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🚨Scoop from me and Brody Ford: Adobe has touted Firefly as a safe and ethical alternative to competitors like Midjourney… but it also quietly trained Firefly on Midjourney images.

Adobe’s ‘Ethical’ Firefly AI Was Trained on Midjourney Images bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian is trying to show generative AI is ready for enterprise, despite recent embarrassments in the consumer market. Ahead of #GoogleCloudNext in Vegas today, he gave me & Davey Alba an exclusive rundown of how he plans to do it: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

so is it like... safe to get on the subway

YouTube, noted copyright defender.

Great get from Emily Chang and Davey Alba

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YouTube CEO Neal Mohan tells me exclusively — if OpenAI is using YouTube videos to train Sora, that would be a “clear violation” of their policies (with Davey Alba)

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Bloomberg Graphics is hiring for a graphics developer (for NYC, London or Hong Kong)

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On the TikTok ban, the danger of abandoning defense of speech to extremists, & how the liberal tendency to assume a just state 'outside the scope of this paper' leads to confused law/policy that can exacerbate the problems platforms pose.

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We (alongside Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics & Coalition for Independent Technology Research) are running a survey to find out if platforms are following through. If you are a researcher studying technology in the public interest, we want to hear from you! 3/ utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8q…

.Julia Love and Davey Alba's story catalyzed one of the most important tech policy changes in memory – Google will no longer store your location. The data won't exist; so they can't be compelled to turn it over to police and the govt.

Massive impact! Wishing all 🏆's for them!

Excited to share my investigation with Davey Alba won a James Madison Freedom of Information Award from Society of Professional Journalists NorCal! We collected 115 warrants to show how police obtain sweeping data from Google even for nonviolent cases—and for people who had nothing to do with the crime.

Wow! Our investigation on Generative AI Bias won a sigmaawards! Kudos to our dream team Dina Bass Chloe Whiteaker and Jillian Ward. It's an honor for this article to be recognized among the other winning pieces, each an incredible piece of data journalism.
Read it piece below ⤵️

Bloomberg was awarded general excellence in business news. If you like your news to be generally excellent, read our stuff! sabew.org/contestsawards…