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Employer Email Access Privacy Concerns Upon Employee Departure

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11 August 2023 19h10

also: i know that a persons's work emails aren't technically theirs…but it still feels really weird to me that bosses often get their employers' inboxes when they leave the gig. i get it but also…feels…kinda invasive!

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HELM: Stanford’s Benchmarking Framework for Language Model Transparency

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11 August 2023 19h03

Transparency is crucial for policymakers, researchers, and the public to better understand AI's impact to society. @StanfordCRFM scholars introduced HELM – a benchmarking framework for language models.

Legal Data Pipelines Enable AI Projects to Survive Criticism

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11 August 2023 18h12

If there is such a plausible data pipeline that makes it legal, then it'd be easy to keep the project online in the face of criticism.

AI Advocates’ Blind Support Fuels Copyright Infringement Concerns

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11 August 2023 18h07

The outrage is made worse by the fact pro-AI droids don't understand what's going on and blindly will encourage infringement for all its applications… (Including top personalities in the space.)

IP Rights and Content Moderation in Digital Age

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11 August 2023 18h05

There is value in calling out infringement and using of people's IP / identity without consent or compensation. Twitter does make things snowball quickly, which is indeed a problem. It was still right to take it down even if it wasn't Terminator-level threat.

Respecting Creator Rights and Ethical AI Business Practices

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11 August 2023 18h00

Do you believe it's beneficial for Benji's business to respect the wishes of writers and the community at large? Do you believe Benji himself when he says he never wanted to be involved in this kind of practice? If so, you should respect and support his decision too…

Fair Use Unlawful Works: Legal Implications for AI Training

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11 August 2023 17h58

That said, it appears there is case law that relates to Fair Use *not* being granted for unlawfully accepted works — and that's the standard internationally. You don't get Fair Use for unlawfully acquired works, so there may well be multiple infringements there.

Fair Use and LLM Training: Ethical and Legal Concerns

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11 August 2023 17h57

All bullying and abuse sucks, including also the disrespecting the rights of authors that caused them to lash out in the first place. Are you in favour of "Fair Use" being used as a justification for training LLMs trained on pirated eBooks?