How Machine Learning Projects Get 'Intentionally Obscured'

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Remember Google's Art Selfies? Amy Webb explains how enormous machine learning projects are being "intentionally obscured."

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FILE PHOTO: O.J. Simpson, wearing the blood stained gloves found by Los Angeles Police and entered into evidence in Simpson's murder trial, displays his hands to the jury at the request of prosecutor Christopher Darden in this file photograph from June 15, 1995 as his attorney Johnnie Cochran, Jr. (R.) looks on.
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“White Bronco.” “Lance Ito.” “If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit.” “Kato Caelin.” “Johnny Cochran.” Each of these names and moments associated with the 1995 murder trial of ex-football star OJ Simpson, who died of cancer on Wednesday at 76, is instantly recognizable to anyone who was even remotely conscious in the mid-1990s.

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Lithuanian Defence Minister Laurynas Kasciunas, German Ambassador to Lithuania, Cornelius Zimmermann, Chief of the Lithuanian Armed Forces Valdemaras Rupsys and Chief of the German Army Lieutenant-General Alfons Mais attend a press conference in Vilnius, Lithuania, April 8, 2024.
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4,800: Germany has begun deploying some 4,800 troops to Lithuania, marking the first time since WWII that German forces will be based outside the country on a long-term basis.

Iranians burn an Israeli flag during a rally marking Quds Day and the funeral of members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps who were killed in a suspected Israeli airstrike on the Iranian embassy complex in the Syrian capital Damascus, in Tehran, Iran, April 5, 2024.
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There are rising concerns over how Iran will retaliate to a recent Israeli strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus, Syria, that killed several top Iranian commanders and enraged Tehran.

An organizer carries a clipboard with petitions for a ballot initiative to enshrine abortion into the Arizona state constitution during a small rally led by Women's March Tucson after Arizona's Supreme Court revived a law dating to 1864 that bans abortion in virtually all instances, in Tucson, Arizona, U.S. April 9, 2024.
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On Wednesday, Arizona Republicans blocked attempts by Democrats to repeal an 1864 total abortion ban that the state’s supreme court reinstated on Tuesday.