The 2024 culture wars have begun in earnest, coalescing around the unexpected and extraordinarily messy topic of academic integrity. Last week, Harvard's president, Claudine Gay, resigned following accusations that she had plagiarized parts of her dissertation. Though Gay, Harvard's first Black president, admitted to copying text without attribution, she identified the accusations as part of an ideological campaign by right-wing political activists to "unravel public faith in pillars of American society." The allegations against Gay wouldn't be the last. The same week, Business Insider published a pair of articles reporting that Neri Oxman, a former professor at MIT, plagiarized some of her academic work.

Twitter is scrapping its image cropping algorithm after confirming the feedback raised by several users on the platform that the tool is biased against black people and women. The "saliency algorithm," introduced by Twitter in 2018, was developed to enable users to crop images and improve consistency in the size of photos in their timelines, so that they can see more Tweets at a glance, it noted in a blog post. Trained using human eye-tracking data, the company said the machine learning (ML) algorithm works by assigning "saliency scores" to different points in an image and determining where a person might want to see first within a picture in order to crop an image to an easily-viewable size. However, the recent analysis, conducted by researchers including Twitter's ML Ethics, Transparency, and Accountability (META) team, found that when the algorithm crops images it has an 8 per cent bias in favor of women, and 4 per cent in favour of white people. The results of the analysis also revealed a 7 per cent difference from demographic parity in favour of white women compared to black women, and a 2 per cent bias in favour of white individuals among men.

The ratio is disturbed from being 1:1 to 4:5 for genuine to fake news. It is seen that the median length is lower for fake articles but it also has loads of outliers. It is seen that they start from 0 which is concerning. It actually starts from 1 when I used .describe() to see the numbers. So I took a look at these texts and found that they are blank.

Celebrities spread Covid conspiracies and video games were shared as ‘real’ war footage.

China has issued new rules banning online video and audio providers from using artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual reality technologies to produce "fake news." The regulation published Friday by China's cyberspace authority said that both providers and users of online video news and audio services are "not allowed" to use new technologies such as deep learning and virtual reality to create, distribute and broadcast "fake news." "Fake news" has been generalised to mean anything from a mistake to a parody or a deliberate misinterpretation of facts. The rules come into effect on January 1, 2020. Failure to follow them could be considered a criminal offence, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said, without offering details on punishments.

China has issued new rules banning online video and audio providers from using artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual reality technologies to produce "fake news". The regulation published on Friday by China's cyberspace authority said both providers and users of online video news and audio services were "not allowed" to use new technologies such as deep learning and virtual reality to create, distribute and broadcast "fake news". "Fake news" has been generalised to mean anything from a mistake to a parody or a deliberate misinterpretation of facts. The rules come into effect on January 1, 2020. Failure to follow them could be considered a criminal offence, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said, without offering details on punishments.

By Dattaraj Jagdish Rao "After releasing his first movie, PK, in 2013, Shah Rukh's career has changed in a big way now. Most of his films have been successful. Recently, he had a big success in 2016 release, Khan by The Karan Johar. Shah Rukh had also signed an exclusive deal with Harshvardhan Bhardwaj Films. It was also announced a week ago that Shah Rukh Khan will make a guest appearance on a Bollywood reality show on Sunday."

Detecting fake news is getting more difficult as more false information pours onto the internet ... [ ] every day, and from very influential sources. New papers from MIT explore how current methods are failing, and bring new weapons to the fight against fake news. Now is the time to make facts great again. "Fake news," the 2017 Collins word of the year, poses a serious threat to the values of honesty, truth, and accountability--values that purveyors of falsified information don't seem to hold too closely. Apart from the most obvious dangers of spreading false information (erosion of trust, political or national hostility, widespread uncertainty) the prevalence of AI systems on social media mean that unverified claims and slanderous falsehoods are picked up and distributed at eye-watering speeds.

How are you leveraging AI technology for customer finance offerings? We are in the process of implementing AI in our organization and have recently taken a few steps to commence the journey. In the first stage, we are trying to master the usage of data that has been accumulated over the last 10-11 years of our existence. We are trying to develop hypothesis/algorithms on which we can do machine learning to solve specific problem statement based on historical data. We have attempted small PoCs in the space of fraud management where we would like to use the available data and see the past trends of detected frauds to stop a repeat incidence.

All those topics have made headlines this year--in Education Week and elsewhere--and all of them are splashed over the agenda of the country's largest education technology conference, which kicks off in Philadelphia this weekend. The International Society for Technology in Education will draw thousands of teachers, school administrators, and researchers from across the world, not to mention the dozens of ed-tech companies hungry for a piece of the K-12 market. Ben Herold, an ISTE veteran, will be moderating a panel on meeting the ed tech needs of extraordinary students. And I'll be at ISTE for the first time! Follow me on Twitter at @AlysonRKlein.