digital exploitation
Deepfake porn using any person on Instagram
When we can no longer control where our face appears, what happens to our perception of identity?
digital ethics
Why that open letter urging an AI development pause is problematic
Applied ethics isn't a checklist. It's about putting in the time and effort to understand risks to wellbeing with the express intent of avoiding, mitigating and monitoring harm. It makes sense then to assume that the open call to pause AI development is a good thing.
digital exploitation
Ignoring harm to others when you yourself benefit
How harmful does something need to be for people to stop using it? How much do you yourself need to benefit to choose to ignore the harm done to others? When I left Facebook some years ago I emphasised how it was the (very late) acknowledgement of harm done to
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Messages in WhatsApp are stopping immigrants
Information stored on phones is increasingly used in court cases and to determine the trustworthiness and honesty of people seeking to enter [https://www.businessinsider.com/can-us-border-agents-search-your-phone-at-the-airport-2017-2] another country. So what happens when the source of the information is someone else entirely, and you had no intention of saving it