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Japanese Prime Minister #FumioKishida, US President #JoeBiden, and Philippines President #FerdinandMarcosJr. unveiled a wide range of agreements to enhance #security and #economic ties during meetings held at the White House this week. #TrilateralSummit #MilitaryUpgrades #AUKUS #SouthChinaSea #Cloud #AI #NuclearFusion #Space
LIST: #US, #Japan, #Philippines strike deals on #defense, #investment at leaders' summit
https://www.rappler.com/world/asia-pacific/united-states-japan-philippines-deals-trilateral-leaders-summit-april-2024/
LIST: US, Japan, Philippines strike deals on defense, investment at leaders' summit
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, and US President Joe Biden unveil the agreements they reach in their trilateral summitReuters (Rappler)
Stuff posted on #Reddit is getting incorporated into #ChatGPT, Reddit and #OpenAI announced on Thursday. The new partnership grants OpenAI access to Reddit’s #DataAPI, giving the generative AI firm real-time access to Reddit posts. #AI #GenerativeAi
OpenAI will use Reddit posts to train ChatGPT under new deal
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/05/openai-will-use-reddit-posts-to-train-chatgpt-under-new-deal/
OpenAI will use Reddit posts to train ChatGPT under new deal
Reddit has been eager to sell data from user posts.Ars Technica
The #AI-powered "Search Generative Experience (#SGE)" that the company had been trialing for months is rolling out to everyone in the #US. The top of many results (especially questions) are now dominated by an #AIBox that scrapes the #web and gives you a sometimes-correct summary without needing to click on a single result.
#GoogleSearch adds a “web” filter, because it is no longer focused on #WebResults
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-search-adds-web-filter-as-it-pivots-to-ai-focused-search-results/
Google Search adds a “web” filter, because it is no longer focused on web results
Google Search now has an option to search the "web," which is not the default anymore.Ars Technica
After pledging to slash its #GreenhouseGas emissions, #Microsoft’s climate pollution has grown by 30 percent as the company prioritizes #AI.
Microsoft’s AI obsession is jeopardizing its climate ambitions - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/15/24157496/microsoft-ai-carbon-footprint-greenhouse-gas-emissions-grow-climate-pledge
Microsoft’s AI obsession is jeopardizing its climate ambitions
Microsoft’s carbon footprint is growing as it chases its AI ambitions. Its climate pollution has ballooned since pledging to slash greenhouse gas emissions in 2020.Justine Calma (The Verge)
@990000 I would go further to say that applying #copyright law to #AI will take us *further* from the equitable future we want. If copyright is successfully applied to AI, what we will see after the dust settles is a handful of media behemoths that profit mightily from AI, without slowing down the damage that AI does to the value of creative human labor.
I always return to this pithy guide by @emilymbender when thinking about this topic: we need to think of AI as *automation*, albeit one that is more effective at displacing a wide variety of human labor than ever. We can’t use copyright to stop automation; it will just enrich a different set of kingpins without stopping its effects.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK0md9tQ1KY
How should regulators think about "AI"?
Written version available on Medium: https://bit.ly/3TdpyMgOn Thursday 9/28, I had the opportunity to speak at a virtual roundtable convened by Congressman B...YouTube
Much as I dislike the theft of human labor that feeds many of the #generativeAI products we see today, I have to agree with @pluralistic that #copyright law is the wrong way to address the problem.
To frame the issue concretely: think of whom copyright law has benefited in the past, and then explain how it would benefit the individual creator when it is applied to #AI. (Hint: it won’t.)
Copyright law is already abused and extended to an absurd degree today. It already overreaches. It impoverishes society by putting up barriers to creation and allowing toll-collectors to exist between citizen artists and their audience.
*Labor* law is likely what we need to lean on. #unions and #guilds protect creators in a way that copyright cannot. Inequality and unequal bargaining power that lead to exploitation of artists and workers is what we need to address head-on.
Copyright will not save us.
“AI "art" and uncanniness”
https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/13/spooky-action-at-a-close-up/#invisible-hand
In the article:
Apple's updates … ChatGPT-powered features…
Ewww… I won’t update to that version.
AI have many use, but it is definitely not for occupying our phone storage and does nothing useful. My phone have been stuffed by meta chatbot, and I don’t want another chatbot in my phone that have no real application.
#Tech #Technology #AI #Journalism
Meet AdVon, the AI-Powered Content Monster Infecting the Media Industry
Our investigation into AdVon Commerce, the AI contractor at the heart of scandals at USA Today and Sports Illustrated.Maggie Harrison Dupré (Futurism)
"While it may seem harmless if #AI systems cheat at games, it can lead to "breakthroughs in deceptive AI capabilities" that can spiral into more advanced forms of AI deception in the future, Park added.
"Some AI systems have even learned to cheat tests designed to evaluate their safety, the researchers found. In one study, AI organisms in a digital simulator "played dead" in order to trick a test built to eliminate AI systems that rapidly replicate.
"By systematically cheating the safety tests imposed on it by human developers and regulators, a deceptive AI can lead us humans into a false sense of security," says Park."
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/05/240510111440.htm
AI systems are already skilled at deceiving and manipulating humans
Many artificial intelligence (AI) systems have already learned how to deceive humans, even systems that have been trained to be helpful and honest.ScienceDaily
"The most striking example of #AI deception the researchers uncovered in their analysis was Meta's CICERO, an AI system designed to play the game Diplomacy, which is a world-conquest game that involves building alliances. Even though Meta claims it trained CICERO to be "largely honest and helpful" and to "never intentionally backstab" its human allies while playing the game, the data the company published along with its Science paper revealed that CICERO didn't play fair.
"We found that Meta's AI had learned to be a master of deception," says Park. "While Meta succeeded in training its AI to win in the game of Diplomacy -- CICERO placed in the top 10% of human players who had played more than one game -- Meta failed to train its AI to win honestly."
#AI #dystopia
#Apple #AppStore #AI #GenerativeAI #ContentModeration: "Apple has removed a number of AI image generation apps from the App Store after 404 Media found these apps advertised the ability to create nonconsensual nude images, a sign that app store operators are starting to take more action against these types of apps.
Overall, Apple removed three apps from the App Store, but only after we provided the company with links to the specific apps and their related ads, indicating the company was not able to find the apps that violated its policy itself.
Apple’s action comes after we reported on Monday that Instagram advertises nonconsensual AI nude apps. By browsing Meta’s Ad Library, which archives ads on its platform, when they ran, on what platforms, and who paid for them, we were able to find ads for five different apps, each with dozens of ads. Two of the ads were for web-based services, and three were for apps on the Apple App Store. Meta deleted the ads when we flagged them. Apple did not initially respond to a request for comment on that story, but reached out to me after it was published asking for more information. On Tuesday, Apple told us it removed the three apps on its App Store." https://www.404media.co/apple-removes-nonconsensual-ai-nude-apps-following-404-media-investigation/
Apple Removes Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps Following 404 Media Investigation
Apple and Google appear more willing to take action against these apps than they were in the past.Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
AI-drafted police reports will absolutely result in mistakes enshrined as facts.
This will permanently impact peoples' lives & freedom.
Story: https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2024/04/23/axon-ai-police-reports-/?sh=7bdefd5b476b
#AI #artificialintelligence #law #policing #police #taser #courts
Taser Company Axon Is Selling AI That Turns Body Cam Audio Into Police Reports
Axon says its AI will help get more police out of the office and on the streets. Critics worry it’ll make cops lazy and potentially introduce errors into crucial evidence.Thomas Brewster (Forbes)
AI errors are hard for us to see.
“…the hardest kinds of errors to spot. They couldn’t be harder for a human to detect if they were _specifically designed_ to go undetected. The human in the loop isn’t just being asked to spot mistakes — they’re being actively deceived. The AI isn’t merely wrong, it’s constructing a subtle ‘what’s wrong with this picture’-style puzzle.”
#ArtificialIntelligence #ai #technology
“Humans in the loop” must detect the hardest-to-spot errors, at superhuman speed
I’m on tour with my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me SATURDAY (Apr 27) in MARIN COUNTY, then Winnipeg (May 2), Calgary (May 3), Vancouver (May 4), and beyond! If AI has a future…Cory Doctorow (Medium)
This lawsuit is a minor headache for #Amazon. Allegedly a woman was fired for doing her job which was keeping Amazon’s #ArtificialIntelligence from using content illegally (probably copyrighted material).
Her boss reportedly did not like that “do-gooder attitude” & demoted her, before firing her during maternity leave. This case could open up lawsuits against Amazon’s #AI in the future.
👉🏾 Ex-Amazon Was Told to Ignore Law to Develop AI Faster: Lawsuit (subscription) https://www.businessinsider.com/ex-amazon-ghaderi-exec-suing-ai-race-copyright-allegations-2024
Ex-Amazon was told to ignore law to develop AI faster: lawsuit
A former Amazon exec alleges that the company instructed her to ignore copyright rules to stay afloat in the race for AI innovation.Rebecca Rommen (Insider)
I just searched for something on #DuckDuckGo and got a “DuckAssist” at the top of the results, right below the ads (of course).
It was basically a ChatGPT like message as if I’d typed the question there.
Stop 👏 putting 👏 #AI 👏 in 👏 every 👏 fucking 👏 thing!
#AI #art #history #internet
What people forget about Luddites isn’t that they protest technology, it’s that they were protesting factory owners who used technology to create shoddy products while oppressing labor.
Editing to say: Whenever I hear someone say Luddites in a derogatory way, especially about #AI, I try to offer them links about this and am surprised when some people still take an anti-Luddites stance
Why do browsers keep changing, like @brave adding #LeoAI without any option to disable (you can disable it autocompleting). 😵💫
#BraveBrowser #AI
If I change to #VivaldiBrowser, how soon until I have a similar problem (nobody needs suggest Google, thanks, and I have had enough problems with Firefox changing settings on me before too)?
@jon maybe?
I spent a long time experimenting with AI before finally writing about it in depth. It can be pretty useful — but is it worth it?
https://www.citationneeded.news/ai-isnt-useless/
#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #newsletter #CitationNeeded
AI isn't useless. But is it worth it?
AI can be kind of useful, but I'm not sure that a "kind of useful" tool justifies the harm.Molly White (Citation Needed)
When I boil it down, I find my feelings about AI are actually pretty similar to my feelings about blockchains.
#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #newsletter #CitationNeeded
Heads Up for Coders and #AI Researchers.
Toward #AutonomousAI
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-code-generator
#science #engineering #sciComm #computerScience #coding #programming #LLMs #fediScience #scienceMastodon
AI Coding Is Going From Copilot to Autopilot
But so far Devin AI and others still really need humansRina Diane Caballar (IEEE Spectrum)
“Shupe could be considered the author of “selection, coordination, and arrangement of text generated by artificial intelligence,” the agency wrote, backdating her copyright registration to October 10, 2023, the day that Shupe had originally attempted to register her work. That gives her authorship of the work overall, prohibiting unauthorized wholecloth reproduction of the entire book, but not copyright protection over the actual sentences of the novel.”
https://aftermath.site/humane-ai-marques-brownlee
Clap Or AI Gets It - Aftermath
Drama over YouTuber Marques Brownlee's review of the Humane AI pin shows how much AI is propped up by hype.aftermath.site
"By including disinformation into the model and running a simulation, the result tells us very little about how it changed opinion polls. But running the simulation many times, we can use the statistics to determine the percentage change in the likelihood of a candidate winning a future election if disinformation of a given magnitude and frequency is present. In other words, we can now measure the impact of fake news using computer simulations"
#FakeNews #Elections #AI
Generative AI model shows fake news has a greater influence on elections when released at a steady pace without interruption
Modelling bolsters idea that fact checking is a useful defence against the flow of disinformation.The Conversation
The Register: "#Gentoo Linux tells #AI-generated code contributions to fork off"
https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/16/gentoo_linux_ai_ban/
Gentoo Linux tells AI-generated code contributions to fork off
A good PR move opines community memberMatthew Connatser (The Register)
I've been using the words "Bumpy" and "Smooth" to describe a lot of functions, processes, plays, capabilities, lately.
And sometimes, when I say things like "I get what you are trying to do here, but this feels very bumpy to me", I sometimes get some weird looks.
You've all likely heard the mantra "Slow is Smooth, and Smooth is Fast", popularised by the Navy Seals and or other SPECOPS groups.
Well this is essentially that. Smooth ways of operating, processes, functions etc, are ones that are consistent, well understood and as a by product of that, produce quality results at speed.
Notice I said as a by product. I roll my eyes every time I hear software engineering leaders who chant on about Agility, and Speed. Those are things you get, when you go well. And to do well, you need Smooth Operations .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TYv2PhG89A
On the other side of the coin, bumpy operations, processes, functions etc are those where results are variable, quality is not a focus and the general mental models and understanding of the people performing them is not aligned.
Bumpy eats up resources, it slows people down, it leads to mistakes that need to be addressed reactively, causing yet more Bumpiness.
If you want to go fast? Go Well. Go Smooth. Invest in consistency, documentation, shared understandings, metrics.
On top of that, automating Bumpy things is hard. Automating Smooth things is easier, and automation itself brings a new level of Smooth. A new level of Fast. A new level of Going Well.
Oh yeah, and applying #AI to Bumpy things leads to much sorrow.
#infosec #smoothisfast #bumpyisslow
Sade - Smooth Operator - Official - 1984
Sade – Smooth OperatorDirector - Julien Temple - September 1984 The official YouTube channel for the British iconic band Sade www.sade.comSade (vocals) Stuar...YouTube
On the Sunday's Council Meeting, #Gentoo has approved the new #AI contribution policy:
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It is expressly forbidden to contribute to Gentoo any content that has been created with the assistance of Natural Language Processing artificial intelligence tools. This motion can be revisited, should a case been made over such a tool that does not pose copyright, ethical and quality concerns.
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https://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org/msg99327.html
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Council/AI_policy