The Sunday Brew #21
In this brew - USA & Canada starting a war against Internet, Elon Musk along with other industry leaders call for AI training pause, Deepfakes and AI generated Images and a new currency by BRICS.
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TOP STORY
War on the Internet Freedom
On the pretext of concerns on data security, it seems United States of America is gearing up to start a war on the internet freedom. Earliner in the month, RESTRICT Act (S.686) was introduced to senate which carries such broad languages that it can practically be used to censor the whole of the internent in the country and restric usage widely. Something as silly as accessing a restricted or banned application using VPN can attract a penalty of ‘not more than $1,000,000, or if a natural person, may be imprisoned for not more than 20 years, or both.’ Read on Vice »»»
Canada is not far behind, where a bill called C-11 is being put which proposes that streaming services and social media in Canada must serve the Canadian residents with at least 35% content which is Canadian. Here
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A Call for Pause in AI training
Early this week, 1000s of technology & business leaders including Elon Musk called for a pause in AI training in an open letter sighting risks associated with building a too good AI too fast.
tweeted this:And now the US congress has also weighed in on the suggestion. Read On»»»
Synthetic Information Age - Trust Nothing
Internet is a terrific source of fast and wide information. But can you trust them? Over last couple of weeks we saw arrested Trump and dripped out Pope Francis. Of course, neither were true. With AI tools to generate images and create deepfakes, there is no telling what you are looking at on internet is true or not. Midjourney, an image generation tool has suspended its free trial as fakes took internet with a storm. Read On»»»
A New Currency in making by BRICS
Amidts the news of a lot of countries moving away from United States Dollar to settel their bills, Alexander Babakov, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma of Russia said on 30th March that BRICS nations - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - are puting together a proposal for a ‘new currency’. Read On »»»
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