TIL: https://flotte-berlin.de/ what a nice, startup-free, alternative to the now needlessly folding Avocargo. 😍 Via @esther

ChatGPT gets treated like technological magic, but that ignores the humans behind the curtain that make it function.

OpenAI paid Sama to hire Kenyan workers at $1.32 to $2 an hour to review “child sexual abuse, bestiality, murder, suicide, torture, self harm, and incest” content. Their work made the tool less toxic, but left them mentally scarred. The company ended the contract when they found out TIME was digging into their practices.

https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/

#tech #chatgpt #ai

After a year-long inquiry, the EU Ombudsman recommends that the European Commission should monitor the progress of every single Big Tech case that the Irish Data Protection Commission is responsible for. https://www.iccl.ie/2022/eu-ombudsmans-decision/

RT @LHreports@twitter.com

NEW INVESTIGATION finds that low income neighbourhoods throughout the Netherlands have been singled out and run through secretive algorithms to detect welfare fraud. Netherlands hasn't shaken its addiction to "digital dystopia" experiments https://www.lighthousereports.nl/investigation/the-algorithm-addiction/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/LHreports/status/1605122202621411330

✨ Job alert ✨

3-year postdoc position, part of my ERC project Problem Definition in the Digital Democracy (PRODIGI)

> Digital tech & politics
> Causal inference and/or computational social science
> PhD completed or close to completion
> Starting Jan 2023 (or later)

Happy to answer any questions!

https://fabriziogilardi.org/resources/misc/2022-10-03-Postdoc-PRODIGI-Job-Ad.pdf (pdf)

@politicalscience #polisci #poliscijobs

@stokel on the authoritarian dark side of mandatory SIM card registration, inc concerns over the latest state - the Philippines - to propose #SimReg https://www.codastory.com

I've been arguing against #SimReg for close to two decades. Along with 4 mobile telco colleagues we wrote a (non-public) report against #SimReg which persuaded the UK govt not to introduce a #SimReg law .

Also see https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/sim-card-registration-laws/ for updated SimReg stats as at Feb 22