Mistral AI, Hugging Face and others are betting they can stand up to OpenAI and big tech firms by making their technology open source—but it could lead to more risk than reward, @bellelin_ reports.
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AI-Generated Election Misinformation: Rules Easily Manipulated
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It turns out rules designed to prevent fake election-related images are easy to manipulate. @StanfordHAI
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Ethical Data Deletion Prevents Identity-Based Persecution
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I'm sure there are cases where it can be tricky. But let's be real, many times it's not. It's just risky. As in: deleting data that could otherwise be used to mark people for death based on identity is, I f'ing hope, defined as 'ethical' by anyone w a functioning intellect/heart
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Legal implications of database access in computational era
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MAY THEIR MEMORY BE A BLESSING! About once a week I think about the terrorism charges they would have faced had they done what they did then, now, and accessed computational databases in the process.
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Ethical Data Sabotage: Privacy Through Non-Collection
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Great thread for those interested in why I'm a big fan of ethical sabotage in tech. Tl;dr — the best way to preserve privacy is not to collect data. The second best way is to destroy the data.
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EU AI Act: Navigate Compliance Requirements for Organizations
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The EU AI Act establishes the new regulatory standard for AI, transforming how organizations globally build, operate, govern and apply AI. Join our team of experts at an upcoming webinar to help navigate a complex landscape of new compliance requirements and remain ahead of
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Neuralink Privacy Concerns: AI and Thought Surveillance Society
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It’s a given that once Neuralink becomes pervasive our thoughts will be considered “open” content, where we’ll be demonized for wanting to have some form of privacy or agency, correct? That’s the societal precedent being set now with GenAI. How boring, predictable, and deadly.
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Non-Western AI Perspectives: Access, Isolation, and AGI Narratives
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You’re missing non-Western perspectives and motivations. You’re missing voices from the billions of people who can’t access the Internet let alone GenAI. You’re increasing social isolation during a pandemic of loneliness sowing constant ideology that AGI is inevitable. Why?
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AI Products: Adtech Classifiers and Facial Recognition Systems
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Since, then I’ve written about entirely new products built using AI, from adtech classifiers used to target individuals, to facial recognition systems built by scraping faces from around the world:
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EU Demands AI Compliance Changes from Tech Company
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Yeah and the EU told them this doesn’t fly… they will have to do more changes to comply.