BlenderBot, Meta’s AI chatbot, wants me to check out its synagogue By Philissa Cramer, JTA Aug 16, 2022 Immediately after launching on Friday, BlenderBot 3 began drawing criticism for embracing antisemitism and election lies. But in my experience, Meta’s newly retooled artificial intelligence chat had other issues — including an extreme exuberance about going to synagogue. Over the course of our hour-long conversation Tuesday morning, during which I tried to bait it into talking about… Read More
Tech ADL: Twitter removes only 5% of reported antisemitic posts Twitter has an antisemitism problem, and it’s not doing nearly enough to combat it, according to an investigation by the Anti-Defamation League.… By Dan Pine Aug 1, 2022
Politics WhatsApp founder Jan Koum donates record $2 million to AIPAC WhatsApp founder Jan Koum has become the largest individual donor to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s campaign committee, spending $2… By Asaf Elia-Shalev, JTA Jul 22, 2022
Talking With ... Q&A: Cindy Cohn fights for digital privacy on the internet frontier Cindy Cohn won her first legal case for the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation in 1993, three years after the nonprofit was founded to… By Lillian Ilsley-Greene Jul 8, 2022
Tech State bill would compel social media to disclose hate speech policies A first-of-its-kind California bill would require social media companies to disclose their content moderation policies to the public in an effort to stem… By Lillian Ilsley-Greene Jul 1, 2022
Tech Google stockholders vote against BDS proposal on Nimbus Project Alphabet stockholders voted not to approve a stockholder proposal against Google’s work on Israel’s Nimbus Project, after Alphabet’s… By Michael Starr, Jerusalem Post Jun 20, 2022
Philanthropy Reclusive WhatsApp founder is a quiet Jewish megadonor The fighting in Ukraine has been called “a WhatsApp war” amid widespread reliance on messaging apps by journalists, soldiers and ordinary civilians, and… By Asaf Elia-Shalev, JTA Jun 15, 2022
California Doug Emhoff speaks to Holocaust survivor — and his AI twin — in L.A. When Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff sat down for a Zoom conversation with Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter on Wednesday, he opened by saying, “I feel… By Jacob Gurvis, JTA Jun 9, 2022
Tech Shabbat Zoom sex stream raises questions about streaming services It was a double mitzvah, the New York Post concluded: A couple tuned in online to Shabbat services at their Minnesota synagogue, then stripped and started… By Jackie Hajdenberg, JTA Jun 3, 2022