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Kevin Bankston

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Kevin Bankston

@KevinBankston

Writing about AI and media at Converger.KevinBankston.com. Senior Advisor on AI Governance @CenDemTech. Teaching AI & copyright law @GeorgetownLaw. My opinions.

Washington, DC

converger.kevinbankston.com

Joined April 2008

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Kevin Bankston
@KevinBankston
Jun 11
Confession time: I helped murder Punky Duck. Accidentally. Which I guess makes it duckslaughter? A couple weeks ago I went to the AI on the Lot conference in LA, and unexpectedly found myself at the center of Hollywood’s AI controversy of the week... (link in replies)
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Kevin Bankston
@KevinBankston
Jul 10, 2024
Just pulled up my tax return in @Google Docs--and unbidden, Gemini summarized it. So...Gemini is automatically ingesting even the private docs I open in Google Docs? WTF, guys. I didn't ask for this. Now I have to go find new settings I was never told about to turn this crap off.
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Kevin Bankston
@KevinBankston
Nov 18, 2018
Ford's CEO just said on NPR that the future of profitability for the company is all the data from its 100 million vehicles (and the people in them) they'll be able to monetize. Capitalism & surveillance capitalism are becoming increasingly indistinguishable (and frightening).
Kevin Bankston
@KevinBankston
Apr 13, 2015
Words to live by.
Kevin Bankston
@KevinBankston
Jul 10, 2024
Replying to @KevinBankston and @Google
Gemini is either hallucinating or this setting is so buried that I can't find it in either my @Google account or Drive settings or Gemini Privacy Hub after searching for 15 minutes. (Pardon my french in the screenshot but felt like expressing anger to the machine...)
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Kevin Bankston
@KevinBankston
Jul 10, 2024
Replying to @KevinBankston
It's also rather maddening to know that throwing more Gemini stuff in users' faces that they didn't ask for is one of the main reasons Google is completely blowing its climate goals as discussed just this morn on @NPR.
Alex Hanna (اليكس حنٌا)
@alexhanna
Jul 10, 2024
Thanks to @darakerr for talking with me about the high climate cost of generative AI, Google's reneging on its climate goals, and the real existential crisis facing us on NPR Morning Edition today. npr.org/2024/07/10/nx-…
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Kevin Bankston
@KevinBankston
Jul 10, 2024
Replying to @KevinBankston
...what if I still don't want it looking at my docs unprompted? I didn't *ask* it to summarize my taxes, it just did. It should be up to me whether/which private docs prompt the model.
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Kevin Bankston
@KevinBankston
Jul 10, 2024
Replying to @KevinBankston
Particularly with this sort of incident in its track record, Google should be giving us a lot more direct control over what if any of our content gets inputted into its models.
Google was accidentally leaking its Bard AI chats into public search results
From fastcompany.com
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Kevin Bankston
@KevinBankston
Apr 10, 2018
A dangerous thing to say on multiple levels
Milton Mueller
@miltonmueller
Apr 10, 2018
Zuckerberg says platforms have responsibility for content now that technology can scan and classify whether it is "bad". Yikes #Zuckerbowl
Kevin Bankston
@KevinBankston
Jan 29, 2017
Half hour in and Lafayette Square is almost full. #NoBanNoWall #WhiteHouse
Kevin Bankston
@KevinBankston
Jul 10, 2024
Replying to @KevinBankston
So I asked Gemini to point me to the settings. This is what it said. Tried both, neither works. Gemini is *not* in Apps and services on my dashboard (1st option), and I didn't have a profile pic in the upper right of the Gemini page (2nd). Total fail, @Google. Little help?
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Kevin Bankston
@KevinBankston
Apr 20, 2024
Garbage. Can’t wait to see how the next administration abuses this unwarranted expansion of a surveillance power we’ve already seen repeatedly abused.
Martin Matishak
@martinmatishak
Apr 20, 2024
President Joe Biden has signed the FISA Section 702 renewal bill into law.
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Kevin Bankston
@KevinBankston
Jul 10, 2024
Replying to @KevinBankston and @Google
Notably, the only Gemini privacy I could find to manage was re: retention of my chats. support.google.com/gemini/answer/…
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Kevin Bankston
@KevinBankston
Jul 10, 2024
Replying to @KevinBankston and @MissMWilliams
I found the setting that’s supposed to keep Gemini out of my docs…and it was already turned off! Yet Gemini is absolutely giving me document summaries. A setting that doesn’t work is even worse than no setting.
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