Rene Descartes is inspecting a Polaroid picture. To the left side of him is a bucket of ice. On the right is a pail of water. At the bottom of the Polaroid the word “Ethics” is written in Sharpie.
AI caused Amazon Alexa election error on Trump, Harris answers – The Washington Post
NaNoWriMo Organizers Said It Was Classist and Ableist to Condemn AI. All Hell Broke Loose | WIRED
NaNoWriMo is in disarray after organizers defend AI writing tools – The Verge
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AI’s impact on elections is being overblown | MIT Technology Review
Clearview AI hit with its largest GDPR fine yet as Dutch regulator considers holding execs personally liable | TechCrunch
“Right now 3 out of 4 replies to this tweet are LLM-generated (#1, #3, #4). Long-term this is an existential threat for the web.
Is AI eating all the energy? Part 1/2 / GioCities
Telegram Founder Pavel Durov Defends App in First Comments Since Arrest – The New York Times
“We get a lot of questions about the nature of AI’s environmental impacts… So my amazing colleagues @mmitchell_ai and @TrevelinBruna wrote a handy primer to explain them!
Overview ‹ AI-Implanted False Memories — MIT Media Lab
“🚨🇺🇸HUGE LOSS FOR PUBLIC LIBRARIES: COURT RULES AGAINST INTERNET ARCHIVE | 500K BOOKS REMOVED A court has ruled that the Internet Archive, a key resource used by public libraries to lend books digitally, can no longer lend over 500,000 books like “The Catcher in the Rye” and “To” / X
US, Britain and Brussels to sign agreement on AI standards
Self-learning AI reveals NFL against the spread, over-under, money-line picks for each 2024 Week 1 game – CBSSports.com
Venezuela’s Newest News Agency Says AI Anchors Protect Reporters Amid Government Crackdown
Police officers are starting to use AI chatbots to write crime reports. Will they hold up in court?
The US Needs Deepfake Porn Laws. These States Are Leading the Way | WIRED
YouTube is making tools to detect face and voice deepfakes
OpenAI searches for an answer to its copyright problems – The Verge
“When it comes to the internet—telecos + big tech own all the pipes, but Starlink owns all of space 🛰️
YouTube is making new tools to protect creators from AI copycats – The Verge
NO FAKES – A Dream for Lawyers, a Nightmare for Everyone Else | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Republican voters less confident than Democrats in spotting AI deepfakes, poll shows | US politics | The Guardian
AI-Fakes Detection Is Failing Voters in the Global South | WIRED
A.I. Can Now Create Lifelike Videos. Can You Tell What’s Real? – The New York Times
Vitalik Buterin says AI prediction markets can make X Community Notes faster
With Robots.txt, Websites Halt AI Companies’ Web Crawlers – IEEE Spectrum
A New Group Is Trying to Make AI Data Licensing Ethical | WIRED
YouTube is developing AI detection tools for music and faces, plus creator controls for AI training | TechCrunch
A Post-Google World – BIG by Matt Stoller
Mapping the misuse of generative AI – Google DeepMind
South Korea summit to target ‘blueprint’ for using AI in the military | Reuters
“NEWS: Elon’s progress in building out xAI’s 100k GPU cluster has some rival model developers worried. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, for instance, has told some Microsoft executives that he is concerned that xAI could soon have more access to computing power than OpenAI does.
The Checklist: What Succeeding at AI Safety Will Involve – Sam Bowman
North Carolina Man Charged With Using AI to Win Music Royalties – The New York Times
Philippines’ Call Centers Navigate AI Impact on Jobs – Bloomberg
US, EU and UK sign world’s first international AI treaty
“In a new Weekend Essay, Ted Chiang argues that artificial intelligence can’t make real art.
“BREAKING: Nvidia has been subpoenaed by the US Justice Department in an escalation of the agency’s antitrust investigation
Leveraging AI for efficient incident response – Engineering at Meta
“Generally baffled by how astonishingly uncurious many scientists are. They accept the shallowest possible “it’s just” and go about their day in blithe ignorance.” / X
“Your data, even data from tens of thousands of amateur novelists, doesn’t really move the needle on training AI anymore. The scale & quality are not enough to matter. It is why companies like Anthropic have moved away from training on user data at all.” / X
X permanently stops Grok AI from using EU citizens’ tweets after court action by Irish data watchdog | Irish Independent
“A thread about what is wrong with the influence of Elon Musk and other tech billionaires. Another thread about content moderation will follow later this week. Obviously, the problem isn’t that Musk is expressing his opinions, which is his freedom of speech. It isn’t that Musk has” / X
Opinion | Yuval Harari: A.I. Threatens Democracy – The New York Timeshttps://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/04/opinion/yuval-harari-ai-democracy.html
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