IRL: Online Life Is Real Life
Our online life is real life. We walk, talk, work, LOL and even love on the Internet – but we don’t always treat it like real life. Host Veronica Belmont explores this disconnect with stories from the wilds of the Web – and gets to the bottom of online issues that affect us all. Whether it’s privacy breaches, closed platforms, hacking, fake news, or cyber bullying, we the people have the power to change the course of the Internet, keeping it healthy, weird, and wonderful for everyone.
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- https://irlpodcast.org/
- Description
- Our online life is real life. We walk, talk, work, LOL and even love on the Internet – but we don’t always treat it like real life. Host Veronica Belmont explores this disconnect with stories from the wilds of the Web – and gets to the bottom of online issues that affect us all. Whether it’s privacy breaches, closed platforms, hacking, fake news, or cyber bullying, we the people have the power to change the course of the Internet, keeping it healthy, weird, and wonderful for everyone.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-02-29 19:32
- last episode published
- 2023-12-14 19:31
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- 44.0 days
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- Mozilla
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- Number of Episodes
- 55
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| 2023-12-14 | We have good news to share! IRL was nominated for an Anthem Award for Responsible Technology. You can help us celebrate by voting for IRL to win.You can vote until Thursday Dec 21st and it only takes a moment. Just go to mzl.la/anthem then look for I... |
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| 2023-12-05 | From Hollywood to Hip Hop, artists are negotiating new boundaries of consent for use of AI in the creative industries. Bridget Todd speaks to artists who are pushing the boundaries.It’s not the first time artists have been squeezed, but generative AI p... |
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| 2023-11-21 | Big tech’s power over language, means power over people. Bridget Todd talks to AI community leaders paving the way for open voice tech in their own languages and dialects.In this episode: AI builders and researchers in the US, Kenya and New Zealand who... |
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| 2023-11-07 | Why does it so often feel like we’re part of a mass AI experiment? What is the responsible way to test new technologies? Bridget Todd explores what it means to live with unproven AI systems that impact millions of people as they roll out across public ... |
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| 2023-10-24 | They’re the essential workers of AI — yet mostly invisible and exploited. Does it have to be this way? Bridget Todd talks to data workers and entrepreneurs pushing for change.Millions of people work on data used to train AI behind the scenes. Often, th... |
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| 2023-10-10 | Are today’s large language models too hot to handle? Bridget Todd digs into the risks and rewards of open sourcing the tech that makes ChatGPT talk.In their competitive rush to release powerful LLMs to the world, tech companies are fueling a controvers... |
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| 2023-09-26 | This season, IRL host Bridget Todd meets people who are balancing the upsides of artificial intelligence with the downsides that are coming into view worldwide. Stay tuned for the first of five biweekly episodes on October 10! IRL is an original podcas... |
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| 2023-04-19 | We have good news to share. IRL: Online Life is Real Life has been nominated for two Webby Awards: one for Public Service and Activism and another for Technology. We need your help. We’d love it if you could go to the links below and vote for us. It... |
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| 2022-09-12 | Life, death and data. AI’s capacity to support research on human health is well documented. But so are the harms of biased datasets and misdiagnoses. How can AI developers build healthier systems? We take a look at a new dataset for Black skin health, ... |
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| 2022-08-29 | Murky political groups are exploiting social media systems to spread disinformation. With important elections taking place around the world this year, who is pushing back? We meet grassroots groups in Africa and beyond who are using AI to tackle disinf... |
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