A very good read from a respected source!
CONSUMER REPORTS. Who Shares Your Information with Facebook?
Consumer Reports and non-profit The Markup REPORTS that for the average single Facebook user, 2,230 to 7,000 companies, will deliver over the person’s private information to Facebook. 186,892 organizations passed data about 709 volunteers over three years to Meta.
Learn more:
- Study: Thousands of businesses just love handing over your info to Facebook – The Register
- Zuckerberg wants to build artificial general intelligence with 350K Nvidia H100 GPUs – The Register
- Why Facebook Shut Down Its AI (bots learned to talk to each other in secret language)
- Facebook owner Meta fined €1.2bn for mishandling user information. Penalty from Ireland’s privacy regulator is a record for breach of EU data protection regulation – The Guardian
- Meta and IBM launch ‘AI Alliance’ to promote open-source AI development. Group does not include Microsoft, OpenAI or Google, setting up potential clash over regulation and responsible practice – The Guardian
- ‘Very scary’: Mark Zuckerberg’s pledge to build advanced AI alarms experts. Meta CEO accused of being ‘irresponsible’ by considering making tools on par with human intelligence open source – The Guardian
- Marc Benioff, the chief executive of the business IT company Salesforce, said there was a risk AI could go horribly wrong unless it was used responsibly. “Look at what’s happened to social media in the last 10 years. It has been ashitshow. We don’t want that in the AI industry. “It could go really wrong. We must make sure people don’t get hurt. We don’t want an AI Hiroshima moment. We must make sure we get our head around this now.” – The Guardian