire come una difesa delle pratiche aziendali. Nel diritto statunitense, la creazione di un lavoro comporta automaticamente la protezione attraverso il copyright, la quale non viene annullata dalla semplice pubblicazione online. In realtà, è così complicato rinunciare a tali diritti che sono state create delle licenze web speciali per facilitare la gestione di questi contenuti. Il concetto di "uso lecito" o fair use, per esempio, non è determinato da un "contratto sociale", ma viene stabilito da una corte, che valuta vari aspetti come la natura del materiale copiato, il motivo della copia, la quantità di contenuto utilizzato e l'eventuale danno all’autore originale. Suleyman ha anche fatto riferimento, nel corso dell'intervista, all'idea dei robots.txt come metodo per indicare agli algoritmi di scraping di non utilizzare i dati di un sito. Questi file .txt servono a comunicare quali bot possono o non possono eseguire lo scraping delle informazioni di un sito web. Tuttavia, i files robots.txt non hanno valore legale, ma rappresentano piuttosto un accordo di cortesia presente sul web fin dagli anni '90. La questione dei diritti di utilizzo dei contenuti pubblicati online, e delle normative che regolano l'IA, sono temi complessi e attualmente oggetto di numerosi dibattiti e procedimenti giudiziari. L'approccio delle aziende di IA, la loro interpretazione delle leggi e il loro impatto sulle proprietà intellettuali continueranno a essere questioni centrali nel dibattito sull'evoluzione della tecnologia e della normativa in merito. Read the full article

[gurupanguji]

Chrome's Energy Saver mode

Chrome Energy Saver mode really saves battery - even on an M-series Mac. #chrome #mac #browser

In case you don’t use this, I highly recommend turning Chrome’s energy saver mode on. It does have an impact, esp when it comes to buttery smooth scrolling. The energy savings are drastic enough that Chrome’s becoming my default browser on my portable again.

[visionontv]

Our #AP #openweb reboot is being destroyed by our #fahernistas and #geekproblem

We need to think of a serendipity view of how #hashtags work and how our coder kings implement them. Not saying this is a good aproch… i don’t know… but spelling hashtags “wrong” makes their use in categorization and sorting work differently. Might be worth thinking if this could add value or is purely negative? This depends on different views on federation and ideas of a universal truth or messy…

[mariacallous]

“Video has come out from Bucks County, Pennsylvania showing a ballot counter destroying ballots for Donald Trump and keeping Kamala Harris's ballots for counting,” an account called “Dan from Ohio” wrote in the comment section of the far-right website Gateway Pundit. “Why hasn't this man been arrested?”

But Dan is not from Ohio, and the video he mentioned is fake. He is in fact one of hundreds of inauthentic accounts posting in the unmoderated spaces of right-wing news site comment sections as part of a Russian disinformation campaign. These accounts were discovered by researchers at media watchdog NewsGuard, who shared their findings with WIRED.

“NewsGuard identified 194 users that all target the same articles, push the same pro-Russian talking points and disinformation narratives, while masquerading as disgruntled Western citizens,” the report states. The researchers found these fake accounts posting comments in four pro-Trump US publications: the Gateway Pundit, the New York Post, Breitbart, and Fox News. They were also posting similar comments in the Daily Mail, a UK tabloid, and French website Le Figaro.

“FOX News Digital’s comment sections are monitored continuously in real time by the outside company OpenWeb which services multiple media organizations,” a spokesperson for the company tells WIRED. “Comments made by fake personas and professional trolls are removed as soon as issues are brought to our attention by both OpenWeb and the additional internal oversight mechanisms we have in place.”

Breitbart replied to WIRED's request for comment in Russian: "Пожалуйста, скажите Newsguard, чтобы они пошли на хуй." In English, this means "please tell Newsguard to go fuck themselves."

The Gateway Pundit and the New York Post did not respond to a request for comment from WIRED.

“The actors behind this campaign appear to be exploiting a particularly vulnerable part of the media landscape,” McKenzie Sadeghi, the AI and foreign influence editor at NewsGuard, tells WIRED. “Comment sections designed to foster reader engagement lack robust security measures, allowing bad actors to post freely, change identities, and create the illusion of genuine grassroots campaigns rather than orchestrated propaganda.”

The disinformation narratives being pushed by these accounts are linked to Storm-1516, according to Newsguard. Storm-1516 is a Russian disinformation campaign with a history of posting fake videos to push Kremlin talking points to the West that was also connected to the release of deepfake video falsely claiming to show a whistlelbower making allegations of sexual assault against vice presidential candidate and Minnesota governor Tim Walz. (WIRED first reported that the Walz video was part of a campaign by Storm-1516. A day later, the US government confirmed WIRED’s reporting.)

Links to the video were posted by multiple accounts with names like “Disobedient Truth” and “Private Patriot” in the comment section of outlets like Breitbart and the Gateway Pundit.

“More bad news for the Dems: Breaking: Tim Walz's former student, Matthew Metro, drops a shocking allegation- claims Walz s*xually assaulted him in 1997 while Walz was his teacher at Mankato West High School,” the comments read.

The links posted in the comments came hours before the video was shared on social media platforms like X, where it racked up millions of views.

After the Bucks County video went viral, researchers quickly traced it back to Storm 1516. US intelligence agencies then confirmed Russia was behind the fake video.

Russian influence operations have, in the past, made use of comment sections to boost their narratives, including during their campaign to disrupt the 2016 elections. This is the first time this tactic has been reported as part of Russia’s efforts to disrupt the 2024 presidential election.

“Replying in threads is a tactic that can have an impact with very little investment,” Darren Linvill, codirector at Clemson University’s Media Forensics Hub, tells WIRED. “By inserting disinformation into an unrelated conversation it might be seen, even if the account being used has no followers and was just created yesterday. It also doesn't matter if the account you are using is caught and shut down because you haven't lost an investment, you can just create another account five minutes later.”

The fake comments, Newsguard found, are also then used in reports from Russian state-backed media outlets to bolster claims about how Western audiences are responding to a particular incident.

After the Trump assassination attempt in July, Tsargrad TV published an article titled “Biden's Trace in Trump's Assassination Attempt. Americans Agree with the Kremlin's Version: ‘Russians Are Right.’” The article outlined how Americans believe that the Biden administration played a part in the shooting, citing “comments to articles in Western media” as evidence.

NewsGuard’s researchers identified 104 articles in Russian state media that cited comments from Western news outlets as evidence to back up their claims between January and August of this year.

“This tactic allows bad actors to reduce the risk of detection and embed propaganda in a subtle, seemingly organic way, blending it into the casual commentary of supposed everyday Western readers,” Sadeghi said. “The repetition of the same claim across multiple formats and contexts can create a sense of familiarity that may lend the narratives an appearance of credibility.”

The network of accounts has also been used to seed other narratives, including one earlier this month where dozens of comments in the New York Post and Breitbart claimed, without evidence, that Ukrainian president Volodmyr Zelensky had used Western military aid to purchase a car that once belonged to Adolf Hitler.

That claim has been spread by the network of inauthentic websites controlled by former Florida cop John Dougan, who now lives in Moscow and runs a network of pro-Kremlin websites. Dougan’s network of websites have previously shared disinformation narratives from Storm-1516.

[rainbowdaisy13]

She's bringing him to NYC. Great. Instead of silently supporting Karlie for NYFW, Taylor's pulling this shit, because as a "mastermind", she can't even control the other team to not overreact to rumors. Now it's all hands on deck again to sell it. And I'm supposed to think these empty people, who only chase greed, are out there planning something grand that's gonna turn Hollywood upside down. Give me a fucking break!

Karlie went 3 week post partum to Eras, in a sea of haters Taylor created for her, to support her partner. Taylor can't do the same for Karlie at ONE fashion show, because she's above this. Selling the thing with Travis is more important now. Just go ahead and rival your arch enemy Kim and release a sex tape. I'm sorry Rain for being so heated in your ask, but I'm SO done. I gave this women my money for merch and shit. I feel scammed now when she promotes homophobes and MAGAs. Please don't block me

https://pagesix.com/2024/09/06/celebrity-news/taylor-swift-and-travis-kelce-jet-out-of-kansas-city-after-chiefs-win/#nypost-openweb-conversation

https://x.com/barbiehines/status/1831758522901791177

I only block people who repeatedly want to argue with me on Anon and/or are being a dickhead unnecessarily—take care of yourself & delete the ap for a bit if it’s too much right now—and it is too much WHEW

[ultravioart]

Oh God damn it.

Please boycott Palworld, apparently Pocketpair (devs of Palworld) a few years ago(?) made a party game that hosted a generative ai art model. Fuck that. Those models (Stable diffusion, etc) are created by abusing workers, and use unethical openweb datasets (private medical data, NSFL material, copyrighted material etc all gets used in openweb datasets).

I instantly drop any series that flirts with ai. Why twitter.com waited until Palworld's release to post about the past ai bs is beyond me, I would have liked to know that before purchasing. :/ Palworld was announced YEARS ago.

I had honestly thought Craftopia was the first game Pocketpair released because the YouTube videos I had watched of playthroughs had said it was thier first game release???

And I thought generative ai models were not allowed on steam?!?! apparently Steam changed the rules to allow generative ai models/assets in games, but only if they are tagged as using ai. Ugh. Way to worsen literacy of what ai actually means! (Populating a forest with randomized trees in a video game uses generative ai, but not the unethical kind. Same premise can be done with buildings, etc.)

Sigh. Lesson learned. :( Be sure to dig up the game dev before purchasing. This is so disappointing, I wish I could refund Palworld.

Palworld as is at launch does not seem to use any ai generated art. Generative ai that produce 3d models from text prompts are no where near the quality of the creature models, so it seems all models and animations have been done by hand at least. But with the dev's past history I am very concerned that Pocketpair may incorporate ai or worse, NFTs, into Palworld or future games. :(

So yeah, please don't financially support Palworld. I don't trust Pocketpair.

[nando161mando]

"Repeat a 1,000 times: #Google is an #advertising moloch and #Chrome browser monopolist, NOT your friendly free service provider!

Google is about to smack down on the #OpenWeb, killing it with their so-called "Web Environment Integrity API" #DRM proposal.

"Wanna watch those #Netflix or #Youtube vids? Better have Chrome without #AdBlocker then"

"Here's plenty #ads. Now hand over your #PII so we can grow our #SurveillanceCapitalism empire"

#GiveUpGoogle #DitchChrome

[fromjasonxp]

Drama at OpenWeb, as a new CEO is announced – and the founding CEO says he’s staying | TechCrunch:

OpenWeb’s chairman, Tim Harvey, sent an email to employees, saying he’s becoming CEO and thanking longtime CEO Nadav Shoval for his “incredible passion.” Soon after, Shoval shared his own message to employees, claiming the “board has falsely stated that I am stepping out of my role as CEO . . .that is not true and not my intent.” Shoval further accused the board of breaching his contract.

Openweb’s mission is to end online toxicity.

[gurupanguji]

Safari 16.4 is an admission

A great post from Alex Russell about the bevy of new features that landed in Safari 16.4.

[voiceofentrepreneurlife]

OpenWeb's founding CEO Nadav Shoval

OpenWeb’s founder and CEO, Nadav Shoval, has rejected stepping down after the company’s board of directors named Tim Harvey as the interim CEO, as revealed in a LinkedIn post.

“I have not stepped down as OpenWeb’s CEO,” Shoval stated in his LinkedIn post.

According to a recent Fortune report, the board of directors appointed Tim Harvey, chairman of the content moderation platform, as the new acting CEO earlier this week.

In addition, Shoval said that by announcing a change in leadership rather than addressing conduct issues, the board had violated his employment contract.

I recently informed the company that they breached my contract, which was meant to directly address troubling conduct by the Board of Directors. In his statement, Shoval said, “The Board chose to act against OpenWeb’s best interests by announcing a leadership transition at an unexpected company-wide meeting rather than finding a solution to the problems.

Shoval’s post also emphasized his refusal to accept the board’s decision.

“I do not agree with these actions. I will continue to fight for OpenWeb’s mission and purpose alongside our team,” Shoval reiterated in his post.Read More-https://voiceofentrepreneur.life/

[ujjinatd]

Drama en OpenWeb: anuncian nuevo CEO, y el CEO fundador dice que se queda Web abiertauna startup de Nueva Yor... https://ujjina.com/drama-en-openweb-anuncian-nuevo-ceo-y-el-ceo-fundador-dice-que-se-queda/?feed_id=760461&_unique_id=66e288cf90bbe

[isfeed]

Drama at OpenWeb, as a new CEO is announced – and the founding CEO says he’s staying

OpenWeb, a New York startup whose tools help publishers engage users, has a unique problem. Its co-founding CEO reportedly won’t leave, even though it announced a new CEO. According to CTech, on Tuesday, OpenWeb’s chairman, Tim Harvey, sent an email to employees, saying he’s becoming CEO and thanking longtime CEO Nadav Shoval for his “incredible […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For…

[safesoundelectric]

A Bright Spark of Hope for the Open Web

Safe & Sound Electric is excited about ActivityPub's potential for a more open internet! We're committed to building a brighter digital future. Join us! #ActivityPub #OpenWeb

Hey there, Safe and Sound Electric checking in! We’re keeping our fingers crossed for ActivityPub. Sure, there might be some hiccups along the way, but the whole idea of a decentralized, user-controlled internet? Now that’s something we can really get behind. You know how they say, “Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst”? Well, we’re definitely feeling that. We know building a truly open…