[nonostantement #270] - doctor chatgpt / influencers & unions / scraping facebook vs privacy

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Welcome to nonostantement: a weekly newsletter with twisted, crisp, and upbeat stuff found all over the Internet.

Hello from Barcelona! My name is Joele and I work online dealing with strategies for brands and companies. This is the weekly e-mail in which I collect all the most interesting things I’ve found on the internet during the week.

A playlist for you, today 💔: Ryuichi Sakamoto's contemporary and jazz playlist for his restaurant

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Margaret Kilgallen - Alex Crusher, Daniel Lutheran, Dashawn Jordan, CJ Collins and Leo Romero

#PEOPLE

• Photos of the Japanese Subculture Where People Wear Giant Cyclops Masks
  Introducing tanganmen, one of the more underground movements in Japanese style.

• If It’s Advertised to You Online, You Probably Shouldn’t Buy It. Here’s Why.
  Surveillance-based advertising is not only destroying democracy; it also pitches us lousy, overpriced goods.

#TECH

• [Video] - AI Art: How artists are using and confronting machine learning | HOW TO SEE LIKE A MACHINE
  "We spoke with three artists—Kate Crawford, Trevor Paglen, and Refik Anadol—who engage with the ways that AI and machine learning algorithms are demanding new approaches to artmaking.

• Google contractors say they don't have enough time to verify correct answers from the company's AI chatbot and end up guessing
  Some contractors say they're not given enough time to rate the most accurate chatbot responses.

• Can ChatGPT Be a Doctor? Bot Passes Medical Exam, Diagnoses Conditions
  ChatGPT's latest software upgrade, called GPT-4, is "better than many doctors I've observed" at clinical diagnosis, one physician said.

• Introducing S-GPT, A Shortcut to Connect OpenAI's ChatGPT with Native Features of Apple's Operating Systems

#SOCIALMEDIA

• TikTok Is Changing What It Means to Be ‘Old’
  As users play with Teenage Look filters and offer ways to appear younger, ageism on the app runs rampant.

• TikTok and Instagram advice influencers are here to correct you
  Everything is a "don’t" in the new era of influencing.

• The influencers getting rich by teaching you how to get rich
  Inside the lucrative, distinctly nonacademic world of online classes.

• Tweets, LinkedIn, YouTube, Reddit and the fast moving rumor
  Can your company survive and thrive? Part I of a two-part series.

• The Influencer Industry Is Having an Existential Crisis
  People who make their living by sharing content on giant social-media platforms have tried to strike, organize, and even unionize, but they don’t have much to show for it.

#THEDARKSIDE

• A.I., Brain Scans and Cameras: The Spread of Police Surveillance Tech - The New York Times
  In the Middle East, artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies have become part of everyday policing.

• Special Report: Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars
  Between 2019 and 2022, groups of Tesla employees privately shared via an internal messaging system sometimes highly invasive videos and images recorded by customers’ car cameras.

• Clearview AI Scraped 30 Billion Images From Facebook to Share With Police
  Clearview AI scraped 30 billion photos from Facebook to build its facial recognition database.

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