Ethan B. Holland

Over 57,200 manually organized AI links and counting

Photorealistic image of an AI robot sorting books in a vintage library. The robot, with a sleek, modern design, meticulously places books into two distinct piles labeled "Pre-2022" and "Post-2022". The library is filled with classic wooden bookshelves, warm, ambient lighting, and a large window through which a futuristic cityscape is visible, contrasting the traditional interior. The scene symbolizes the careful consideration of the impact of AI on the authenticity of information and the divide between content created by humans and AI.

Ethics/Legal/Security AI News: Week Ending 03/15/2024

March 15, 2024

“Now would be the time for archivists and librarians to begin separating out post-2022 written and visual work from what was produced before. As I saw once on Twitter, “this is the K-T boundary of information.” Anything afterwards is increasingly unlikely to be made by humans.” / X – https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1766581955905089747

“The true threat of AI generated content is not that it will convince us to believe things that aren’t true, it’s that we won’t believe anything unless it reinforces what we already think is true, or we’ll just disengage completely because the truth seems impossible to find.” / X – https://twitter.com/EliotHiggins/status/1767162572912873789

AI Poses Extinction-Level Risk, State-Funded Report Says | TIME – https://time.com/6898967/ai-extinction-national-security-risks-report/

“We are seeing the beginnings of a massive problem we will have with AI or suspected AI generated photos. The fact that they throw the veracity and reality of EVERYTHING into question, whether real or not.” / X – https://twitter.com/histoftech/status/1766959370426823068

“No comment from Kensington Palace tonight after at least 3 international pictures agencies refuse to distribute this morning’s photo of Kate and her children. Some of them (@AP ) have claimed “the source [the palace] has manipulated the image”. https://twitter.com/chrisshipitv/status/1766944328847364201

Pinterest’s new body type ranges deliver better and more inclusive search results | Pinterest Newsroom – Body type ranges are part of a broader effort to develop AI-powered technology that is additive rather than addictive. The tool is powered by Pinterest’s patent-pending innovation, body type technology, which uses shape, size and form to identify various body types in over 3.5 billion images on the platform. https://newsroom.pinterest.com/news/pinterests-new-body-type-ranges-deliver-better-more-inclusive-search-results/

“Peer review isn’t built to handle the flood of AI content, especially as not all of it will be obvious, and not all will be malicious (lots of scholars pay editors to help make their writing better, now they will use chat). The system, already straining, won’t be able to adjust.” / X – https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1768526138614186026

“11% of the best pieces of journalism from the last year used AI in some way. This is evidence of the power of AI as tool or co-intelligence – boosting the work of even great humans. Uses are likely boring, like transcription, which is the point. It does stuff you don’t want to. https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1767405132587970940

“How can a social media company swing elections? We already know the answer as @jengolbeck pointed out: a 2012 study found Facebook banner ads reminding people to vote generated “340,000 additional votes” Companies don’t need to show the ads to everyone… https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1767919708416733684

“I don’t think people are appreciating what capabilities are possible when AI can reason over an entire video (or live video feed). I gave Gemini 1.5 a video of traffic and asked it to identify dangerous situations, and to guess the year of the video, and got accurate answers. https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1767989398245879846

Five of this year’s Pulitzer finalists are AI-powered | Nieman Journalism Lab – https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/03/five-of-this-years-pulitzer-finalists-are-ai-powered/

Midjourney bans all Stability AI employees over alleged data scraping – The Verge – https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/11/24097495/midjourney-bans-stability-ai-employees-data-theft-outage

Nvidia is sued by authors over AI use of copyrighted works | Reuters – https://www.reuters.com/technology/nvidia-is-sued-by-authors-over-ai-use-copyrighted-works-2024-03-10/

Italy opens probe into OpenAI’s new video tool Sora – https://techxplore.com/news/2024-03-italy-probe-openai-video-tool.html

Marilyn Monroe AI Chatbot Has ‘Realistic Emotions’ and Expressions – https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/marilyn-monroe-generative-ai-chatbot-personalized-emotions-1235935086/

World’s first major act to regulate AI passed by European lawmakers – https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/13/european-lawmakers-endorse-worlds-first-major-act-to-regulate-ai.html

Researchers create AI worms that can spread from one system to another | Ars Technica – https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/03/researchers-create-ai-worms-that-can-spread-from-one-system-to-another/

[2311.11855v1] Evil Geniuses: Delving into the Safety of LLM-based Agents – https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.11855v1

NIST staffers revolt against expected appointment of ‘effective altruist’ AI researcher to US AI Safety Institute | VentureBeat – https://venturebeat.com/ai/nist-staffers-revolt-against-potential-appointment-of-effective-altruist-ai-researcher-to-us-ai-safety-institute/
Artificial Intelligence Act: MEPs adopt landmark law | News | European Parliament – https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20240308IPR19015/artificial-intelligence-act-meps-adopt-landmark-law

Heads up! You’ve scrolled to the end of this category. There may have been just one or two links (above), so go back up and double check to be sure you didn’t quickly scroll down past it.

Be Sure To Read This Week’s Main Post:

This week’s executive overview and top links are here:

AI News #24: Week Ending 03/15/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 36 Links

The post you just read is an deep dive extension of my weekly newsletter, This Week In AI, an executive summary of the top things to know in AI. Each week, I create an accessible overview for laypeople to feel confident they are conversant with the week’s AI developments. I include a curated list of must-click links of the week, to offer everyone a hands-on opportunity to explore the most intriguing updates in artificial intelligence across various categories, including robotics, imagery, video, AR/VR, science, ethics, and more. Beyond the overview, I post these topic-based deeper dives (below). If you haven’t read this week’s overview, I recommend starting there.

Credits/Sources

Most of these weekly links come from just a few prolific oversharing sources. Please follow them, as they work hard to find the news each week and they make it a lot easier for me to compile.