If you’re curious, this was Google’s reply that they deleted:
@katecrawford
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Google Confirms No Private Data Used in Training
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So Google has responded to say that no private data was used in training. Good to have this confirmed on the record. (Maybe it’s Barb to its friends) https://
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Confirming Bard Hallucination and Gmail Training Data Clarification
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Thanks for this. So can I confirm that this was a Bard hallucination, and that there's no Gmail data included whatsoever in the training process?
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Concerns about Bard’s training data including Gmail
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Umm, anyone a little concerned that Bard is saying its training dataset includes… Gmail? I'm assuming that's flat out wrong, otherwise Google is crossing some serious legal boundaries.
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AI governance, benefit distribution, and equitable access require anticipatory work
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"In fact, we should expect AI systems to do so
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GPT-4: Risks of Ideological Reinforcement and Foreclosure of Contestation
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Crucial section from OpenAI's GPT4 paper:
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AI Music Innovation: Opportunity and Risk of Power Concentration
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"We have seen with the drum machine that there is an opportunity to use AI to release a new wave of musical innovation. The risk is that the technology will concentrate power in ways that devalue and homogenize music." Love this 808 story, @Jackstilgoe
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Facial Recognition in Cars: Privacy Risks and Insurance Discrimination
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No, cars can't tell when you're angry. But they can increase your insurance premiums when you frown. These systems use deceptive claims, cause unfair harms to consumers, threaten privacy, and discriminate against people with disabilities. Our FTC comment: https://
regulations.gov/comment/FTC-20
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Facial tracking surveillance at World Pride criticized as pseudoscience
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Hey #WorldPride? Maybe don’t do this nonsense facial tracking on people’s ‘mood’ at Mardi Gras. It’s pseudoscientific surveillance theatre
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Ghost Cites and ChatGPT: Academic Citation Crisis Worsens
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This is a classic story about an article that was never written yet became widely cited. "Ghost cites" were always problem in academia. But it's about to get much, much worse. This is how Chat GPT summarizes this famously non-existent article: