I don’t mean to vilify anyone. Their words can stand for themselves. And if they want to retract they would have done so, wouldn’t they? #defundharvard
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Does Humanity Have Wisdom to Harness AI for Good?
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Does humanity have the wisdom to harness AI for good?
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First Published Article in The Atlantic About AI Technology Exports
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There's something really emotional about seeing my words published for the first time in the font of one of my favorite publications. And with that classic Atlantic headline. And an iconic illo. https://
theatlantic.com/technology/arc
hive/2023/10/technology-exports-ai-programs-regulations-china/675605/
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Harvard Leadership Criticized: Defund Movement Gains Momentum
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Thank you for your leadership here. But still I say #defundharvard
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ImageNet and Laion: Dataset Distribution and Research Access
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Finally, how do you feel about the position taken in this note? It refers to the Imagenet dataset, which, like Laion, was distributed publicly only as a list of IDs (but was available as images to researchers on request).
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Legal implications of curated image datasets in AI training
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And how about the "aesthetic" subsets? Are they likely to be treated differently because they're curated? (And they would have required accessing the image itself to do that curation.)
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Google vs LAION: Legal Differences in Image Storage Liability
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I'd love to better understand how Google, for instance, seems to be able to store and provide public links to images — but perhaps Laion can't? Are there some key differences that impact liability/legality?
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Cyberattacks surge against Israeli businesses and government
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Disruptive cyberattacks in Israel are growing, hitting business and government websites https://
wsj.com/articles/israe
li-cyber-companies-rally-as-digital-physical-assaults-continue-90b457f2?st=21oiuvdqqpq4okw
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Copyright implications of URL-based AI training datasets
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very interesting- thanks for sharing! One thing not mentioned in the post that I'm curious about is that datasets like laion-5b don't actually contain copyrighted data directly, but are just lists of URLs. How does that impact potential claims, if at all?
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OODAcon 2023: Expert speakers on AI, cybersecurity and policy
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Join us at OODAcon and hear from speakers like @kristindelrosso @RyanWesterdahl @BilyanaLilly @William_Blake @CryptoRegExpert @MattDevost and many others from the @ooda network. https://
oodaloop.com/oodacon-2023/