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Deepfakes circulate of AI “Pan-Africans” backing Burkina Faso’s military junta • FRANCE 24 English

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Deepfakes circulate of AI “Pan-Africans” backing Burkina Faso’s military junta • FRANCE 24 English from YouTube

We investigate AI-generated videos that call for support for the Burkinabe military junta and its leader Ibrahim Traore, just days after the junta ordered Fr…

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EUyEADrp5M&ab_channel=FRANCE24English[/embed] We investigate AI-generated videos that call for support for the Burkinabe military junta and its leader Ibrahim Traore, just days after the junta ordered French troops to leave the country. We take a closer look in this edition of Truth or Fake with Vedika Bahl.

Pluralistic: Tiktok’s enshittification (21 Jan 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

TikTok Enshittification, a cartoon drawing of TikTok as the witch and potential users as Hansel and Gretel
Pluralistic: Tiktok’s enshittification (21 Jan 2023) by Cory DoctorowCory Doctorow (pluralistic.net)

https://i0.wp.com/craphound.com/images/21Jan2023.jpg?w=840&ssl=1 https://i0.wp.com/craphound.com/images/21Jan2023.jpg?w=840&ssl=1 Today’s links Tiktok’s enshittification: The company manually allocates surplus to creators, and they can take it away again, too. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate…

Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the…

Ways to weigh a neutrino | symmetry magazine

Ways to Weigh a Neutrino
Ways to weigh a neutrino (symmetry magazine)

For decades scientists have tried to find a way to measure the mass of the lightest matter particle known to exist. Three new approaches now have a chance to succeed.

If you were asked to weigh something—your dog for example—how would you do it? You could set the dog in your car, watch the compression, measure how many inches the car is displaced, then convert that into a measurement of the dog’s mass. You’d need to know the weight of the car, the technical specifications of…

German cartel office initiates proceedings against PayPal

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German cartel office initiates proceedings against PayPal (Yahoo Finance)

Germany’s cartel office regulator said on Monday it had initiated proceedings against payment company PayPal Europe over the possibility that it hindered competition.

The subject of the proceedings was PayPal’s rules for extra charges and the presentation of PayPal in the terms of use for Germany, the watchdog said. PayPal did not immediately reply to a request for comment.The regulator is investigating in particular rules that say merchants may not offer their goods and services at a lower…

The Black Diaspora in Israel, 1965 to 2011 •

A photo of two Black Hebrew men crossing the street at a crosswalk.
The Black Diaspora in Israel, 1965 to 2011 by Dafnah Strauss (blackpast.org)

With the exception of the well-publicized Operation Moses, Joshua, and Solomon Airlift of 20,000 Ethiopian Jews from that war and famine ravaged nation to Israel between 1984 and 1991, few people outside the Middle East are aware of the tens of thousands of people of African ancestry living in the J…

Black Bedouin are the descendents of African slaves purchased by Bedouins, the semi-nomadic Arab population in the Negev desert region of southern Israel. The Israeli black Bedouin number 10,000 out of approximately 180,000 Bedouin in the country. Although slavery has been illegal in Israel since the nation’s founding in 1948, the black Bedouin are still referred…

AI art tools Stable Diffusion and Midjourney targeted with copyright lawsuit – The Verge

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AI art tools Stable Diffusion and Midjourney targeted with copyright lawsuit by James Vincent (The Verge)

The creators of AI art generator tools — Stability AI, MidJourney, and DeviantArt — have been accused of copyright violation in a proposed class-action lawsuit launched by a trio of artists, Sarah Andersen, Kelly McKernan, and Karla Ortiz.

A trio of artists have launched a lawsuit against Stability AI and Midjourney, creators of AI art generators Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, and artist portfolio platform DeviantArt, which recently created its own AI art generator, DreamUp.The artists — Sarah Andersen, Kelly McKernan, and Karla Ortiz — allege that these organizations have infringed the rights of “millions…

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