Curated Commons // Edition 130
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AI, but for emotionally scamming you
This was waiting to happen. Scammers are using AI voice cloning to sound like victims’ relatives needing desperate financial help. - Read here ($)
Apparently, money does buy happiness
New research is disproving past research that money beyond a certain point (per earlier research - $75,000), did not have incremental impact. It does, apparently. All the way up to $500,000. - Read here ($)
Writing, typing, or a combination?
Just came across this interesting short video. Worth thinking through.
Data for convenience, data for exposing
Another day, another data-collecting app being leveraged for exposing precise location. - Read here
Students learn to make deepfake videos. With predictable results.
High school students make a racist deepfake video of their principal threatening students. - Read here
CRISPR is curing sickle cell anemia. Now come the troubling questions
Where science achieves, society and economics fail. Consistently. CRISPR is showing strong results in curing patients of a neglected disease, Sickle Cell Anemia. But now, questions are being raised on equity and access - Read here
Machine learning meets welfare fraud meets lives ruined
More public sector agencies across the world are turning to machine learning algorithms to identify fraud. Thanks to poor training data, these algorithms turn into weapons of discrimination - Read here
Missed car payment, your self-driving car will repossess itself
Ford is asking for a patent that will allow its self-driving cars to repo themselves if the owners misses a payment - Read here
The fall of a climate bank
SVB is popular as a tech startup/VC bank. What isn’t covered much is its role as a key climate bank in the US. Apparently, more than 60% of community solar financing has some links to SVB. - Read here
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