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AI tools could be used to manipulate online audiences into making decisions – ranging from what to buy to who to vote for. […] The paper highlights an emerging new marketplace for “digital signals of intent” – known as the “intention economy” – where AI assistants understand, forecast and manipulate human intentions and sell that information on to companies who can profit from it.
The dead Internet theory is an online conspiracy theory that asserts, due to a coordinated and intentional effort, the Internet now consists mainly of bot activity and automatically generated content manipulated by algorithmic curation to control the population and minimize organic human activity.
Facebook inflicted ‘lifelong trauma’ on Kenyan content moderators […] more than 140 are diagnosed with PTSD […] Kanyanya said the moderators he assessed encountered “extremely graphic content on a daily basis which included videos of gruesome murders, self-harm, suicides, attempted suicides, sexual violence, explicit sexual content, child physical and sexual abuse, horrific violent actions just to name a few.”
Analysis of population aging is typically framed in terms of chronological age. However, chronological age itself is not necessarily deeply informative about the aging process. We show that chronological age is an unreliable proxy for physiological functioning due to appreciable differences in how aging unfolds across people, health domains, and over time.
When to Blame Victims for Negligence
Is it true that … shampoo is a scam, because hair washes itself? […] “Imagine what would happen if you stopped washing your underarms – you’d be likely to develop a build up of sweat and dirt, which would smell awful,” Harvey says. “A proliferation of bacteria and yeasts would occur, as they thrive in oily environments.”
From FANG to BATMMAAN, BRICS to PIGS — How long those acronyms are useful depends on the markets
This photo project pushes the possibility of pubic hair to its limits
