African workers filtering violent & horrific content on Facebook are suing the company + its local outsourcer Sama in Nairobi. What does this trio of cases mean for how Meta & its algorithms will operate? My piece with the brilliant
@davidpilling
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African Workers Sue Meta Over Violent Content Moderation
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Model card withheld from external publication
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Model card in the Appendix: “withheld from external publication”
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PaLM 2 Technical Report Missing Information Disclosure
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They didn’t even disclose this info in “PaLM 2 Technical Report” https://
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Importance of Disclosing Model Size and Training Data
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In this particular case, I think it’s perfect fine to tell people how large a model is, and what size is the training data it was trained on. It’s the absolute minimum information one should convey (say, in a model card) anyways, to communicate about the ML model to its audience.
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ML Trade Secrets Impossible to Keep Due to Research Culture Sharing
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As I’d said before, it is impossible to keep trade secrets in ML, especially at big companies, due to ML research culture. Researchers from all the competing labs all hang out with each other and share all sorts of info about their work, as hackers would. https://
x.com/hardmaru/statu
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The Real Issue Isn’t AI Usage But The Action Itself
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The big deal isn’t that they’re using AI, because I don’t think you need AI for this, it’s the fact they’re doing this. Right?
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Poll: Majority of Americans Concerned About AI’s Threat to Humanity
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Poll: 61% of Americans say #AI threatens humanity’s future
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The Need for Effective Dialogue Between Governments and AI Companies
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We currently need more effective discussions between governments and artificial intelligence companies to mitigate expected risks #ArtificialIntelligence
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Engaging Policy-Makers and AI Companies in Dialogue
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We need more engaged conversations between policy-makers and AI companies #AI #policymakers
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Luddites Opposed Technology Deployment, Not Automation Itself
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Interestingly (and perhaps very relevantly) the Luddites were not, in fact, opposed to the use of automation at all. I suspect the same is true of these writers. It's more a question of how technology is deployed and who it benefits from it. https://
smithsonianmag.com/history/what-t
he-luddites-really-fought-against-264412/
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