Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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Losing Facebook Is Bad, but Losing WhatsApp Is Worse
What happens when you lose the encrypted messaging app everyone uses?
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Amazon Should Invent With Care
Amazon's spirit of invention is refreshing, but technologists must think through the consequences.
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Why Facebook Should Release the Facebook Files
The company's least-bad option might also do a lot of good
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What Social Media Needs to Learn from Traditional Media
The industry needs to develop professional norms—just as journalism once did
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Apple and Facebook Are Coming for Your Face Next
The face computer is coming—brace yourself
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What Is Facebook?
It's a question that's bedeviled the company's own executives for years
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Here's Why Tech Companies Are Suddenly Focused on Child Safety
Tech colossi are responding to shifting political winds and trying to preempt new, impending regulations
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No Perfect Solution in Apple's Privacy vs. Child Safety Debate
How do opponents to Apple's child safety features calculate risk, and more importantly, what alternatives do they propose?
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Protecting the Global Internet from Technology Cold Wars
Considering the perceived dangers of the global information flow.
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Elon Musk's Tesla Bot Is a Joke
Don't overthink it: It's just a distraction and an empty promise
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'I Predict That the Metaverse Won't Happen'
Silicon Valley has been anticipating virtual reality for more than three decades, but people mostly like actual reality
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Technology Is Making It Harder to Be a Moral Person
Are digital distractions such as social media and smartphones making us less ethical?
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What I Learned Surrendering My Life to Algorithms
What happens when someone leaves daily choices about music, food, wardrobe, and more up to online algorithms for a week
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Taxing Digital Advertising Could Help Break Up Big Tech
A novel approach to rein in the largest technology companies, encourage competition and innovation, and help democracy
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Reimplementing Software Interfaces Is Fair Use
A multifactored rationale for denying Oracle's claim against Google.
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Should Alexa Read Our Moods?
Companies should be barred from analyzing what people say and how they sound to recommend products or personalize advertising messages.
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Software Professionals, Malpractice Law, and Codes of Ethics
In pursuit of professional status for computing professionals.
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Understanding Law and the Rule of Law: A Plea to Augment CS Curricula
Why law matters for computer scientists and other folk.
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The Push for Stricter Rules for Internet Platforms
Considering the origins, interpretations, and possible changes to Communications Decency Act §230 amid an evolving online environment.
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