Kyle Dent

Technology & Society, Online disinformation and extremism, AI Ethics.

[Kyle Dent @kdent]

My latest in AI Matters https://t.co/fi6H7dVngW

[Kyle Dent @kdent]

A federal judge denies copyright protection for AI-generated art https://t.co/VI18smgGrT

[Kyle Dent @kdent]

Okay, this is creepy.
https://t.co/mZhvQChz81

[Kyle Dent @kdent]

To what extent should social media companies moderate content? The next installment of "Should They or Shouldn't They" is coming to a Supreme Court near you.
https://t.co/iN752kD56y

[Kyle Dent @kdent]

Tech companies and their data collection practices are something to be aware of. Here’s this week’s AI Matters newsletter. If you haven’t subscribed already, check it out and sign up.

Zoom’s missteps show tech’s plans to feed us all to AI https://t.co/YI52goiCfu

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AI Goes to Hollywood https://t.co/OnPuwx5tbp

[Kyle Dent @kdent]

AI Is Power Hungry and Thirsty Too https://t.co/pV4WdWCgm0 AI for climate change is a double-edged sword. The latest in my weekly newsletter, "AI Matters."

[Kyle Vass @WilliamKyleVass]

Journalism friends: Ever receive a poorly redacted document? Ta know, the kind that just has black boxes but still allows you (painstakingly) copy and paste the text from under it?

Copy and paste no more!

https://t.co/V2VRGWhFli

[Kyle Dent @kdent]

I just published My (possibly hokey) story of Postfix https://t.co/8aFI5mMKsK

[Data Visualization Society @DataVizSociety]

From Nightingale: New Q&A with Washington Post columnist @pbump!
Interviewer @kdent goes deep into the #Research, #DataAnalysis, & #Writing process required to produce The Aftermath—a book with 127 (!) charts that explain #BabyBoomer's impact on society.
https://t.co/IG1ccsRRIn

[OpenElections @openelex]

*First-time contributor klaxon*

@kdent made his first contribution, official 2022 general election precinct results from Albany County, NY:

https://t.co/xtjbjRalHb

Who's next?

[Kyle Dent @kdent]

Like most everybody, I'm a big fan of Alberto Cairo. This just reinforces that.

https://t.co/OMpFvMFdvn

[Beautiful Public Data @BeautPublicData]

👋🏻My name is @jonkeegan and I'm a data reporter. I’m going to be posting my favorite visual data sets that our local, state and federal governments collect – ones that are kind of beautiful. Sign up for my free newsletter: https://t.co/2CinLI8MQH 1/3

[Kyle Dent @kdent]

This is good so we can see how far the rot goes in the judiciary.

[Norm Eisen @NormEisen]

BREAKING: US will appeal the legally-unfounded order in the Mar-a-Lago special master case

Partial appeal, which is shrewd. Keeps things moving fast.

More to follow.

[Daphne Keller @daphnehk]

I generally respect @techvsterrorism's work. But its new recommendations for infrastructure providers to block online content are troubling.
https://t.co/U5Fmlo9yA2 1/

[checkstep @checkstep]

Fake news is old news but not our monthly newsletter, which is back again loaded with fresh insights: https://t.co/eCaAhf42K6

Joining us as an expert this month is a Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) subject matter expert, Carolina Christofoletti.

[Kyle Dent @kdent]

Judges misusing linguistic corpora are trying to give their predetermined findings the thin veneer of a "disciplined" decision. https://t.co/vpe602VKsN

[Kyle Dent @kdent]

Misinformation always flows freely after events like the Uvalde, Texas shooting. These three in the immediate aftermath and debunked by @nytimes are largely designed to support a white nationalist, anti-LGBTQ+ agenda. https://t.co/rDkjVdjk9x

[checkstep @checkstep]

If you’re venturing into the #metaverse, be aware that scammers might have got there first. Read this article by @_thesignal describing the dark side of #NFT’s and and how you can protect yourself: https://t.co/3Vp1L2nYYc

#scams #onlinesafety

[checkstep @checkstep]

As we celebrate Checkstep turning two, we revisit how Checkstep came to be.

In the midst of the pandemic, we started developing AI to identify COVID-19 misinformation - in some cases, more dangerous than the virus itself (think bleach!

#anniversary #checkstep