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Beauty Tech Exposed: Why AI "Scores" Are Meaningless

I ran my face through 5 popular AI beauty analyzers. The results? Wildly inconsistent scores based more on lighting than reality.

Key findings:
🔍 Same photo = scores from 62-95/100
💡 Lighting changes mattered more than skin
🌍 Most trained on limited, Eurocentric data

A dermatologist confirmed: these apps measure arbitrary metrics, not health. Worse

Full investigation
🔗 tinyurl.com/48m5sjr3

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"The EU is developing a Code of Practice to govern general purpose AI, as part of the implementation of the AI Act. But Big Tech has heavily influenced the process to successfully weaken the Code."

"From the second to the third draft of the Code, obligations changed to encouragements. Prohibitions became suggestions. Best efforts, reasonable efforts."

@corporateeurope: corporateeurope.org/en/2025/04

Corporate Europe ObservatoryCoded for privileged access | Corporate Europe ObservatoryThe EU is developing a Code of Practice to govern general purpose AI, as part of the implementation of the AI Act. But Big Tech has heavily influenced the process to successfully weaken the Code. 
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"Professional conflicting interest - The AI office relied on a consortium of external consultants to help draft the Code of Practice. However, the investigation shows that the consultancies involved have commercial ties to the #BigTech companies. For instance, the main contractor – French consultancy Wavestone – has a contract to roll out Microsoft’s generative AI tool 365 Copilot in French businesses."

corporateeurope.org/en/2025/04 @ai @eu

Corporate Europe ObservatoryEU under heavy Big Tech pressure to weaken rules on advanced AI | Corporate Europe ObservatoryAs the European Commission is set to publish the Code of Practice on General Purpose AI next month, a new study shows the Code is under intense pressure from aggressive Big Tech lobbying. The upshot is weaker protection against potential structural biases and social harms caused by AI.

We readily entertain philosophical discussions about AI consciousness while often overlooking the demonstrable suffering of animals. Why does theoretical sentience in machines capture our imagination more than actual pain in beings we share our world with? #AnimalWelfare #Ethics #AIEthics"​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

anthropic.com/research/explori

Image of a stylized neural network. One of the nodes appears to be reaching out of a white box
www.anthropic.comExploring model welfareAnnouncing a new research program at Anthropic on model welfare

Researchers Secretly Ran a Massive, Unauthorized AI Persuasion Experiment on Reddit Users “People do not come here to discuss their views with AI or to be experimented upon. People who visit our sub deserve a space free from this type of intrusion.” said the sub reddit moderator. #AIEthics
404media.co/researchers-secret

404 Media · Researchers Secretly Ran a Massive, Unauthorized AI Persuasion Experiment on Reddit UsersThe researchers' bots generated identities as a sexual assault survivor, a trauma counselor, and a Black man opposed to Black Lives Matter.

AI bots threaten Open Access by undermining libraries, archives, and scholarly publishers. As tech giants invest billions, the battle for quality information intensifies. We must protect universal access. #OpenAccess #AIethics #DigitalLibraries ift.tt/lcK2LwH #byAI

ift.ttAI bots are destroying Open AccessThere's a war going on on the Internet. AI companies with billions to burn are hard at work destroying the websites of libraries, archives, ...