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Microsoft Leftovers

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 20, 2023

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Need a decent dining spot in Ottawa? Microsoft suggested a food bank

=> ↺ Need a decent dining spot in Ottawa? Microsoft suggested a food bank

Microsoft declined to elaborate further on what type of "algorithmic techniques" it employed to produce the piece and others like it.

Unsurprisingly, folks at the Ottawa Food Bank weren't too pleased.

Microsoft says listing the Ottawa Food Bank as a tourist destination wasn’t the result of ‘unsupervised AI’

=> ↺ Microsoft says listing the Ottawa Food Bank as a tourist destination wasn’t the result of ‘unsupervised AI’

“Needless to say, this is not the type of messaging or ‘story’ we would ever put out or wish to be included in,” Samantha Koziara, communications manager at the Ottawa Food Bank, said in a statement to The Verge on Thursday. “The ‘empty stomach’ line is clearly insensitive and didn’t pass by a (human) editor. To my knowledge, we haven’t seen something like this before — but as AI gets more and more popular, I don’t doubt an increased number inaccurate / inappropriate references will be made in listicles such as this. This simply highlights the importance of researchers, writers, and editors… of the human variety.”

FYI: There's another BlackCat ransomware variant on the prowl

=> ↺ FYI: There's another BlackCat ransomware variant on the prowl

The BlackCat malware works on Windows and Linux, and is rented out to criminals, who break into targets and run the data-stealing malware, making it a ransomware-as-a-service operation. Under this business model, the affiliates pay to use the malware developed by operators in their attacks, and then the affiliates earn a cut of the proceeds if the victims pay the ransoms.

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