Davey Alba / is on Nostr

Bloomberg tech reporter / Google, Big Tech, misinfo / daveyalba.com / ask for my Signal / I take tips in Tagalog and yes I will go to lunch at Jollibee with you

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2023-09-28 22:06:15

My first (!) Businessweek cover: Investigators are increasingly using warrants to obtain location and search data from Google, even for nonviolent cases—and can end up looking through the user data of people who had nothing to do with a crime.
with my great reporting partner, Julia Love
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-09-28/google-user-data-is-police-s-top-shortcut-for-solving-crimes?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTY5NTkwODQwMCwiZXhwIjoxNjk2NTEzMjAwLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTMU9HSFFUMVVNMFgwMSIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJFNzAxNENGQzIzNTI0MzU0QTVENUY2QkREMDAxOEU3NiJ9.hQdndsctzUxy26-09-BmMVCSacJkYBdNNw1Awmb48ns
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2023-07-12 16:37:57

NEW: Internal documents shared with me show the complex instructions that Google contractors are asked to complete in minutes in order to train Google’s generative AI products, like Bard.
AI experts say the workers have an "impossible job."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-12/google-s-ai-chatbot-is-trained-by-humans-who-say-they-re-overworked-underpaid-and-frustrated?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTY4OTE3OTg0NywiZXhwIjoxNjg5Nzg0NjQ3LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJSWE9INERUMVVNMFcwMSIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJFNzAxNENGQzIzNTI0MzU0QTVENUY2QkREMDAxOEU3NiJ9.5RTQiHMWXIU0dIuxg8gtLL_VqsG6Slle6uj3F20aMR8
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2023-07-12 16:37:57