American cops are using #AI to draft #police reports, and the #ACLU isn't happy

source: theregister.com/2024/12/12/acl…

"Police reports play a crucial role in our #justice #system," ACLU speech, privacy and #technology senior #policy analyst and #report author Jay Stanley wrote. "Concerns include the unreliability and biased nature of AI, evidentiary and memory issues when officers resort to this technology, and issues around #transparency.

#problem #news #future #dystopia #robocop #ethics #crime #court #prison #usa

American cops are using AI to draft police reports, and the ACLU isn't happy

Do we really need to explain why this is a problem?

^{Brandon Vigliarolo (The Register)}

In 1988, #India issued an order forbidding the import of Salman #Rushdie’s novel. A #Delhi #Court has overturned the order, not because of free speech, but because no one could find it.

source: nytimes.com/2024/11/08/world/a…

Democracy at its best. If you can't present your invoices to the tax office, then you can expect heavy penalties but why should we keep our records, we are the government after all so trust us!

#Democracy #justice #fail #problem #government #freedom #freespeech #censorship #politics #omg #wtf #authorities #book #news

Elon #Musk asks #court to block #OpenAI conversion from #nonprofit to for-profit

Source: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

Musk's #motion makes it clear he is worried that a for-profit OpenAI would spell trouble for his own company, #xAI.

#economy #ai #technology #news #future #power #Software #Problem

Elon Musk asks court to block OpenAI conversion from nonprofit to for-profit

Musk says for-profit OpenAI harms public interest—and his own company, xAI.

^{Jon Brodkin (Ars Technica)}

French #court blocks popular #porn site… #subdomain

Source: techcrunch.com/2024/11/28/fren…

As a result, the court ordered blocking of “fr.xhamster.com,” including the “fr.” prefix. This means internet service providers have complied with the order and blocked xHamster at the DNS level but only with the “fr.” prefix. So #xHamster remains accessible in France — until regulator, Arcom, finds a way to close this embarrassing loophole.

#news #internet #knowlege #Knowhow #justice #technology #dns #block #web #www #uri #access #provider #fr #France #fail #omg #wtf

French court blocks popular porn site... subdomain | TechCrunch

When the Paris Court of Appeal recently blocked four porn sites in France for not having a proper age verification system, the two online child protection

^{Romain Dillet (TechCrunch)}

Copying is not theft said #OpenAI 😐

See: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

Do we really want to criminalize a large part of the population while tech companies do the same? In the end, is the only difference that #PirateBay was not a multimillion corporation?

#sony #court #piracy #internet #economy #news #usa #copy #Problem #society #crime

Supreme Court wants US input on whether ISPs should be liable for users’ piracy

SCOTUS asks US government for its view on $1 billion Sony v. Cox case.

^{Jon Brodkin (Ars Technica)}

You press something wrong and suddenly it's all gone 😱

Source: wired.com/story/new-york-times…

#ai #technology #news #openai #Copyright #nyt #court #law #fail #problem

New York Times Says OpenAI Erased Potential Lawsuit Evidence

As part of an ongoing copyright lawsuit, The New York Times says it spent 150 hours sifting through OpenAI’s training data looking for potential evidence—only for OpenAI to delete all of its work.

^{Kate Knibbs (WIRED)}