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Ethical Social Media: Oxymoron or Attainable Goal?

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

For this generation, social media has generated a vast set of new ethical challenges, which is unsurprising when you consider the degree of its influence. Social media has been linked to health risks in individuals and political violence in societies.

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Youth mental health startup Somethings launches with a $3.2M raise led by General Catalyst

TechCrunch

As Gilligan describes it, Somethings is a youth-specific wellness platform that connects teenagers with trained mentors between the ages of 19 and 26 for asynchronous help. Mentors must first apply, complete a background check and complete two intensive training modules. The product itself is fairly straightforward.

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Brand journalism 101: Tell a Better Story

Women on Business

If you want your company to succeed at brand journalism (aka corporate media gone social), you better know how to tell a good story. Otherwise, be prepared to take a lot of heat from its critics who would be elated to escort “brand journalism” out of 2013 STAT.

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ChatGPT, Author of The Quixote

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TL;DR LLMs and other GenAI models can reproduce significant chunks of training data. Specific prompts seem to “unlock” training data. Generative AI Has a Plagiarism Problem ChatGPT, for example, doesn’t memorize its training data, per se. This is the basis of The New York Times lawsuit against OpenAI. They are dream machines.

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The Theranos fiasco shows how much startup advisory boards matter

TechCrunch

The epic fall from grace of Elizabeth Holmes holds lessons for everybody from CEOs to investors, commercial partners, the media — social or otherwise — and the Silicon Valley hype machine that is always hungry for a new breakout star and unicorn company. Social media is an emerging but increasingly important source of information.

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Zoom knots itself a legal tangle over use of customer data for training AI models

TechCrunch

The recent terms & conditions controversy sequence goes like this: A clause added to Zoom’s legalese back in March 2023 grabbed attention on Monday after a post on Hacker News claimed it allowed the company to use customer data to train AI models “with no opt out” Cue outrage on social media.

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Companies for Social Good

Women on Business

I have noticed recently an increase in companies that have been started to meet the needs of a community and do Social Good. The Puget Sound Business Journal reported that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the USAID awarded $3.2 Many companies have asked if the consumer really cares whether they concentrate on social good.

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