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  • jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Adobe’s ‘Ethical’ Firefly AI Was Trained on Midjourney ImagesEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Adobe said a relatively small amount — about 5% — of the images used to train its AI tool was generated by other AI platforms. “Every image submitted to Adobe Stock, including a very small subset of images generated with AI, goes through a rigorous moderation process to ensure it does not include IP, trademarks, recognizable characters or logos, or reference artists’ names,” a company spokesperson said.

    Adobe Stock’s library has boomed since it began formally accepting AI content in late 2022. Today, there are about 57 million images, or about 14% of the total, tagged as AI-generated images. Artists who submit AI images must specify that the work was created using the technology, though they don’t need to say which tool they used. To feed its AI training set, Adobe has also offered to pay for contributors to submit a mass amount of photos for AI training — such as images of bananas or flags.

  • jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•This Woman Will Decide Which Babies Are BornEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I would not blindly trust those people either, if they are human they are corruptible as well.

    Looking at certain ‘scientific background’ people they act just like politicians, if you take the time to look into them and their activities.

    I am just saying to be criticial and do not treat them like celebrity worship status, because I have done that mistake with politicians as well.

    We must stay criticial of people in power and with money/influence.

  • jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•This Woman Will Decide Which Babies Are BornEnglish
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    8 months ago

    How much does an Orchid screening cost?

    It’s $2,500 per embryo.

    And presumably you’d be screening several embryos. What about for families that can’t afford that?

    We have a philanthropic program, so people can apply to that, and we’re excited to accept as many cases as we can.

    I must now ask a question I’ve been dreading. I’m sorry in advance. Here goes. It’s the inevitable question about Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes.

    No, this is the worst question. This is so mean.

    Tell me why it’s so mean.

    I find it sad. It’s a sad state of affairs where—my friends who aren’t even in health, they say they get it too. It’s like, any female CEO with any tech-adjacent thing is constantly being questioned—by the way, are you like this other fraud? Do you want to comment on this other random fraud that occurred that has absolutely nothing to do with you besides the person being the same gender as you?

    If you’re trying to charitably understand where this question is coming from, how do you do that?

    What would be the charitable interpretation—besides that our society is incredibly misogynistic and men’s frauds and failings are passed aside and when one female does it she stands for every other female CEO ever?

    So there’s no charitable interpretation.

    I don’t think there is. Society treats men as, like, default credible. For a woman, the default is skeptical.

  • jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Meta accused of ‘massive, illegal’ data collection operation by European consumer rights groups. | CNN BusinessEnglish
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    9 months ago

    The groups claim that Meta (META) collects an unnecessary amount of information on its users — such as data used to infer their sexual orientation, emotional state or even their susceptibility to addiction — which they are unable to freely consent to.

    “With its illegal practices, Meta fuels the surveillance-based ads system which tracks consumers online and gathers vast amounts of personal data for the purpose of showing them adverts,” the BEUC said in a statement.

    Last May, EU regulators fined the tech giant a record-breaking €1.2 billion ($1.3 billion) for violating GDPR rules by transferring the personal data of Facebook users to servers in the United States.

    In October, EU regulators forced Meta to start asking for explicit consent from its users to process their personal information for the purpose of delivering them targeted advertisements.

    But the BEUC argued Thursday that Meta’s subscription service offers users “an unfair and misleading choice” as its data processing isn’t transparent, meaning users cannot know how subscribing would change the way their information is processed. Moreover, Meta’s market dominance means that users cannot easily leave its platforms without cutting themselves off from their family and friends.