We live in a world of weaponized adtech, corrupt administrations, privately owned media… what's the risk that hasn't already played out?
@alexjc
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AI Disinformation Threat to Elections Dismissed as Unrealistic
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"Elections are at risk of due to AI disinformation." Of all the claims about AI this is by far the most ridiculous! Tell me you have no idea how the world works without telling me you have no idea how the world works.
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Open-source specifications need significant clarification before release
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12a 12b and 12c cover open-source more clearly. Honestly, they need to clean this up a lot before it goes live. Even the 5d you mention should be 5e.
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GitHub’s Fair Use Stance on Copilot Shapes Company Culture
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She works at GitHub; they've made it clear they believe CoPilot is entirely Fair Use, so that mindset reflects in the company culture.
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Open Licensing and Public Domain in Creative Commons
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No, the implication is public domain and CC0, but Creative Commons in general is sometimes considered "openly licensed" too.
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Creative Commons Licenses and AI Contract Considerations
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Those cases don't cover CC though? A creative commons license is similar to a contract as both sides get to decide if they want to use it and thus we assume they have consideration. One side doesn't have a say on terms, but that's basically most contracts these days…
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Text Mining Exceptions vs AI Model Training Legal Boundaries
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Or processing books to count word frequency statistics, that's a valid Text & Data-Mining exception. It's very different than learning to regenerate the same book word-by-word!
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Fair Use for AI: International Legal Framework Development
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This is the key part of the thread. They're trying to make a Fair Use clause for AI and not sure how to do it. They'll likely end up with something similar to UK/DE/EU — and also ensuring it's Berne compatible.
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Japan AI Data Mining Copyright Compliance Berne Convention
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This is limited to non-expressive data-mining, or "information analysis" as they call it. If they approximate the image or reproduce Copyrighted expressions, then Japan is bound to the Berne Convention like any other country.
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Fair Use Training Contaminates Entire AI Applications with Legal Risk
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TL:DR; You can't go from RED to ORANGE. Any component trained under Fair Use remains RED until you retrain. It will contaminate all the other parts of your application too, so even if the rest is GREEN you're still liable for the worst case RED bit!