Today's AI executive order has impressive scope. It also reads like the smashing-together of papers written by contrasting groups, one that adopts wholesale the talking points of AI firms, another that centers civil liberties. @matteo_wong & my analysis.
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Meta Exploits Hollywood Strike to Train AI Cheaply
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Meta hired actors during the Hollywood strike to train AI with their expressions & movements, paying as little as $300 to use the data “in perpetuity.” Nuanced story from @eileenguo illustrating how the AI industry profits from precarious labor conditions.
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First Published Article in The Atlantic About AI Technology Exports
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There's something really emotional about seeing my words published for the first time in the font of one of my favorite publications. And with that classic Atlantic headline. And an iconic illo. https://
theatlantic.com/technology/arc
hive/2023/10/technology-exports-ai-programs-regulations-china/675605/
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US Considers AI Technology Blockade Against China
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For a year the US has been trying to perfect a blockade on China's access to advanced AI chips. Now there's a new idea in consideration: placing a blockade on advanced AI itself. My first scoop for @TheAtlantic
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AI Models Biased Toward English-Language Internet Usage
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Hmm I'm not so sure. Here are maps of global internet usage vs. a proxy for the English language internet usage. Brazil is a huge internet user but barely represented here. Japan is also underrepresented. The English language map pretty neatly maps to all the AI models' hotspots.
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World Models Fail to Register Non-English Speaking Countries
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What's fascinating is how poorly the "world" model registers countries that don't speak English. LATAM, North Africa are almost completely dark. Elucidating research. https://t.co/oiLPQaLMS1
— Karen Hao (@_KarenHao) 6 octobre 2023What's fascinating is how poorly the "world" model registers countries that don't speak English. LATAM, North Africa are almost completely dark. Elucidating research.
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Congress addresses exploitative labor practices in AI industry
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Wow I never thought I’d see the day. Thrilled to see Congress taking up the issue of exploitative labor practices in the AI industry, and incredible to see the work of so many people I admire cited along with my own. https://
jayapal.house.gov/2023/09/13/rep
-jayapal-sen-markey-lead-colleagues-in-demanding-answers-from-ai-companies-on-use-of-underpaid-overworked-data-workers/
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Brilliant Interactive Explainer on How Transformers Work
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This interactive explainer from @madhumita29 & the team at FT about how transformers work is absolutely brilliant. Clear and informative. Required reading. https://
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Generative AI Deepfakes: Nonconsensual Sexual Images of Women
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An incredibly important investigation into how generative AI tools are worsening a longstanding problem with deepfakes: the creation of nonconsensual sexual images of real women who lose complete control over their likeness and end up facing devastating consequences.
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Karen Hao Leaves WSJ to Focus Full-Time on AI
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Today was my last day at @WSJ
. On the China team, I saw some of the most astounding acts of journalism, I witnessed so many daily acts of courage that the extraordinary became mundane. I’m turning back to AI full time—more soon. For now thank you to my colleagues. I am in awe.