💌 Newsletter #015 - "Watermarks" in Chatbot Output; Meta settles; "It's Just a Tool?"

✨ In This Edition ✨ 📟 Short-Form Content: Random word choice watermarks in chatbot output; Getting "opted in" to Google scanning your stuff; Meta settles; Books are destroyed to feed the chatbots; EU mandates driver-facing cameras. 🌞 Good News!: More transparency in online shopping; Mastodon 5.0; AI-free, digitally sovereign document editing; Your old phone as a NAS. 📯 The Post-Script: Reading There's no such thing as Just a Tool by Iris Meredith. Original image by Natalia Y. on Unsplash, glitched and edited. 📟 Short-Form ContentChatbots ("AI") OpenAI's Head of Ethics has left the company, after less than a year in the role. "There currently is no replacement lined up, suggesting shifting priorities at the company." That's probably a good sign of what's to come. Right? Google now scans your emails and attachments. Apparently, if you use Gmail, you were "opted in" automatically. Here's some tips on how to opt out. Reminder that there are email services available that aren't google.…

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