Why did OpenAI use Scarlett Johansson's voice? As Jessa Lingel & I discuss in our journal article on AI agents, there's a long history of using white women's voices to “personalize” a technology to make it feel safe and non-threatening while it is capturing maximum data.
ETHICS
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Sam Altman Used Scarlett Johansson Voice to Comfort AI Adoption
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Sam Altman has said as much. NYT: he told ScarJo her voice would help "consumers to feel comfortable with the seismic shift concerning humans and AI” as her voice "would be comforting to people.”
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Safety Features Evaluation Requires Further Practical Validation
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This work is preliminary. Whereas we show that there are many features that seem *plausibly* relevant to safety applications, much more work is needed to establish that our approach is useful in practice.
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Claude’s Secrecy Feature: Information Withholding Mechanism
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One notable example is a "secrecy" feature. We observe that it fires for descriptions of people or characters keeping a secret. Activating this feature results in Claude withholding information from the user when it otherwise would not.
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Model Safety Features: Vulnerabilities, Deception, and Bias Detection
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Among these millions of features, we find several that are relevant to questions of model safety and reliability. These include features related to code vulnerabilities, deception, bias, sycophancy, power-seeking, and criminal activity.
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Concerns About Hidden Practices and Lack of Transparency
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I get such dodgy feelings about them trying to hide WHAT they're doing so bad
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GPT-4o Safety Concerns: OpenAI’s Approach to Unsafe Queries
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It certainly makes you wonder what it is that OpenAI has in GPT-4o that allows that service to (presumably) answer the query without safety concerns (unless in fact it *is* unsafe and OpenAI has done nothing about it.)
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Software Reliability at Scale: Testing and Safety Nets Matter
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“A lot of the traditional ways of thinking of software at scale haven't changed. The way you have to approach reliability, the way that you get trust through testing, the fact that you do really need those safety nets.
— DataRobot (@DataRobot) 21 mai 2024
Safety nets might even be more important than the… pic.twitter.com/mpK3u4AIDp“A lot of the traditional ways of thinking of software at scale haven't changed. The way you have to approach reliability, the way that you get trust through testing, the fact that you do really need those safety nets. Safety nets might even be more important than the
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Clearview AI: 3-year investigation, ready for YouTube video
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2024 et des gens découvre Clearview AI, cette entreprise du démon.
— Defend Intelligence (Anis Ayari) (@DFintelligence) 21 mai 2024
Ca fait 3 ans que j'ai démarré une enquête dessus et je l'ai jamais publié parce que tous les mois il y a des nouvelles dingueries.
Vous voulez une vidéo youtube dessus ? j'ai déjà mon mon board d'enquêteur… https://t.co/x78qGAO9mc pic.twitter.com/oEV8ZDJ8Ls2024 and people discover Clearview AI, that demon company. It's been 3 years since I started an investigation on it and I never published it because every month there is crazy news. Do you want a YouTube video about it? I already have my investigator board.
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Open AI as Common Good: Ownership and Transparency Over Closed Systems
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like imagining a future where AI is something people can own, understand, tweak, build and improve together instead of a closed/black-box product full of secrets A common-good knowledge built on top of open-standard like the internet is or even science it self (no one privately