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Wednesday was International Women's Day!

👉 The Gender Pay Gap Bot, @PayGapApp, called out companies on International Women's Day for not mentioning their gender pay gap while celebrating women employees. For example, Wizz Air was highlighted for having a 60.5% pay gap, 13.7 percentage points wider than the previous year.  

👉 Creative agency ACE introduced MissJourney, an alternative text-to-image generator that only produces images of women, in honor of International Women's Day.   From the Department of Generative AI

👉 GrammarlyGO, a new generative AI tool from Grammarly, can write and rewrite content in a user's writing style. The tool will be available to all users via a beta program starting in April 2023  

👉 DuckDuckGo has launched DuckAssist, an AI assistant currently limited to their browsing apps and browser extensions, using Wikipedia as its primary source  

👉 NewsGPT is a new AI-generated news channel that delivers daily news without human reporters. While some seek clarification, others are intrigued by unbiased news  

👉 Scammers use AI voice-cloning to impersonate family members in distress and fool victims into losing thousands of dollars, sometimes spoofing specific numbers to add credibility.  AI is stealing your job.

👉 A new paper analyzes which fields are most exposed to AI language modeling, with telemarketers, language & literature teachers, historians, and law enforcement teachers among those most impacted.

👉 Marc Andreessen believes that AI will not cause unemployment since it will only automate specific tasks, leaving many jobs that require human skills. However, he warns about the high cost of education and the need to address this issue for the economy to thrive  Government Tech

👉 Access Now's #KeepItOn report found that 35 countries enforced 187 internet shutdowns in 2022, most triggered by mass protests or conflict. India came top of the list with 84 shutdowns.  

👉 A US welfare fraud detection algorithm discriminates based on ethnicity and gender, according to an investigation by Wired and Lighthouse Reports. The algorithm processes arbitrary data inputs and can flag individuals for investigation, leading to life-changing consequences.  

👉 Worldcoin, backed by Sam Altman, uses iris scans to create a global ID and financial service for users. The goal is to provide a trustworthy digital identity using AI.

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