A devastating story about an elaborate scam that cost a refugee family $17k that includes this detail: As part of the ruse, the victim was duped into thinking a very real call from his wife was in fact a deepfake. The blurry line between fact & fiction preys on the vulnerable.
ETHICS
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American President Criticized for Controversial AI-Related Statements
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An American president shouldn’t be saying this stuff, ever
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Ethical Concerns About Influential Tech Intellectuals and Ideology
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he is talking to a dude (yarvin) who wants the US to be a monarchy, is violently and unrepentantly offensive towards childless women, etc. what more do you want? he probably is smart but he’s definitely dangerous. the issue his ethics, not his IQ.
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AI Consensus Through Data Versus Political Entrenchment
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The difference between politics and AI is that in the end in AI people have a tendency to come around to my position, in grudging respect for the data, but people almost never change their mind in politics, regardless of the data.
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AI Cannot Understand Emotions Despite Voice Analysis
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Remember: even if an AI system can pick up on voice, pitch, diction, intonation, or tone, that does not mean that it understands emotions. Even as humans, we make a best guess based on available data, but someone might be just *acting* happy. (Mentioned in prompt as well.)
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Voice Detection Tools Help Analyze Emotion Without True Understanding
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Even though AI can’t actually understand emotion, I think a lot of voice detection tools (even just pacing, for example) is helpful.
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Ghostwriters for Writers: AI-Powered Content Creation Emerging
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Is this a thing? Ghostwriters for writers??
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AI Development Criticized for Wrong-Headed Direction Despite Achievements
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I could watch this astonishing video a thousand times, lamenting each time at how far AI has gone off course — towards an amazing but wrong-headed destination.
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Victim Culture and Social Inequality in Tech Discourse
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Twitter is full on victim olympics lately. The pain and suffering of the rarely discriminated knows no bounds.
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The Art of Refusal: LLM Refusal Methods and Evaluation Benchmarks
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10/ The Art of Refusal – a survey of the current methods used to achieve refusal in LLMs; provides evaluation benchmarks and metrics used to measure abstention in LLMs.
