The Washington, DC-based Center for the Study of Organized Hate (CSOH) said it tracked posts that explicitly dehumanised, excluded, and incited violence against Muslims from 1 January to 5 March. On the day the war began, the volume of such posts surged from just under 2,000 per day to more than 6,000, the report said. "Reposts dramatically amplify the visibility of harmful content, allowing it to spread far beyond the original accounts that generated it." With reposts included, "the total mention volume of Islamophobic content rises to 279,417, representing an 11-fold amplification of the harmful original posts". The content examined by CSOH encompassed a wide swath that included everything from personal hate-fuelled opinions to calls for lawmakers to institute strict anti-Muslim policy, including a "Muslim Exclusion Act" and the deportation of all Muslims.

An investigation into the AI bots that appeared on Reddit after they partnered with OpenAI. Key points: - The bots post a lot of links to products and services which appear to be adverts but are not marked as such. - Many of these links are for Sam Altman's World ID. - Reddit added terms on AI advertising to their business page around the time the bots appeared. - The bots also make up stories about dead mothers, depression, drug addiction, eating disorders, medical conditions and mental health issues.

https://archive.ph/gx01C

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/44059967 > for those not familiar with [Mark Pilgrim](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Pilgrim), he is/was a prolific author, blogger, and hacker who abruptly disappeared from the internet in 2011. > > cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/968527 > > > [HN comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47259177)

"Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future" is a new report from Forbrukerrådet. The report itself is a light read: it's in English, and while it is 100 pages long [PDF], it is in fact enjoyable and even amusing – we laughed quite a few times when reading it. For one thing, it contains a surprising number of puns and the occasional starred-out swearword, such as "Do androids dream of electric s***." A stodgy bureaucratic report this is not. https://youtu.be/T4Upf_B9RLQ

Anthropic, the wildly successful AI company that has cast itself as the most safety-conscious of the top research labs, is dropping the central pledge of its flagship safety policy, company officials tell TIME. In 2023, Anthropic committed to never train an AI system unless it could guarantee in advance that the company’s safety measures were adequate. For years, its leaders touted that promise—the central pillar of their Responsible Scaling Policy (RSP)—as evidence that they are a responsible company that would withstand market incentives to rush to develop a potentially dangerous technology. But in recent months the company decided to radically overhaul the RSP. That decision included scrapping the promise to not release AI models if Anthropic can’t guarantee proper risk mitigations in advance.

An Amazon Web Services data center in the United Arab Emirates suffered a multi-hour outage on Sunday after unidentified “objects” struck the facility and triggered a fire. The incident occurred around 4:30 a.m. local time and affected the availability zone mec1-az2 in the ME-CENTRAL-1 region. The fire department cut power to combat the flames, resulting in significant disruptions to cloud services. Given the simultaneous Iranian retaliatory attacks on the Gulf states, suspicion arises that the impacting objects may have been missiles or drones. Amazon has not confirmed anything on its part.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/43923170 > We're happy to announce a long-term partnership with Motorola. We're collaborating on future devices meeting our privacy and security standards with official GrapheneOS support. > > [https://motorolanews.com/motorola-three-new-b2b-solutions-at-mwc-2026/](https://motorolanews.com/motorola-three-new-b2b-solutions-at-mwc-2026/)

The core thesis of this paper is that the AI community needs to stop treating autonomous agents as just another text generation problem and start building comprehensive infrastructure to support closed loop learning. The authors argue that achieving reliable agentic behavior requires a full stack ecosystem that unifies data synthesis with sandboxed execution and specialized reinforcement learning. To prove this point they introduce the Agentic Learning Ecosystem which consists of an RL framework called ROLL alongside a sandbox manager named ROCK and an agent interface known as iFlow CLI. They believe that isolating models in static training environments is a dead end for solving complex real world workflows. The team developed an open source model named ROME using a tightly integrated training pipeline with reproducible execution environments which allowed a relatively small 30 billion parameter model to rival or beat massive proprietary models exceeding 100 billion parameters on difficult software engineering benchmarks. A big part of their argument rests on the idea that credit assignment in reinforcement learning needs to change. They propose a novel algorithm called Interaction Perceptive Agentic Policy Optimization which shifts the reward focus from individual text tokens to broader semantic interaction chunks. This chunk level optimization stabilizes the training process over long horizons and prevents the policy collapse often seen in complex tool use scenarios. We're increasingly seeing a shift of priorities away from raw data scale and focus on the systematic infrastructure as the actual bedrock of next generation models.

Shocking news, indeed. I had no idea they had a Discord.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/7691747 > cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/29115 > > >  > > > > > > Big Tech firms are coming under greater scrutiny for the proliferation of child sexual abuse material generated by artificial intelligence-powered chatbots on their social media platforms. > > > > Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) [announced](https://www.dataprotection.ie/en/news-media/press-releases/data-protection-commission-opens-investigation-x-xiuc) on Tuesday that it was invoking the European Union's data privacy regulations to open an investigation into [Grok](https://www.commondreams.org/news/elon-musk-grok-investigation), the AI chatbot featured on Elon Musk's X platform, after it was used to generate nonconsensual deepfake images, including sexualized images of children. > > > > In announcing the investigation, DPC Deputy Commissioner Graham Doyle said that the commission has been in contact with X for weeks after reports first emerged of Grok being used to generate child sexual abuse material (CSAM). > > > > Doyle said DPC has since decided to launch "a large-scale inquiry which will examine [X's] compliance with some of their fundamental obligations" under European privacy laws. > > > > Spanish President Pedro Sánchez [said](https://x.com/sanchezcastejon/status/2023654632866660688) on Tuesday that his government would ask Spain's Public Prosecution Service to "investigate the crimes that X, Meta, and TikTok may be committing through the creation and dissemination of child pornography by means of their AI." > > > > "These platforms are attacking the mental health, dignity, and rights of our sons and daughters," Sánchez emphasized. "The state cannot allow it. The impunity of the giants must end." > > > > The probes announced by Ireland and Spain mark just the latest actions by European governments against US-based tech giants. Earlier in February, law enforcement authorities in France raided the office of X in Paris, which the Paris prosecutor’s office said was part of an investigation aimed at "ensuring that the X platform complies with French laws, insofar as it operates on national territory." > > > > The UK government's Information Commissioner's Office has also announced an investigation into X that the agency said encompasses "their processing of personal data in relation to the Grok artificial intelligence system and its potential to produce harmful sexualized image and video content." > > > > --- > > > > **From [Common Dreams](https://www.commondreams.org/feeds/news.rss) via [This RSS Feed](https://www.commondreams.org/feeds/news.rss).**

Reddit has been fined more than £14 million (€16 million) by the UK’s information watchdog, accusing the social media giant of failing to protect children and leaving them vulnerable to "inappropriate and harmful content". Following an investigation, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) found that the American company neglected to implement robust age-verification tools. Reddit told Euronews Next that it intends to appeal the decision. Instead, Reddit relied heavily on "self-declaration"—allowing users to simply state their age without further proof—a method the watchdog deems insufficient for protecting children.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/40009551 > https://www.404media.co/man-charged-for-wiping-phone-before-cbp-could-search-it/ > > A man in Atlanta has been arrested and charged for allegedly deleting data from a Google Pixel phone before a member of a secretive Customs and Border Protection (CBP) unit was able to search it, according to court records and social media posts reviewed by 404 Media. The man, Samuel Tunick, is described as a local Atlanta activist in Instagram and other posts discussing the case. > The exact circumstances around the search—such as why CBP wanted to search the phone in the first place—are not known. But it is uncommon to see someone charged specifically for wiping a phone, a feature that is easily accessible in some privacy and security-focused devices. > 💡 > Do you know anything else about this case? I would love to hear from you. Using a non-work device, you can message me securely on Signal at joseph.404 or send me an email at [email protected]. > The indictment says on January 24, Tunick “did knowingly destroy, damage, waste, dispose of, and otherwise take any action to delete the digital contents of a Google Pixel cellular phone, for the purpose of preventing and impairing the Government’s lawful authority to take said property into its custody and control.” The indictment itself was filed in mid-November. > Tunick was arrested earlier this month, according to a post on a crowd-funding site and court records. “Samuel Tunick, an Atlanta-based activist, Oberlin graduate, and beloved musician, was arrested by the DHS and FBI yesterday around 6pm EST. Tunick's friends describe him as an approachable, empathetic person who is always finding ways to improve the lives of the people around him,” the site says. Various activists have since shared news of Tunick’s arrest on social media. > > The indictment says the phone search was supposed to be performed by a supervisory officer from a CBP Tactical Terrorism Response Team. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) wrote in 2023 these are “highly secretive units deployed at U.S. ports of entry, which target, detain, search, and interrogate innocent travelers.” > “These units, which may target travelers on the basis of officer ‘instincts.’ raise the risk that CBP is engaging in unlawful profiling or interfering with the First Amendment-protected activity of travelers,” the ACLU added. The Intercept previously covered the case of a sculptor and installation artist who was detained at San Francisco International Airport and had his phone searched. The report said Gach did not know why, even years later. > Court records show authorities have since released Tunick, and that he is restricted from leaving the Northern District of Georgia as the case continues. > The prosecutor listed on the docket did not respond to a request for comment. The docket did not list a lawyer representing Tunick.