Warning over use in UK of unregulated AI chatbots to create social care plans
- A pilot study by the University of Oxford found some care providers had been using generative AI chatbots to create care plans for people receiving care.
- Dr Caroline Green, an early career research fellow at the Institute for Ethics in AI at Oxford, stated the use of AI in this way presents a potential risk to patient confidentiality.
- She reported that carers might act on faulty or biased information and inadvertently cause harm, and an AI-generated care plan might be substandard.
- For more, please visit The Guardian website.
TikTok calls on US users to oppose latest proposal to ban app
- TikTok is calling on US users to lobby the government after the latest news by US lawmakers to ban the app.
- The proposal stems from concerns that TikTok is providing US user data to the Chinese government.
- TikTok says that the proposed bill is in violation of the First Amendment.
- For more, please visit the Social Media Today website.
Mark Zuckerberg warns against taking screenshot of your Facebook Messenger chats
- Mark Zuckerberg has issued a warning to users of Facebook Messenger who screenshot their chats.
- He reported in a post on Friday that an update to Messenger would notify users if an image of their chat has been captured by another person, as well as an update for end-to-end encrypted Messenger chats so you get a notification if someone screenshots a disappearing message.
- The announcement follows an update to Facebook Messenger which allows people to set their messages to disappear.
- For more, please visit the Yahoo News website.
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Dispersal orders ‘not fair’ on young people who bear the brunt of them
- Dispersal orders, which particularly impact young people, have been used about 2,000 times a year since they were introduced.
- Research by organisations such as the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies found younger people were far more likely to be subjected to these orders.
- Former Children’s Commissioner Anne Longfield said the increasing use was a “potentially dangerous and damaging approach for young people and the community as a whole”.
- For more, please visit the BBC News website.
Crown Prosecution Service lawyers trivialise teen sexual abuse, report says
- According to an official examination into how the CPS deals with serious sexual crimes, it found that in England and Wales, it trivialised teen sexual abuse.
- The report also states the CPS is “obsessed” about the credibility of rape victims and used victim-blaming language.
- It warns of a reliance on “new myths” about modern sexual practices, and says mental health is still acting as a barrier to victims receiving justice.
- For more, please visit the Yahoo News website.
