Dear God make it stop. Say it with me – “AI uses human data.” So if “it” ever exhibits knowledge it’s already an aggregate of stolen data, IP and creativity from humans. Also – Maslow’s hierarchy was built on Blackfoot First Nations wisdom and has been miscommunicated.
ETHICS
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OpenAI training data transparency and AP licensing concerns
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Yeah I've been wondering about that – is the more recent training data mostly stuff they've licensed from sources like the AP? https://
apnews.com/article/openai
-chatgpt-associated-press-ap-f86f84c5bcc2f3b98074b38521f5f75a
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Writing Teachers React to AI and College Admission Essays Context
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I was trying to figure out why many writing teachers seemed so annoyed at this tweet and realized they weren’t reading the context. I am clearly referring to college admissions essays. Sigh. I think I need to delete this.
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AI Capabilities and Limitations: Critics Must Engage Directly
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This isn't intended to be snarky, there are lots of things AI does terribly, by the way. But I have often been surprised by the things it does very well. We need more critics to actually engage with these systems so everyone can learn more about them.
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Red Team Your Own AI Beliefs: Empirical Testing for Critics
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I think a very useful thing for AI critics to do would be to "red team" their own beliefs by spending some serious time and effort (maybe with help) to see if they can get AI to do the things they say it can't. If they are right, that is very valuable benchmarking information.
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Aligning LLMs to Quote from Pre-Training Data
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9/ Aligning LLMs to Quote from Pre-Training Data – proposes techniques to align LLMs to leverage memorized information quotes directly from pre-training data.
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Experience versus intelligence: reframing expertise assessment
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I often find myself mentally swapping "smartest" for "most experienced", since "experience" helps imply that it's for a specific field, not everything
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Future AI Threat: When Humans Truly Fear Machines
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The Butlerian Jihad will start the moment people genuinely feel threatened by the machines. There's no risk of this happening with this generation of skin-deep human-mimicry bots, but eventually, one day, it will happen.
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Israeli Military Deploys Lavender AI System in Gaza Operations
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Some more info here https://
972mag.com/lavender-ai-is
raeli-army-gaza/
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