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Keep getting lost? You may have grown up on the net

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As a child in Chicago, Stephanie de Silva found that the city helped her get where she was going. Streets had directional names such as “west” or “north,” and they often met at right angles arranged. If all else fails, Lake Michigan can locate it. But when De Silva, 23, moved to London, where she now studies cognitive science, she suddenly couldn’t move to a restaurant two blocks from home without a smartphone map. The streets were often crooked. Sometimes they seemed to lead nowhere. “I don’t think the underlying…

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Lost in Transcription AI: Adult words creep into kids’ YouTube videos

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How can “beach” turn to “buster” or “buster” to “bastard” or “combo” to “condom”? It happens when Google Speech-To-Text and Amazon Transcribe, both automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems, mistakenly give age-inappropriate subtitles on YouTube Kids’ videos. This is the main finding of a study titled “From Beach to Bitch: The Unintended and Unsafe Copying of Children’s Content on YouTube” which covered 7,013 videos from 24 YouTube channels. Ten percent of those videos contained at least a “severely forbidden word” for children, says Ashik Khuda Bukhsh, an assistant professor in the…

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Elon Musk is seriously considering building a new social media platform

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The billionaire said in a tweet on Saturday that Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Inc., is seriously considering building a new social media platform. Musk was responding to a Twitter user’s question about whether he would consider creating a social media platform consisting of an open source algorithm and one that prioritizes free speech, and where publicity is minimal. Musk, a prolific user of Twitter himself, has been critical of the social media platform and its policies recently. He said the company was undermining democracy by failing to adhere to…

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