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Nicholas Diakopoulos

@ndiakopoulos
22 posts
2024-01-09
Wow, here's @openAI's rebuttal: https://openai.com/... — I tried *really hard* for a month to get GPT models to regurgitate NYT content in August leading here: https://generative-ai-newsroom.com/ ... — it was extremely rare on regular articles.. case likely cherry picks as per #4 in rebuttal
2024-01-09 View on X
OpenAI

OpenAI responds to The New York Times' lawsuit: training is fair use and there is an opt-out, “regurgitation” is a rare bug, and NYT “manipulated” its models

written evidence (LLM0113) Dan Milmo / The Guardian : ‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says Ryan Daws / AI News : Copyrighted data...

2023-08-05
Wow, who would have thought regulation like the DSA works. TikTok is making its personalized content algorithm optional in Europe: https://www.theverge.com/...
2023-08-05 View on X
Reuters

To comply with the EU's DSA, TikTok plans to let users turn off personalized recommendations in For You, remove targeted ads for users aged 13 to 17, and more

Martin Coulter / Reuters :

2023-06-30
This article frames the challenge as classifying images as “real” or “fake” but that's the wrong way to think about using AI here. We need AI systems with interfaces that explain to forensic analysts what features are indicative of fakeness or realness: https://www.nytimes.com/...
2023-06-30 View on X
New York Times

A test of five AI-image detection tools finds they tend to struggle with altered and low-quality images and sometimes fail even when an image is obviously fake

2023-06-29
This article frames the challenge as classifying images as “real” or “fake” but that's the wrong way to think about using AI here. We need AI systems with interfaces that explain to forensic analysts what features are indicative of fakeness or realness: https://www.nytimes.com/...
2023-06-29 View on X
New York Times

A test of five AI-image detection tools finds they tend to struggle with altered and low-quality images and sometimes fail even when an image is obviously fake

The pope did not wear Balenciaga.  And filmmakers did not fake the moon landing.  In recent months, however …

“The lawsuit seeks to test out a novel legal theory — that OpenAI violated the rights of millions of internet users when it used their social media comments, blog posts, Wikipedia articles and family recipes” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2023-06-29 View on X
Washington Post

A California law firm launches a class-action lawsuit against OpenAI, claiming the company violated millions of internet users' rights by scraping their data

A California law firm says the company's use of scraped data from the web violates the rights of millions of internet users

2023-05-12
Am I reading this right? The AI Act won't apply to open source systems (unless integrated into high-risk systems) ... *except* open source foundation models? Uhhh...🤔 https://twitter.com/...
2023-05-12 View on X
Reuters

EU lawmakers agree to ban facial recognition use in public and predictive policing tools, and set transparency rules on generative AI; details must be finalized

This is going to make @FiveThirtyEight or @TheEconomist style predictive journalism around elections much more difficult, given the potential of those simulations to influence voters. https://twitter.com/...
2023-05-12 View on X
Reuters

EU lawmakers agree to ban facial recognition use in public and predictive policing tools, and set transparency rules on generative AI; details must be finalized

High risk AI now includes: “AI systems to influence voters in political campaigns and in recommender systems used by social media platforms (with more than 45 million users under the Digital Services Act)” https://www.europarl.europa.eu/ ...
2023-05-12 View on X
Reuters

EU lawmakers agree to ban facial recognition use in public and predictive policing tools, and set transparency rules on generative AI; details must be finalized

2023-05-08
“Two OpenAI contractors spoke to NBC News about their work training the system behind ChatGPT” https://www.nbcnews.com/...
2023-05-08 View on X
Fortune

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the “technology is not yet good enough that people can be full remote forever, particularly on startups”

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman isn't averse to change—he helped kickstart the current A.I. race with chatbot ChatGPT, after all, threatening …

“Two OpenAI contractors spoke to NBC News about their work training the system behind ChatGPT” https://www.nbcnews.com/...
2023-05-08 View on X
NBC News

Two OpenAI contractors, one of them earning $15 per hour, speak about their work labeling the text and photos used to train ChatGPT and OpenAI's other products

Two OpenAI contractors spoke to NBC News about their work training the system behind ChatGPT.

2023-03-15
In learning Dutch I've already found chatting with ChatGPT quite helpful, moreso than a dictionary — this is a compelling use case for the technology https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-15 View on X
Bing Blogs

Microsoft says the new Bing is “running on GPT-4, which we've customized for search” and was using an early version of the model over the past five weeks

Congratulations to our partners at Open AI for their release of GPT-4 today.  —  We are happy to confirm that the new Bing …

In learning Dutch I've already found chatting with ChatGPT quite helpful, moreso than a dictionary — this is a compelling use case for the technology https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-15 View on X
TechCrunch

Duolingo debuts a Max subscription for $30 per month or $168 per year, offering GPT-4 features for English speakers taking Spanish and French courses on iOS

GPT-4 deepens the conversation on Duolingo.  —  View product  —  Language  —  GPT-4 Tweets: @khanacademy : Did you hear? 👀 Khan Academy is using GPT-4 from @OpenAI to shape the fut...

2023-03-04
Current deflection rhetoric “it is very hard to foresee everything that will actually happen when a system hits the real world.” Not saying it isn't hard, but what should be the baseline expectation for foresight from an accountability standpoint? https://www.technologyreview.com/ ...
2023-03-04 View on X
MIT Technology Review

Q&A with OpenAI's Sandhini Agarwal, Liam Fedus, Jan Leike, and co-founder John Schulman on training ChatGPT, dealing with virality, fixing problems, and more

Exclusive conversations that take us behind the scenes of a cultural phenomenon.  —  When OpenAI launched ChatGPT … Tweets: @tiagodf , @trengriffin , @antonioregalado , @techreview...

2022-12-01
So glad we don't need to see old-looking actors anymore. Sheesh. I wonder if this could impact the market for plastic surgery in Hollywoo though. https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-01 View on X
Gizmodo

Disney unveils FRAN, an AI tool that helps TV or film producers make an actor look older or younger without the need for complex and expensive visual effects

With just a few clicks, actors can look younger or older without the need for expensive visual effects.  —  Alerts

2021-11-03
Just a start ... imagine all that ad inventory in virtual backgrounds waiting to be branded! https://twitter.com/...
2021-11-03 View on X
The Verge

Zoom says it is testing ads on its free Basic tier; the ads appear on the browser page shown to users at the end of a call

2021-11-02
Just a start ... imagine all that ad inventory in virtual backgrounds waiting to be branded! https://twitter.com/...
2021-11-02 View on X
The Verge

Zoom says it is testing showing ads to free users; the ads appear on the browser page shown to users at the end of a call

They'll appear in a browser page at the end of meetings  —  Zoom is piloting showing ads to users on its free “Basic” tier, the company has announced in a blog post.

2021-01-27
This is an important critique of the limitations of for-hire algorithm auditing. Accountability only happens when there are institutions with the power to compel or sanction based on information provided by an audit. And auditors need to be independent. https://www.fastcompany.com/ ...
2021-01-27 View on X
Fast Company

Algorithmic audits alone won't provide the accountability needed for AI systems because they lack the necessary market incentives and real government oversight

Alex C. Engler / Fast Company : Tweets: @thyacinth , @greene_dm , @johndavisson , @mona_sloane , @jeffbigham , @ndiakopoulos , @peterkwells , @alexcengler , @mark_riedl , @mathbab...

2020-06-22
AJC with @robots_united launches automated real-estate articles: “AJC Bot reviews county sales records and automatically generates draft articles tailored to ZIP codes all over metro Atlanta” https://www.ajc.com/...
2020-06-22 View on X
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution partners with United Robots to generate real estate articles tailored to ZIP code, based on large data sets

Atlanta Journal-Constitution : Tweets: @ndiakopoulos , @glenngabe , and @glenngabe See also Mediagazer Tweets: Nick Diakopoulos / @ndiakopoulos : AJC with @robots_united launches ...

2020-06-15
A lot of people have been talking about Microsoft's transition to automated curation. There are some hints of potential impacts of that in this study where we compare automated to human curation in Apple News https://twitter.com/...
2020-06-15 View on X
Mac O’Clock

Research comparing curation by humans and algorithms on Apple News shows that human editors chose more diverse sources, more evenly, and less “soft news”

Jack Bandy / Mac O’Clock :

2020-06-14
A lot of people have been talking about Microsoft's transition to automated curation. There are some hints of potential impacts of that in this study where we compare automated to human curation in Apple News https://twitter.com/...
2020-06-14 View on X
INMA

Research comparing curation by humans and algorithms on Apple News shows that human editors chose more diverse sources, more evenly, and less “soft news”

Two Northwestern University researchers audited two Apple News sections: one curated by editors and one by an algorithm. Tweets: @inmaorg , @ndiakopoulos , and @inmaorg See also Me...