X is automatically opting users in to sharing data w/ the Grok chatbot for training and fine-tuning. Historically this is the kind of thing that pisses people off, particularly if they're not aware of it in advance. You can turn it off here: https://
x.com/settings/grok_
settings
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X Auto-Opts Users Into Grok Data Sharing Without Consent
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AI at Work: Impact on Loneliness and Employee Wellbeing
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Is #AI at Work Making Us Lonelier and Less Healthy? Recent research from authors David De Cremer and Joel Koopman, published by the Harvard Business Review, dive deep into the impact of AI on workplace #wellbeing, revealing some startling insights: Loneliness Spike:
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Work-life balance crisis: hospital care versus workplace demands
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The porridge I was feeding my father in the hospital almost splashed off the spoon as I rushed to respond to my colleague. But my colleagues weren’t exactly holding their breath for my input.
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LAION Lawsuit: Plaintiff’s Claim Coverage Limitations Identified
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The problem we discussed above, is that the plaintiff filed a claim that does not and cannot cover the whole of LAION's activities. That was a mistake.
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LAION Image Embeddings: Legal Implications of Lossy Reproduction
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LAION computes embeddings, they are compressed forms of the images, could be easily argued to be another lossy Reproduction. (If Robert's lawyers had done their job well, this would have come up.)
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Embeddings as Derivatives: TDM Exception Legal Analysis
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I think this is a technical mistake: an embedding, as used in the comparison, is a compression of the original input through a neural model that can be reconstructed. It's a derivative! TDM exceptions do now allow creating derivatives either, let alone disseminating them.
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Text Mining vs Generative AI: Research Tool Distinction
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That definition makes it clear TDM is intended as research tool, intended to produce only statistics, not extract expressions into a neural database. There is a qualitative difference in ML being used for mere analysis and research, and ML being used for generative applications!
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TDM Definition and Legislative Intent in AI Regulation
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I think there's a strong argument for this, based on definition of TDM which is "analysis" and "analytical" only (which imply no downstream uses except "research") — nothing to do with reproducing inputs or automating labour. But it does go against the intuition of legislators.
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Bot or Expert: Moral and Intellectual Consistency in AI Systems
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I think Ollie/Jenny is a bot, but if not, there is nothing but my admiration for your work and expertise in our interactions here! You have got things consistently right, both morally and intellectually. If there's any hint of frustration it's with the system itself…
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Human bias affects model’s count of R’s in strawberry
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I’m just guessing this is the reason but the modal answer from all human statements about the count of R’s in “strawberry” might actually be 2. So it does it because we do.