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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)

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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…

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…

ChatGPT Creator OpenAI and Microsoft Announced Extended Partnership

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ChatGPT Creator OpenAI and Microsoft Announce Extended Partnership by Joshua RamosJoshua Ramos (watcher.guru)

OpenAI and Microsoft have announced an extension of their partnership according to a published statement. The artificial intelligence research lab and the tech giant have orchestrated a “multi-year, multi-billion dollar investment,” in the extension.

The two platforms had previously collaborated on work together through Microsoft investments in both 2019 and 2021. Moreover, the ChatGPT creator has stated that the investing partnership will fuel their continued research into the rather uncharted domain of artificial intelligence. Source: ChatGPT Creator OpenAI and Microsoft Announced Extended Partnership

The Wasted Effort On Large Platforms for Small Businesses

Head in the Galaxy by Nicole T. Lasher, a partially AI assisted digital drawing of a woman with water for hair, wearing a half crown made of aquamarine, with a stylized space scene in the background.

The statistics are not that surprising. I have lost absolutely nothing from deactivating my Twitter account and basically neglecting my Facebook to near oblivion. I’ve noticed an uptick in sign-ups for some of my spiritual groups, but that’s to be expected when some large swathe of platform space becomes dead to Black folks or too…

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…

Twitter leak of email addresses totals at least 200 million – The Washington Post

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Hackers leak email addresses tied to 235 million Twitter accounts by Joseph Menn (The Washington Post)

Researchers say the information was assembled by unknown actors who exploited a previously disclosed flaw in Twitter’s system for verifying account ownership.

Records of 235 million Twitter accounts and the email addresses used to register them have been posted to an online hacking forum, setting the stage for anonymous handles to be linked to real-world identities. Source: Twitter leak of email addresses totals at least 200 million – The Washington Post

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