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Facial recognition error prompts police to arrest Asian man for burglary 100 miles away

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Exclusive: Alvi Choudhury claiming damages against Thames Valley police after biased technology confused him with man looking ‘10 years younger’Police arrested a man for a burglary in a city he had never visited after face scanning software deployed across the UK confused him with another person of south Asian heritage.Alvi Choudhury, 26, a software engineer, […]

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Digital blackface flourishes under Trump and AI: ‘The state is bending reality’

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From TikTok deepfakes to smears put out by the White House, fake videos modeled on Black archetypes are running rampant – putting Black users at riskLate last year, as a US government shutdown cut off the Snap benefits that low-income families rely on for groceries, videos on social media cast the fallout in frantic scenes.

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Trump’s Obama and Bad Bunny posts crystallize his political philosophy | Sidney Blumenthal

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Maga is a recapitulation of the dark side of American history that cohered into nativist nationalism a century agoDonald Trump’s posting of a video depicting former president Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes was the most overtly racist act of a president since Woodrow Wilson segregated the federal civil service –

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‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront

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Multiple game creators describe ineffective moderation on the platform, resulting in unchecked hatred in forums and targeted campaigns of negative ‘anti-woke’ reviewsFor years, the gaming storefront Steam has let abuse and bigotry pass through its moderation, according to players and developers who use it. The platform is now host to reams of content that violate

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Elon Musk’s xAI faces second lawsuit over toxic pollutants from datacenter

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NAACP alleges artificial intelligence firm is violating Clean Air Act and polluting Black communities in MississippiElon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI is facing a second lawsuit alleging it is illegally emitting toxic pollutants from its enormous datacenters, which house its supercomputers and run the chatbot Grok.The new pending suit alleges xAI is violating the Clean

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Elon Musk posted about race almost every day in January

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Many social media posts by Tesla CEO on his platform are indiscernible from those of white supremacists, say expertsElon Musk’s longtime fixation on a white racial majority is intensifying. The richest man in the world posted about how the white race was under threat, made allusions to race science or promoted anti-immigrant conspiracy content on

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‘It’s AI blackface’: social media account hailed as the Aboriginal Steve Irwin is an AI character created in New Zealand

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More than 180,000 people follow the Bush Legend’s accounts across Meta platforms, but its Aboriginal host is a work of digital fictionGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastWith a mop of dark curls and brown eyes, Jarren stands in the thick of the Australian outback, red dirt at his feet, a

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‘Urgent clarity’ sought over racial bias in UK police facial recognition technology

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Testing showing racial bias against black and Asian people prompts watchdog to ask Home Office for explanationThe UK’s data protection watchdog has asked the Home Office for “urgent clarity” over racial bias in police facial recognition technology before considering its next steps.The Home Office has admitted that the technology was “more likely to incorrectly include

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