There is almost no way the large cloud companies providing massive compute services AI surveillance & data processing APIs aren't implicated in the system of 'ad targeting for death' being used to facilitate mass murder in Gaza. This is a nightmare. And it's going to take
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Stanford AI+Policy Symposium Convenes Global Safety Institute Leaders
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Next week, @StanfordHAI & @StanfordCyber will convene leaders at global AI Safety Institutes & international organizations as well as researchers & policy leaders on the ground in the EU, BRICS, Africa, and beyond for the AI+Policy Symposium. Register now: https://t.co/9yyUQvoNKZ pic.twitter.com/CaQL39O9i0
— Stanford HAI (@StanfordHAI) 12 avril 2024Next week, @StanfordHAI & @StanfordCyber will convene leaders at global AI Safety Institutes & international organizations as well as researchers & policy leaders on the ground in the EU, BRICS, Africa, and beyond for the AI+Policy Symposium. Register now: https://
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Adobe faces data contamination criticism in AI training
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Gonna delete the thread (the point about data contamination is real but I don’t want to let Adobe off the hook) Thanks for your reporting!
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NYT lawsuit fair use argument against AI training
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The first four pages of the NYT lawsuit are worth reading – the legal argument rests on "fair use", and one of the factors in whether or not something is fair use is how much it competes with the content it has duplicated https://
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Microsoft Helps Japan Harness the Potential of AI
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[#Article] How Microsoft Wants to Help Japan Leverage the Potential of AI https://actuia.com/actualite/comment-microsoft-veut-aider-le-japon-a-tirer-parti-du-potentiel-de-lia/
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Email Policy Changes: User Communication Challenges
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Similarly I don't think "emailing our users to inform them about this policy change" is reasonable – I have accounts with well over 1,000 different services (according to my 1Password), the chance of me reading a policy email from any of them is pretty small!
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Account Access Loss and Digital Identity Management Challenges
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That assumes you can still login to your account – at this point I have plenty of accounts on services that I can no longer access – because they're associated with an old email address, for example
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Crafting Crisis Apologies for Controversial AI Policies
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An interesting exercise in imaginary crisis management is trying to compose an apology that can help regain the trust lost by the fact that this policy made it to the point of being announced in the first place
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Platform Trade-offs: Removing User Anonymity for Review Accountability
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Presumably the rational here is that they have millions of existing reviews which are a huge asset to their platform, and they don't want to remove them, but they also don't want them to stay anonymous And maybe they've decided that angering a subset of their users is worth it?
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AI Safety: Regulating Model Naming Practices
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AI safety demands the creation of a law that AI researchers should not be allowed to name their own models anymore. The only thing worse than a hostile AGI would be a hostile AGI called Phat Goose.