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episode 78: A.I.’s Data Wall + a Surprise Privacy Bill + What Happened to the TikTok Ban?
This week, the companies building artificial intelligence are facing a limit to what training data is publicly available on the internet. Will that stop them from building God? Then, a new bipartisan national privacy law proposal just dropped. We ask what’s in it. And finally, ByteDance is building new apps instead of fighting Congress’s TikTok ban.
Today’s Guests:
Trevor Hughes, president and C.E.O. of the International Association of Privacy Professionals
Additional Reading:
How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I.
For Data-Guzzling A.I. Companies, the Internet Is Too Small
Lawmakers unveil sprawling plan to expand online privacy protections
TikTok Turns to Nuns, Veterans and Ranchers in Marketing Blitz
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