AI outperforms doctors in Harvard trial of emergency triage diagnoses | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian

"It showed the AIs’ advantage was particularly pronounced in triage circumstances requiring rapid decisions with minimal information. The diagnosis accuracy of the AI – OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model – rose to 82% when more detail was available, compared with the 70-79% accuracy achieved by the expert humans, though this difference was not statistically significant."

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‘An element of exploitation’: the world of TikTok child skincare influencers | TikTok | The Guardian

"An element of exploitation’: the world of TikTok child skincare influencers
Experts say regulation of child influencers sits in a legal grey area as children promote products on social media"

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Is the UK falling out of love with social media? | Social media | The Guardian

"Peer pressure aside, the 32-year-old is not alone. Britain’s communications watchdog reported last week that UK adults were becoming less active on social media platforms. Ofcom said just under half of adult social media users (49%) now post, share or comment, compared with 61% in 2024.

So is the UK turning off social media?"

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Parents told to ‘take responsibility’ after two days of social media-fuelled London disorder | UK news | The Guardian

"The antisocial behaviour took place after link-ups arranged on social media sites including TikTok and Snapchat. In a statement, the Met urged social media companies to “play their part by taking responsibility for content on their platforms that promotes or incites disorder”."

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LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy - Ars Technica

"The findings have the potential to upend pseudonymity, an imperfect but often sufficient privacy measure used by many people to post queries and participate in sometimes sensitive public discussions while making it hard for others to positively identify the speakers. The ability to cheaply and quickly identify the people behind such obscured accounts opens them up to doxxing, stalking, and the assembly of detailed marketing profiles that track where speakers live, what they do for a living, and other personal information. This pseudonymity measure no longer holds.

“Our findings have significant implications for online privacy,” the researchers wrote. “The average online user has long operated under an implicit threat model where they have assumed pseudonymity provides adequate protection because targeted deanonymization would require extensive effort. LLMs invalidate this assumption.”"

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How AI is Reshaping Our Realities - by CIP

"This perceptual shift has consequences for how AI shapes beliefs. Our data shows that AI is a more potent driver of belief certainty than traditional social media platforms. While 44.5 percent of users report that AI makes them more certain about their important beliefs, only 38.5 percent say the same of social media. More striking still, AI interactions are nearly three times less likely to cause users to doubt their beliefs (4.8 percent) compared to social media interactions (13.9 percent)."

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King's study finds AI chose nuclear signalling in 95% of simulated crises | King's College London

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AI allows hackers to identify anonymous social media accounts, study finds | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian

"AI has made it vastly easier for malicious hackers to identify anonymous social media accounts, a new study has warned.

In most test scenarios, large language models (LLMs) – the technology behind platforms such as ChatGPT – successfully matched anonymous online users with their actual identities on other platforms, based on the information they posted."

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Grandmother jailed 108 days after facial recognition got it wrong - Boing Boing

"Grandmother jailed 108 days after facial recognition got it wrong"

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AI autocomplete doesn’t just change how you write. It changes how you think | Scientific American

"AI autocomplete doesn’t just change how you write. It changes how you think

AI-powered writing tools are increasingly integrated into our e-mails and phones. Now a new study finds biased AI suggestions can sway users’ beliefs"

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