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MEDIA BITS AND BYTES – MAY 17, 2023  
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_ Is tech taking us over a cliff, or giving us wings? _

, Electronic Frontier Foundation

 

* Open Letter to News Media and Policy Makers
* A Digital Pioneer is Worried
* NYT’s Sneak Attack on Randi Weingarten
* Lessons of CNN’s Trump Town Hall
* GOP’s Private Portal to Local News
* Journalists Urge Ban on Spyware 
* Google’s Answer to ChatGPT
* As Platforms Decay, Let’s Put Users First
* 20 Feminist Films by Women, for Everyone
* Klein: Generative AI Won’t Benefit Humanity

OPEN LETTER TO NEWS MEDIA AND POLICY MAKERS
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By Rosemary Ajayi, et al.
Free Press

We, the undersigned, women and non-binary people of the global
majority working on the frontlines of artificial intelligence and
technology policy, invite news media and policymakers to expand their
coverage of the challenges arising from digital technology, tap into
our collective knowledge and expand the pool of sought-after experts
on these issues.

A DIGITAL PIONEER IS WORRIED
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By Malcolm Harris
Wired

Doug Rushkoff is a widely cited theorist of the internet, known for
his prolific and influential writings on culture and economics. But
more recently, he’s turned his attention to something else that this
new digital economy has created: “It made a bunch of billionaires
and a whole lot of really poor, unhappy people.”

NYT’S SNEAK ATTACK ON RANDI WEINGARTEN
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By Charis Hoard and Jasmine Geonzon
Media Matters for America

The New York Times Magazine placed a target on the back of public
education advocate and teachers union leader Randi Weingarten,
gratuitously framing right-wing attacks on education as an organic
result of the political climate, rather than as a manufactured
onslaught spurred by conservative media. 

LESSONS OF CNN’S TRUMP TOWN HALL
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By Jon Allsop
Columbia Journalism Review

Chris Licht, the network’s CEO, told Trump to “have fun” before
he went on stage. Licht summoned Oliver Darcy, CNN’s media
reporter, and scolded him for being overly emotional in criticizing
the platforming of outright lies. The town hall itself came across as
 less about informing voters, than CNN gesturing to a subset of the
political elite about a step change in its values since Licht took
over. 

GOP’S PRIVATE PORTAL TO LOCAL NEWS
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By Karl Bode
Techdirt

How effective rightwing fake local papers are may not be measurable,
but in conjunction with existing propaganda wings of the GOP (AM
radio, Fox, OANN, Newsmax, Daily Caller, popular far right
influencers), it seems naïve to think the impact on voting, polling,
and opinion isn’t meaningful.

JOURNALISTS URGE BAN ON SPYWARE
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By Jessica Corbett
Common Dreams

Six dozen civil society groups, journalists, and experts marked World
Press Freedom Day with a joint call for “all governments to
implement an immediate moratorium on the export, sale, transfer,
servicing, and use of digital surveillance technologies, as well as a
ban on abusive commercial spyware technology and its vendors.”

GOOGLE’S ANSWER TO CHATGPT
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By Benj Edwards
Ars Technica

Google announced wide availability of its ChatGPT-like AI
assistant, Bard, in over 180 countries with no waitlist. It also
announced updates such as support for Japanese and Korean, visual
responses to queries, integration with Google services, and add-ons
that will extend Bard's capabilities.

AS PLATFORMS DECAY, LET’S PUT USERS FIRST
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By Cory Doctorow
Electronic Frontier Foundation

As companies gained a toehold in an environment of lowered barriers,
they turned right around and put up _fresh _barriers of their
own. Regulators and lawmakers thinking about making the internet a
better place for human beings, should make their top priority
restoring power to users.

20 Feminist Films by Women, for Everyone
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By Heidi Atlas
USC Annenberg Media

Despite the long history of exclusion and challenges, there has never
been a better time in history to be a female filmmaker. To continue
this progress and strive for gender equity in filmmaking, we have to
celebrate the perspectives and artistic voices of women and their
strengths and visions to create powerful films in spite of hostile
conditions. 

KLEIN: GENERATIVE AI WON’T BENEFIT HUMANITY
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By Naomi Klein
The Guardian

There is a world in which generative AI, as a powerful predictive
research tool and a performer of tedious tasks, could indeed be
marshalled to benefit humanity, other species and our shared home.
But for that to happen, these technologies would need to be deployed
inside a vastly different economic and social order than our own.

* artificial intelligence
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* Doug Rushkoff
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* new york times
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* Randi Weingarten
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* CNN town hall
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* Donald Trump
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* Republican Party
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* local news
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* spyware
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* Google
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* CHATGPT
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* Bard artificial Intelligence
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* Internet
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* Naomi Klein
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* Local Government Information Services
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