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
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Scientists urge balanced US policy on international scientific collaboration
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Many scientists spoke to us in the hopes that US policy makers will take a more even-handed approach, recognizing the security risks for certain types of collaboration but not getting rid of it all together. A recent MIT report lays out on alternative. 9/ https://
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Senator Hawley Cites AI Labor Exploitation in Senate Hearing
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Senator @HawleyMO citing our story in a Senate hearing on the Oversight of AI: "We're told that AI…is a whole new kind of industry…almost magical…yet it looks like it depends…on very old fashioned, disgusting, immoral labor exploitation." https://
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OpenAI Kenya Workers Story Breaking News Coverage
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Cannot stress enough how important @billyperrigo
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OpenAI Generated Harmful Content Examples to Train AI Safety
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3/ To have enough examples of the harmful content it wanted its AI systems to avoid, OpenAI researchers generated some with AI. In one case, they asked AI to write a post of a teenage girl whose friend had enacted self-harm. OpenAI discusses this here: https://
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ChatGPT’s reliance on two years of human labor for instruction-following
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2/ Without these 2+ years of labor, ChatGPT wouldn't be able to chat. It wouldn't know how to answer questions. Ask “explain the moon landing to a 6-year-old,” and it will uselessly reply with word associations. OpenAI talks about this here. https://
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The Dark Side of AI Content Moderation
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Imagine how much worse it becomes when the content is also violent & grotesque. This is unavoidable with generative AI. “It’s something that needs to get done,” said Mark Sears, CEO of @theCloudFactory
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Exploitative Labor and Colonial Undertones in Content Moderation Work
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Much of this work deals with benign content, though that doesn't mean the job is itself benign. I and many others have written about how easily these jobs become exploitative. Here's a piece I wrote last year on the colonial undertones of this labor.
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Josh Dzieza covers AI human labor work for New York Magazine
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@joshdzieza recently covered what this part of the work looks like in a fantastic story for @NYMag
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nymag.com/intelligencer/
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