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AI Backlash, Surveillance Fears, and the Future of Tech

Amazon Ring's Super Bowl ad sparked controversy, while Wikipedia editors debated blacklisting Archive.today, and a campaign urged users to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions, highlighting the complex and evolving landscape of technology. These developments, along with advancements in AI fraud detection and the launch of a new AI-focused newsletter, reflect the rapid pace of change in the tech world.

Ring's Super Bowl ad, showcasing a new AI-powered "Search Party" feature designed to find lost dogs by scanning neighborhood camera footage, drew criticism over privacy concerns. According to The Verge, critics worry the feature could be used for broader surveillance, potentially searching for people.

Meanwhile, Wikipedia editors considered blacklisting Archive.today, an archive site, after it was used to direct a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against a blogger. Ars Technica reported that editors were presented with three options: remove or hide all Archive.today links and add the site to the spam blacklist, deprecate Archive.today, or maintain the status quo. Option A, which would involve blacklisting the site, would represent a significant change.

In the realm of AI, fraud detection is advancing rapidly. VentureBeat highlighted how sophisticated AI models, like Mastercard's Decision Intelligence Pro (DI Pro), can analyze individual transactions in milliseconds to pinpoint suspicious activity. Mastercard processes approximately 160 billion transactions annually, with peak periods experiencing surges of 70,000 transactions per second.

Separately, a campaign called "QuitGPT" urged users to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions, citing concerns about OpenAI's political contributions and the use of its technology by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). MIT Technology Review reported that the campaign highlighted a contribution by OpenAI president Greg Brockman to President Donald Trump's super PAC MAGA Inc. and the use of a ChatGPT-4 powered résumé screening tool by ICE.

Finally, MIT Technology Review launched a new weekly newsletter, "Making AI Work," to explore the practical applications of AI across various sectors. The newsletter will feature case studies and provide insights into how generative AI is being used and deployed.

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