OpenAI and its discontents: Why countries need laws to combat AI exploitationThe New York Times accuses Microsoft-owned ChatGPT of using copyrighted material without permission and attributing false information. The ...
18 Jan, 2024, 11.14 PM IST
Handle AI's toxic creativityThere are many instances of technology misuse, or technology gone wrong. Wrong call Microsoft's early chatbot, Tay, was shut down after it ...
15 Jan, 2024, 11.21 PM IST
Bollywood star or deepfake? AI floods social media in AsiaWhile digitally manipulated images and videos of women were once easy to spot, usually lurking in the dark corners of the internet, the exp...
14 Dec, 2023, 09.06 AM IST
YouTube defeats racial bias lawsuit by Black, Hispanic content creatorsThe proposed class action on behalf of non-white YouTube users was originally filed in June 2020, less than one month after a Minneapolis p...
18 Aug, 2023, 09.27 AM IST
ETPWLA 2023: Sunil Mathur, MD and CEO, Siemens Limited, India, on empowering women’s leadership and driving diversity beyond tickboxes“Unless we positively discriminate, we won't be able to make a difference,” says Sunil Mathur, the Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executi...
14 Jun, 2023, 10.31 AM IST
Is there life after influencing? Here's what creators thinkFor more than a decade, social media has carried with it the implicit promise that with some combination of luck and incessant posting, a u...
13 Apr, 2023, 02.23 PM IST
Elon Musk's plans for Twitter could make its misinformation problems worseMusk has also indicated his intention to combat twitter bots, or automated accounts that post rapidly and repeatedly in the guise of people...
26 Apr, 2022, 12.38 PM IST
Elon Musk's bid spotlights Twitter's unique role in public discourse - and what changes might be in storeAs a researcher of social media platforms, I find that Musk's potential ownership of Twitter and his stated reasons for buying the company ...
16 Apr, 2022, 12.07 PM IST
View: Bharat Sarkar or Twitter Sarkar?‘I don’t know.’ These three words are often anathema to the specialist as well as to the generalist when confronted with decision-making wi...
26 May, 2021, 11.40 PM IST
Anatomy of a conspiracy: With COVID-19, China took leading roleA nine-month investigation of state-sponsored disinformation conducted in collaboration with the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Resear...
15 Feb, 2021, 11.17 AM IST
ET CEO Roundtable: Unity of effort is the vaccine India needs to reignite growthPanelists agreed that the pandemic has led to the acceleration of digital adoption in India, changing the way business is done. But they sa...
10 Feb, 2021, 10.06 AM IST
Indian MNCs openly allying with the LGBT causeCompanies in India are openly allying with the LGBT cause & encouraging staff to speak up about their identity.
26 Jun, 2019, 07.18 AM IST
A new generation of filmmakers are reworking the roles of LGBTQ community in pop cultureHindi cinema avoided the subject of homosexuality and transgenderism for years, even as it portrayed the third gender only for comic relief.
24 Mar, 2019, 10.09 AM IST