AI backlash is coming for elections
…More than 60 percent of both Republicans and Democrats polled by Ipsos earlier this year agree that the government should regulate AI for economic stability and public safety, and that the technology…
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Skydio CEO Adam Bry on why Silicon Valley shouldn’t draw red lines for drone use
…There are policies keeping some of your competitors out of the country. There’s what you’re doing with autonomy and working with governments and militaries around the world. Then, there’s…
Amazon employees ask Seattle to put the brakes on new data centers
…Individual data center plans have been canceled or downscaled after local protest, and moratoriums have been proposed at all levels of government. New York’s state legislature just voted for a one…
Can Patreon fight fire with social media fire?
…One, over the years, we worked very closely with payment processors to understand their content policies and their constraints, and make sure that our content policy was acceptable to them. We co…
OpenAI made a TikTok for deepfakes, and it’s getting hard to tell what’s real
…They also said that the company moderates video output for potential policy violations and copyright issues. But people have gotten around that type of rule in the past, time and time again…
Grindr — yes, Grindr — won the WHCD party circuit
…The federal government is quietly eliminating benefits for same-sex couples. And if certain online safety laws pass and the anonymity of the internet disappears, the possibility of a Grindr user being…
Who decides when AI is too dangerous?
…Maybe you believe in aggressive government regulation, maybe you don’t. There’s a way to operate the regulatory efforts that is rigorous and thoughtful and careful and predictable. Nothing about this…
Internet Culture
…we inhabit, like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram; to the policies, laws and guidelines that govern them (or don’t); to the subcultures, communities, and memes that bring us together there — for…
America’s dangerous, messy deepfakes crackdown is here
A law requiring social networks to quickly remove sexual deepfakes and other nonconsensual imagery is now fully in force. But experts warn the policy could do little to help victims — and at…
Read this before you vibe-code another app
…It’s a striking approach because it is so rare, and because the ground beneath us is shifting so quickly. While working as head of government affairs and strategy at Lilt, he…