What I'm Reading - 5/12/24
Hello from Nashville! My friend Beth and I are here to see Eric Church’s new bar - Chief’s - and see him perform. We also went to Garth Brooks’ new bar.
If you find yourself in Nashville I highly recommend coming to Eric’s bar. So much attention to detail and the vibes are amazing. On the tour we were able to take a ton of pictures and this is one of me in the confessional at the side of the bar. Right where I belong. 😂
I wrote all of that before I actually saw the show. I just got out. I’m speechless. This man just managed to kill me twice in two weeks. I have no words.
Before we get to the links, a quick addendum to my Wednesday newsletter. When I titled the newsletter the “meh” election, I should have seen if anyone else had used that already. Turns out Bruce Mehlman and Amy Walters have as well. I also wanted to include this Politico story but couldn’t find it until Daniel Lippman reminded me of how Trump could come back, but the resistance might not. All are worth reading.
Have a great Sunday!
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What I’m Reading
AP News: Japan's Kishida unveils a framework for global regulation of generative AI
POLITICO: Anatomy of a scroll: Inside TikTok’s AI-powered algorithms
New York Mag: The Secret Weakness of TikTok’s All-Powerful Algorithm
Politico: Microsoft goes from bad boy to top cop in the age of AI
Milken Institute: A Conversation with Elon Musk
ABC News: TikTok to automatically label AI-generated content
OpenAI shares first draft of the Model Spec, a new document that specifies how they want their models to behave in the OpenAI API and ChatGPT
OpenAI: Our approach to data and AI
Reuters: Senator Schumer to propose framework for AI legislation in coming weeks
BBC: India election: Modi's party accused of demonising Muslims in video
Foreign Policy: The Chilling of the Fourth Estate After 10 Years of Modi
The Washington Post: Facebook political ad policies often ignored in India election
Politico: Moldova fights to free itself from Russia’s AI-powered disinformation machine
International Idea: Artificial Intelligence for Electoral Management
Axios: Exclusive: Klobuchar AI-elections bills markup set for May 15
Now and Next: The Abundance Institute AI and Elections Update
Euractiv: European media under attack from politicians, Reporters Without Borders sounds the alarm
Rest of World: Meet the alliance helping Google and Meta fight election-related misinformation in India
Covertly Yours: Reading the Past: From Cameroon to Uganda, Unveiling African Elections TTPs
Foreign Policy: India’s Battleground State
South China Morning Post: Don’t expect Google and other tech giants to rush enforcement ban on ‘Glory of Hong Kong’ after court ruling, experts say
The Business of Politics Show Podcast: Stacking Content To Beat Media Fragmentation
WSJ: Corporate America Is Sitting Out the Trump-Biden Rematch
Vanity Fair: “We’re Not Selling Hysteria”: Inside the Cold Calculation and Unyielding Optimism of the Biden Brain Trust
iHeartRadio: Podcasts to keep you up-to-date and informed ahead of the election
AP News: A group of Republicans has united to defend the legitimacy of US elections and those who run them
AP News: Brad Parscale helped Trump win in 2016 using Facebook ads. Now he's back, and an AI evangelist
The Atlantic: Russia and China Are Winning the Propaganda War
AP News: Democratic officials criticize Meta ad policy, saying it amplifies lies about 2020 election
Lost in the Middle: America's Political Orphans: From hanging chads to deep fake videos, American democracy wobbles
Center for American Progress: CAP Authors Letter to Meta Addressing CrowdTangle Shutdown Concerns
Brennan Center for Justice: How Election Officials Can Identify, Prepare for, and Respond to AI Threats
Council on Foreign Relations: Beyond Watermarks: Content Integrity Through Tiered Defense
Washington Post: How Trump's allies amplify his Truth Social messages to the wider world
Center for Campaign Innovation: How Campaign Logos Shape Voters' Opinions About Candidates
Newsweek: The Sabotage That Never Happened—How the Primaries Went Fine Despite AI Warnings | Opinion
Pirate Wires: An Interview With Jack Dorsey
Integrity Institute: Best Practices for Developing & Launching Content Policies for your Platform
Phys Org: The spread of misinformation varies by topic and by country in Europe, study finds
Oversight Board: Decision - Australian Electoral Commission Voting Rules
The Washington Post: Divided Trump campaign weighs joining TikTok, the app he tried to ban
The Washington Post: Twitch streamers become go-to news source for campus protest coverage
Nextgov/FCW: CISA, FBI resuming talks with social media firms over disinformation removal, Senate Intel chair says
The Verge: UK details requirements to protect children from ‘toxic algorithms’
Ofcom: Tech firms must tame toxic algorithms to protect children online
Microsoft On the Issues: Microsoft and OpenAI launch Societal Resilience Fund
Tech Crunch: Microsoft and OpenAI launch $2M fund to counter election deepfakes
CRN: Google Cloud Unveils Threat Intelligence Offering: 5 Things To Know
Future News: I've been down Microsoft's AI rabbit hole to find gems for news
Reuters: OpenAI plans to announce Google search competitor on Monday, sources say
Reddit: Publishing Our Public Content Policy and Introducing a New Subreddit for Researchers
TikTok Newsroom (Latin America): TikTok reinforces its commitment to platform integrity with key initiatives ahead of the upcoming elections in Mexico (Translation)
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