AI is getting better at performing mass categorization of photos and text. A developer can scrape a bunch of photos from, say, Facebook -- either directly, likely violating the terms of service, or through offering an app by which people ...
I participate in a regular poll by the Christian Science Monitor on Internet policy topics. This week's question was about the recent data breaches at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management:
As you can see, most people said yes. I count myself ...
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… language to the checkout counter prompt to donate that says, “CVS has committed at least $10M, and you can make it even more!”
… a previous gift. The complaint’s allegations are consistent with either arrangement — because they are functionally the same, so long as customers’ gifts above $10M also go to the ADA! Anyway, this seems easily fixed next time by adding …
Maybe these campaigns usually raise at least $10M, which CVS was more or less counting on to make its own guarantee - if it didn’t think that was likely, it wouldn’t have made the promise. Providing insurance against a failed campaign feels different than cynically reimbursing …
A well-pled complaint. If it turns out that CVS said it would do its donation campaign, and the ADA said, “Great, but if you’re getting all that good publicity you need to backstop it by guaranteeing at least $10M from it,” would I stay outraged? I’m not sure I would. twitter.com/clancynewyork/…
@BioTurboNick Agreed. I worry that they’ll get good enough to give answers we didn’t already know ourselves and can’t well verify — while remaining bad enough to mess up newyorker.com/tech/annals-of…
