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Microsoft whistleblower sounds alarm on AI image-generator to US officials and company’s board
7Mar By adminNo Comments
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Microsoft whistleblower sounds alarm on AI image-generator to US officials and company’s board

[ad_1] A Microsoft engineer is sounding alarms about offensive and harmful imagery he says is too easily made by the company's artificial intelligence image-generator tool, sending letters on Wednesday to U.S. regulators and the tech giant's board of directors urging them to take action.Shane Jones told The Associated Press that he considers himself a whistleblower and that he also met last month with U.S. Senate staffers to share his concerns. The Federal Trade Commission confirmed it received his letter Wednesday but declined further comment. Microsoft said it is committed to addressing employee concerns about company policies and that it appreciates Jones' "effort in studying and testing our latest technology to further enhance its safety.” It said it had recommended he use the compa...
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Whistleblower allegation: Harvard muzzled disinfo team after $500 million Zuckerberg donation
5Dec By adminNo Comments
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Whistleblower allegation: Harvard muzzled disinfo team after $500 million Zuckerberg donation

[ad_1] A prominent disinformation scholar who left Harvard University in August has accused the school of muzzling her speech and stifling — then dismantling — her research team as it launched a deep dive in late 2021 into a trove of Facebook files she considers the most important documents in internet history.The actions impacting Joan Donovan's work coincided with a $500 million donation to Harvard by a foundation run by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan. In a whistleblower disclosure made public Monday, Donovan seeks investigations into “inappropriate influence" from Harvard's general counsel, the Massachusetts attorney general's office and the U.S. Department of Education. The CEO of Whisteblower Aid, a legal nonprofit supporting Donovan, called the allege...
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Ex-intel officer says US hiding info on alien craft
28Jul By adminNo Comments
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Ex-intel officer says US hiding info on alien craft

[ad_1] We are not alone -- and American authorities are covering up the evidence, a former US intelligence officer told a congressional committee on Wednesday.David Grusch testified that he "absolutely" believes the government is in possession of unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAPs -- which has replaced the term UFO in official parlance -- as well as remains of their non-human operators. "I was informed, in the course of my official duties, of a multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse-engineering program," Grusch said. "I made the decision, based on the data I collected, to report this information to my superiors and multiple inspectors general, and in effect becoming a whistleblower," he said.Pressed for details in the course of the hearing, Grusch repeatedly said he could n...
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Twitter Whistleblower To Meet With US Senate Panel On September 13: Report
25Aug By adminNo Comments
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Twitter Whistleblower To Meet With US Senate Panel On September 13: Report

[ad_1] Twitter has labeled the complaint a "false narrative."Washington: The US Senate Judiciary committee will hold a hearing on Sept. 13 with Twitter Inc's former security chief Peiter "Mudge" Zatko to discuss allegations from his whistleblower complaint that the social media company misled regulators.Zatko, who accused Twitter of falsely claiming it had a solid security plan and making misleading statements about its defenses against hackers and spam accounts, has already discussed his complaint with staffs of the chair and ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and the staff of the Senate Intelligence Committee, according to a spokesperson for Zatko.In an 84-page complaint, Zatko, a famed hacker widely known as "Mudge," made numerou...
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