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With AI, Anyone Can Be a Victim of Nonconsensual Porn. Can Laws Keep Up?
States around the country are scrambling to respond to the dramatic rise in deepfakes, a result of little regulation and easy-to-use apps
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Apocalypse Not
Why do tech people love talking about the end of the world?
Machine Learning
Teachers Are Using AI to Create New Worlds, Help Students with Homework, and Teach English
Around the world, these seven teachers are making AI work for them and their students
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What Happens When Your Art Is Used to Train AI
A conversation with web cartoonist Dorothy Gambrell on the curdled internet, labor, and how we became just numbers
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How Automated Content Moderation Works (Even When It Doesn’t)
Instagram, YouTube, and other platforms moderate billions of posts—here are some of their common techniques
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How We Investigated Shadowbanning on Instagram
We found that Instagram heavily demoted nongraphic images of war, deleted captions and hid comments without notification, suppressed hashtags, and limited users’ ability to appeal moderation decisions
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Demoted, Deleted, and Denied: There’s More Than Just Shadowbanning on Instagram
An investigation by The Markup found that the platform demoted images of the Israel–Hamas war, deleted captions without warning, and denied users the option to appeal
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What to Do If You Think You’ve Been Shadowbanned on Instagram
How to appeal, check violations, and more
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A Virtual Reality Tour of Surveillance Tech at the Border
A conversation with Dave Maass of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
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What Happens to Your Sensitive Data When a Data Broker Goes Bankrupt?
Data on sensitive locations, such as abortion clinics, could be sold off, raising alarms
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