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Back to EpisodesThe Silence of the LLMs
Season 1
Episode 99
Published 1 week ago
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In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:
- The Darkest Web (BBC)
- Federal agencies skirt Trump’s Anthropic ban to test its advanced AI model (Politico)
- Anthropic Opposes the Extreme AI Liability Bill That OpenAI Backed (Wired)
- Europe should regulate Big Tech instead of banning kids from social media, Estonia says (Politico EU)
- Statement by President von der Leyen with Executive Vice-President Virkkunen on the digital age verification app (European Commission)
- Apple threatened to remove Grok from the App Store over sexualized deepfakes, letter says (NBC News)
- A fake Ledger app on the Apple App Store drained $9.5 million in crypto (Coindesk)
- India’s Decentralized System of Internet Censorship (Tech Policy Press)
- As Social Media Tears Society Apart, a New Crop of Scary Movies Focuses on the Horror of Content Moderation (Variety)
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