Judge: What’s the injury? Lieberman: “You’re leaving people open for massive copyright infringement without the ability to trace it…It’s like it causes the alarm system in your house to go down.”
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Copyright Management and Attribution Retraction in AI Outputs
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Lieberman: When copyright management information (CMI) is retracted, outputs will be "either the verbatim language or a summary without the attribution of the new york times or the daily news.”
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ChatGPT Copyright Trial: Sources Not Cited to Users
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The judge asked plaintiffs to show examples of harm. Steven Lieberman, a lawyer repping NY Daily News and NYT, gave examples of how ChatGPT won't cite the original source when user asks an LLM for info about an old Super bowl or a past presidential debate.
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AI as Tool Against Human Status Games and Cognitive Biases
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I have a philosophical view that AI content is net good by breaking the stupid status games being played here. Humanity's ultimate play against its own monkey brain.
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AI Flooding Social Media Could Paradoxically Protect Human Cognition
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> social media is poison to the human brain, pollutes status signaling mechanisms
> AI consumes all social media
> AI proceeds to poison social media with a flood of rubbish interfering with brain's status check mechanisms > social media unusable, saves human brain
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OpenAI Lawyer Clarifies GPT Training Data in NYT Copyright Case
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Judge just asked OpenAI's lawyer if GPT models have NYT content in its database. Lawyer said not doesn't, but then clarified it doesn’t have a database but instead relies on weights. I wonder how NYT's lawyers will respond to that.
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AI Privacy Dangers: Cybersecurity Perspective Primer
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This is an excellent primer on some of the privacy dangers posed by large scale AI, from a cybersecurity perspective. Written in clear language, it's the most accessible rundown I've seen yet on these topics. Thank you, @TedOnPrivacy
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Artificial Wombs: AI Solution to France’s Demographic Decline?
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L’effondrement démographique en France est AFFOLANT Nos pays vont disparaître Les Écologistes portent une immense responsabilité : en expliquant que la fin du monde arrive, ils découragent la jeunesse de faire des bébés L’UTÉRUS ARTIFICIEL s’imposera ! Vous êtes pour ?
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Meta Faces Scrutiny Over Piracy in AI Training Practice
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Lawyer comes up with a long list of excuses, buries the lede, then finally admits firing Meta. Maybe the company could be on the right side of a theoretical debate, but in practice them relying on piracy (known all along) makes it hard for Lemley to maintain his reputation.
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Is Entertainment Maximization the Likeliest Outcome?
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the most entertaining outcome is the most likely right?