I do question the origins of the initiative in retrospect, and whether it was ever about helping creators but more about growing the commons — feeding a beast that always wants more data. Either way, the funding discrepancies need to be explained!
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Kit Kat’s AI Break Study: Marketing or Misinformation?
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Kit Kat Canada just used a @GoogleDeepMind study to advertise chocolate.
— Allie K. Miller (@alliekmiller) 24 janvier 2024
Because if AI performs better after a break, maybe you need one too 🍫
(Friendly reminder that LLMs are not truth tellers and reducing hallucinations does not mean you should trust the output blindly.) pic.twitter.com/HufEma2UmDKit Kat Canada just used a @GoogleDeepMind study to advertise chocolate. Because if AI performs better after a break, maybe you need one too (Friendly reminder that LLMs are not truth tellers and reducing hallucinations does not mean you should trust the output blindly.)
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Fine-Tuning Foundation Models: New Safety Risks Emerge
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When users of foundation models customize them through a process called fine-tuning, new safety risks emerge. Read the HAI Policy Brief:
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Unions Over Reskilling: Worker Response to AI Automation
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Me, saying that organizing unions with the power to set terms, not “reskilling”, is how workers should respond to AI in the workplace 👇 https://t.co/DwjGtWxEMt
— Meredith Whittaker (@mer__edith) 24 janvier 2024Me, saying that organizing unions with the power to set terms, not “reskilling”, is how workers should respond to AI in the workplace
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Tweet Volume and Citation Impact: Correlation vs Causation
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is this causal though? couldn’t people just be tweeting more about the papers they’re proud of which happen to garner more citations as well?
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WHO Releases Guidance on Ethics and Governance of Large Multimodal Models
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WHO is releasing new guidance on the ethics and governance of large multi-modal models(LMMs). #AI #GenerativeAI #Data #ML #health #LMMs #ethics #AIgovernance #technews #tech #healthcare https://
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AI Power Concentration Creates Inequality Across Markets
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"An issue with one or a few companies having all the most power and dominating the models is that it creates tremendous inequality, and not just with people who are less wealthy and less wealthy countries, but also professor researchers, students, entrepreneurs, hobbyists… If
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Stanford research reveals AI disparities in U.S. government IRS algorithms
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A research team supported by @StanfordHAI
’s Hoffman-Yee grant showed how AI-driven learning can benefit U.S. government agencies, and uncovered disparities in IRS algorithms. https://
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Managing AI Liability Risk in Health Systems
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How are health systems and clinicians managing AI liability risk? Attend this hybrid session with HAI faculty affiliate and @StanfordLaw professor @MichelleM_Mello on Wednesday, January 24, from 12-1:30pm PST. https://
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Don’t Use AI Art to Depict Unfamiliar Cultures
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Protip — don't use synthetic "art" to illustrate your articles and ESPECIALLY don't do so if you're prompting it to depict a scene from a culture (or like here cultures!) you don't belong to. This is some epic self-beclowning. (h/t @jeffadoctor who found this atrocity.)