TNW 327: Will TikTok Be Banned... This Time? - Copilot Designer Warning, New M3 MacBook Airs
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 7 March 2024
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
U.S. lawmakers are once again pushing ByteDance to divest TikTok or face a ban within the country. The Center for Countering Digital Hate published a report on AI images generated being used to create election disinformation. A Microsoft AI engineer warns the FTC about safety concerns with Microsoft's Copilot Designer. And some of the new features & products Apple has announced over the past few weeks!
- Abrar Al-Heeti joins Mikah this week! She talks about U.S. lawmakers making another push to get ByteDance to divest TikTok or face a ban within the country. Could this push get TikTok banned within the U.S., or at least divest the company?
- Mikah covers the report published by the Center for Countering Digital Hate, where the organization tested popular AI image tools and how they help contribute to disinformation during election periods.
- Emma Roth of The Verge stops by to share her coverage of the safety concerns brought up by a Microsoft engineer over Microsoft's Copilot Designer of its safety issues and flaws.
- And finally, Dan Moren of SixColors.com talks about Apple's announcement of M3 13" & 15" MacBook Airs and the iOS 17.4 update.
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Abrar Al-Heeti
Guests: Emma Roth and Dan Moren
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News Weekly, it's the first Thursday of the month. That means |
| 0:03.4 | Abr al-Hitti of C-Net joins us. A Brar's story of the week is all about US |
| 0:08.0 | lawmakers trying once again to ban TikTock or convince them to divest. |
| 0:14.0 | Then my story of the week is all about the C. C. D.H. |
| 0:18.0 | That's the Center for Countering Digital Hates Image Factory research. |
| 0:24.0 | They looked at top AI photo generation tools to see how many of them, despite their policies |
| 0:30.5 | against it, still produce images that could mislead voters about |
| 0:36.0 | both voting and the election as a whole. Afterwards the Virges Emma Roth |
| 0:42.1 | stops by to talk about a Microsoft AI engineer who has warned |
| 0:46.7 | the FTC about the issues regarding co-pilot designer. Yes, there are some safety concerns before we round out |
| 0:55.2 | the show with six colors Dan Moran who stops by to tell us about Apple's new 13-inch |
| 1:01.2 | and 15-inch MacBook, as well as some updates to iOS |
| 1:07.0 | with 17.4. |
| 1:09.0 | Coming up on Tech News Weekly. |
| 1:11.0 | Stay tuned. |
| 1:12.0 | Podcasts you love. |
| 1:15.0 | From people you trust. |
| 1:17.0 | This is Twit. |
| 1:20.0 | This is Tech News Weekly episode 327 recorded Thursday March 7th, 2024. |
| 1:30.0 | Will Tik-Tock be banned this time? |
| 1:33.0 | This episode of Tech News Weekly is brought to you by |
| 1:37.0 | Melissa, the data quality experts. |
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