Announce user agent and IP addresses upfront. It's industry-standard for search engines to disclose their User Agent strings before starting operations, and also a list of IP addresses doing the crawling. LAION could have done this in a public manner upfront.
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LAION Dataset Compliance: Robots.txt Verification Ethics
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Check opt-out themselves! LAION relies on the fact that CommonCrawl allegedly checked opt-out, but the legal defense "our upstream provider is compliant so we don't need to be" isn't strong. Instead, LAION could have checked robots.txt themselves when creating the dataset.
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Software Tool Recommendations for Robots.txt Compliance Checking
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Recommend software that checks robots.txt. One of LAION's members built img2dataset, which does not check robots.txt. It would be a stronger legal argument if this recommended tool did check at least robots.txt now, even if better forms of opt-out are added later.
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LAION-5B Legal Compliance: Dataset Challenges and Solutions
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Legal uncertainty is all around the AI industry, in particular the LAION-5B dataset. Despite the RELAION update, there are still many problems to be addressed… (My peer review follows.) Here's what LAION could have done to make their dataset more legal and more certain!
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AI Act: First Official Meeting of European AI Committee
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[#Article] AI Act: First Official Meeting of the European Artificial Intelligence Committee
https://actuia.com/actualite/ai-act-premiere-reunion-officielle-du-comite-europeen-de-lintelligence-artificielle/
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Managing AI Risks in the Workplace for Employers
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Navigating AI Risks for Employers Employers, navigate the AI minefield. Address privacy and data security, AI bias, job displacement, and regulatory compliance. Develop strategies to manage AI effectively and ensure ethical and responsible AI use in your organization.
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EU Launches AI Factories to Strengthen Trustworthy AI Leadership
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[#Article] The European Union (EU) launches AI factories to strengthen its leadership in trustworthy AI https://actuia.com/actualite/lue-lance-les-usines-dia-pour-renforcer-son-leadership-dans-lia-digne-de-confiance/ … #AI #ArtificialIntelligence
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AI Governance Systems Must Be Transparent and Voter-Aligned
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Yes, that's right. This system must be 100% transparent and aligned with its voters. I don't have a ready-made solution, but I believe this will be far better than governance through people.
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AI Misuse Influences Taylor Swift’s Political Endorsement
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The biggest impact A.I. might have on an election might just be Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Kamala Harris. Ironically enough, it was not the use of AI but the misuse of it that prompted her move!
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AI Bureaucrats Could Replace Human Politicians Positively
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Yuval Noah Harari claims the world will be run by millions of AI bureaucrats in 10 years. He sees this as a negative development, but I believe it could be a positive one.
— Marek Rosa | European🇪🇺 | South African🇿🇦 (@marek_rosa) 11 septembre 2024
Why should we prefer human politicians and bureaucrats? They lack transparency, are often selfish and… pic.twitter.com/eDiBhN8DoiYuval Noah Harari claims the world will be run by millions of AI bureaucrats in 10 years. He sees this as a negative development, but I believe it could be a positive one. Why should we prefer human politicians and bureaucrats? They lack transparency, are often selfish and