SONG: Bang, You’re Misled
SONG: “Bang, You’re Misled” [Download] ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on Defense One, 2 Oct 2020, “Can AI Detect Disinformation? A New Special Operations Program May […]
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Artificial intelligence is being programmed to spot disinformation – by the military.
Defense One reports on a new U.S. Air Force and Special Operations Command (SOCOM) program, using artificial intelligence to counter “information space” pollution – or, […]
Google, Facebook should be scared. Targeted ads shown to be less profitable than the old way.
Wired has a story that seems slightly obscure at first, but really strikes at the cornerstone of today’s internet. The main Dutch public broadcaster, Nederlandse […]
Turning the virus into a videogame.
Ireland’s RTÉ Brainstorm reveals how researchers are turning ordinary personal computers into a virus-killing supercomputer and recruiting gamers to solve puzzles that figure out COVID-19 […]
This T-shirt conceals you from digital surveillance.
Wired reveals a garment that doesn’t exactly make its wearer invisible, but makes it harder for an AI system – like those used in CCTV […]
Science Art: StyleGAN2 Example 2, Jan 2020
Click to embiggen Wikimedia Commons’ description of this average-looking guy simply reads: The man in this image does not exist. This face was constructed by […]
SONG: In the Ring
SONG: “In the Ring” [Download] . ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Scientific American, 4 May 2020, “A Shiny Snack Bag’s Reflections Can Reconstruct the Room around It,” […]
How your snack bags can give you away.
Scientific American is doing a deep, multi-story dive on privacy issues, and this one’s a doozy. Researchers have used an irregularly shaped shiny object, like […]
Stanford’s butt-reading toilet knows how healthy you are.
CNET (among others) has brought us news at the confluence of two contemporary concerns: Are we carrying germs we don’t know about? and … Just […]
COVID-19 Resource List
Rather than the usual excerpt of recent research, I thought I’d start collecting some decent sources of info on the ongoing pandemic. * Vetted and […]
An artist created a fake traffic jam with a wagonload of phones.
The Guardian looks at the way Google Maps is changing the way we look at maps, and the way one artist is hacking Google Maps […]
How forensic linguistics reveals who wrote what. (Or, why JK Rowling and Alexander Hamilton can’t stay anonymous.)
National Geographic goes (or went – this article is from 2013) into the science of forensic linguists, using computers to analyze things like word choice […]
How a social network can be gerrymandered – and how that can affect our decision-making (and real-life voting).
Nature has a fascinating piece of research (with great graphics, so please click through) on how exactly public opinions can be molded by a few […]
An algorithm to sniff out fake news, linguistically.
The Conversation looks at a way that Fatemeh Torabi Asr, a computational linguistics researcher at Simon Fraser University, has devised to use computers to instantaneously […]
Disinformation is not false information, and it’s not manufactured. And it doesn’t want you to believe anything.
Nature has an essay up by a disinformation researcher, who wants us to know that disinformation is usually partially true, and mostly spread by people […]