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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NewMusicShow
Erik Klinga & Erik Klinga:
🎵 Opaque Stars
#ErikKlinga

I created a Persona/System Prompt that I use with a local LLM that I have affectionately named "TOSBot". It analyzes Terms of Service and Privacy Policies of software and web sites.
Too often, it returns these results, especially for AI-powered products and there is no recourse.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
#ai #tos

An interview with 10 Kenyan AI annotators shows Chinese companies hire data labelers via opaque middleman networks and WhatsApp groups to avoid accountability (Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/kenya-china-ai-workers/

The hidden Kenyan workers training China’s AI models
An unemployment crisis has created fertile ground for companies to step in with opaque systems built on WhatsApp groups, middlemen, and bargain-basement wages.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MechanicalBreakdown
SIIE:
🎵 Opaque Couché
#SIIE
https://siie.bandcamp.com/track/opaque-couch
https://open.spotify.com/track/32Gal6GsrvXGEbw3oIqeZ9

Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have turned on Attorney General Pam Bondi
and have reportedly begun drafting articles of impeachment
following the heavily opaque release of the Epstein files

Pam Bondi faces calls to be jailed as bipartisan articles of impeachment are drafted - NewsBreak
Several lawmakers accused Bondi of flouting the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which mandated the government to provide full disclosure of the Justice Dep

The very excellent “what happened last week” newsletter by @… focuses on “the A in AI stands for African” this week, namely on how Chinese AI companies are turning Kenya with its chronic unemployment of 67 percent into a hot spot of cheap AI labor.
More and more Kenyan students and recent graduates are hired to label thousands of videos a day through opaq…

The hidden Kenyan workers training China’s AI models
An unemployment crisis has created fertile ground for companies to step in with opaque systems built on WhatsApp groups, middlemen, and bargain-basement wages.

While Govt workers have been laid off by the thousands, pals of Kristi Noem gettin' paid off... The opaque Delaware corp PR firm of her pals that put her on a pony to rant against "illegal immigrants" during the govt shutdown just made $220m tax dollars...
https://www.propubli…

A look at CollectiveMetrics.org, a new nonprofit founded by two ex-Meta ad executives that aims to bring more transparency to digital advertising to fight scams (Craig Silverman/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/scam-ads-are-flooding-so…

Scam Ads Are Flooding Social Media. These Former Meta Staffers Have a Plan
Rob Leathern and Rob Goldman, who both worked at Meta, are launching a new nonprofit that aims to bring transparency to an increasingly opaque, scam-filled social media ecosystem.