Lawmakers are introducing bipartisan bills across the US to fight AI deepfakes, especially non-consensual AI-generated porn and fake celebrity endorsements
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Some signatories of the open letter to pause AI training walk back their positions, others turn out to be fake, and many experts disagree with its proposal
I marvel the technology. But. … Kyle Dent : An open letter calls for companies to pause building AI systems more powerful than GPT-4 due to “profound risks to society and humanity.” … Peter Peng : Co...
Court document: a Colombian judge used ChatGPT to ask legal questions about a case and included its responses in his decision, to save time writing the judgment
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Bari Weiss releases “Twitter Files Part Two”, sharing images of accounts that Twitter allegedly put on “blacklists” and screenshots of internal Slack messages
all in secret, without informing users. Elon Musk / @elonmusk : @DavidSacks As @bariweiss clearly describes, the rules were enforced against the right, but not against the left Ashley Feinberg / @ashl...
Some public libraries in the US and Canada are using open-source software MUSICat to offer their own music streaming services and boost their local music scenes
It's not Spotify, but some cities now host music platforms with their own local flavor. — Claire Woodcock Tweets: @tedgioia , @dbschlosser , @noiseymusic , @janusrose , and @clurrese See also Mediag...
Some schools and organizations are abandoning exam monitoring software made by Proctorio amid a barrage of complaints from students over privacy
Todd Feathers / VICE : Tweets: @motherboard , @fightfortheftr , @eff , @zenalbatross , and @hypervisible Tweets: @motherboard : Proctorio has cashed in on remote learning since the start of the pande...