EFF (unofficial) May 8, 2024 5:15pm What Can Go Wrong When Police Use AI to Write Reports? #artificialintelligencemachinelearning #streetlevelsurveillance #electronicfrontierfoundation #eff #digitalrights #digitalprivacy posted by pod_feeder_v2 What Can Go Wrong When Police Use AI to Write Reports? Axon—the makers of widely-used police body cameras and tasers (and that also keeps trying to arm drones)—has a new product: AI that will write police reports for officers. Draft One is a generative large language model machine learning system that...
EFF (unofficial) March 20, 2024 3:30pm The Tech Apocalypse Panic is Driven by AI Boosters, Military Tacticians, and Movies #artificialintelligencemachinelearning #electronicfrontierfoundation #eff #digitalrights #digitalprivacy posted by pod_feeder_v2 The Tech Apocalypse Panic is Driven by AI Boosters, Military Tacticians, and Movies There has been a tremendous amount of hand wringing and nervousness about how so-called artificial intelligence might end up destroying the world. The fretting has only gotten worse as a result of a U.S. State Department-commissioned report on the...
EFF (unofficial) February 1, 2024 12:45am Worried About AI Voice Clone Scams? Create a Family Password #artificialintelligencemachinelearning #security #electronicfrontierfoundation #eff #digitalrights #digitalprivacy posted by pod_feeder_v2 Worried About AI Voice Clone Scams? Create a Family Password Your grandfather receives a call late at night from a person pretending to be you. The caller says that you are in jail or have been kidnapped and that they need money urgently to get you out of trouble. Perhaps they then bring on a fake police...
EFF (unofficial) January 19, 2024 11:30pm The No AI Fraud Act Creates Way More Problems Than It Solves #nodowntimeforfreespeech #artificialintelligencemachinelearning #electronicfrontierfoundation #eff #digitalrights #digitalprivacy posted by pod_feeder_v2 The No AI Fraud Act Creates Way More Problems Than It Solves Creators have reason to be wary of the generative AI future. For one thing, while GenAI can be a valuable tool for creativity, it may also be used to deceive the public and disrupt existing markets for creative labor. Performers, in particular,...
EFF (unofficial) January 5, 2024 7:15pm AI Watermarking Won't Curb Disinformation #artificialintelligencemachinelearning #electronicfrontierfoundation #eff #digitalrights #digitalprivacy posted by pod_feeder_v2 AI Watermarking Won't Curb Disinformation Generative AI allows people to produce piles upon piles of images and words very quickly. It would be nice if there were some way to reliably distinguish AI-generated content from human-generated content. It would help people avoid endlessly...
EFF (unofficial) December 16, 2023 3:45am No Robots(.txt): How to Ask ChatGPT and Google Bard to Not Use Your Website for Training #artificialintelligencemachinelearning #securityeducation #electronicfrontierfoundation #eff #digitalrights #digitalprivacy posted by pod_feeder_v2 No Robots(.txt): How to Ask ChatGPT and Google Bard to Not Use Your Website for Training Both OpenAI and Google have released guidance for website owners who do not want the two companies using the content of their sites to train the company's large language models (LLMs). We've long been supporters of the right to scrape websites—the...
EFF (unofficial) November 16, 2023 8:30pm To Best Serve Students, Schools Shouldn’t Try to Block Generative AI, or Use Faulty AI Detection Tools #studentprivacy #artificialintelligencemachinelearning #electronicfrontierfoundation #eff #digitalrights #digitalprivacy posted by pod_feeder_v2 To Best Serve Students, Schools Shouldn’t Try to Block Generative AI, or Use Faulty AI Detection Tools Generative AI gained widespread attention earlier this year, but one group has had to reckon with it more quickly than most: educators. Teachers and school administrators have struggled with two big questions: should the use of generative AI be...
EFF (unofficial) October 31, 2023 10:15pm EFF to Copyright Office: Copyright Is Indeed a Hammer, But Don’t Be Too Hasty to Nail Generative AI #fairuse #artificialintelligencemachinelearning #electronicfrontierfoundation #eff #digitalrights #digitalprivacy posted by pod_feeder_v2 EFF to Copyright Office: Copyright Is Indeed a Hammer, But Don’t Be Too Hasty to Nail Generative AI Generative AI has sparked a great deal of hype, fear, and speculation. Courts are just beginning to analyze how traditional copyright laws apply to the creation and use of these technologies. Into this breach has stepped the United States...
EFF (unofficial) July 18, 2023 7:00pm A Broad Federal Publicity Right Is a Risky Answer to Generative AI Problems #commentary #creativityinnovation #rightofpublicity #artificialintelligencemachinelearning #electronicfrontierfoundation #eff #digitalrights #digitalprivacy posted by pod_feeder_v2 A Broad Federal Publicity Right Is a Risky Answer to Generative AI Problems As users continue to experiment with generative AI tools, artists are increasingly concerned that use of the tools to mimic their respective “styles” will put them out of business. In addition to the now-infamous AI-generated song that seemed to...
EFF (unofficial) July 7, 2023 12:15pm Generative AI Policy Must Be Precise, Careful, and Practical: How to Cut Through the Hype and Spot Potential Risks in New Legislation #artificialintelligencemachinelearning #electronicfrontierfoundation #eff #digitalrights #digitalprivacy posted by pod_feeder_v2 Generative AI Policy Must Be Precise, Careful, and Practical: How to Cut Through the Hype and Spot Potential Risks in New Legislation Anxiety about generative AI is growing almost as fast as the use of the technology itself. Some of these concerns are reasonable, and some are fueled primarily by dramatic rhetoric from prominent figures in tech, entertainment, and national...
EFF (unofficial) October 7, 2021 5:00pm Face Recognition Isn’t Just Face Identification and Verification: It’s Also Photo Clustering, Race Analysis, Real-time Tracking, and More #facesurveillance #privacy #artificialintelligencemachinelearning #streetlevelsurveillance #electronicfrontierfoundation #eff #digitalrights #digitalprivacy posted by pod_feeder_v2 Face Recognition Isn’t Just Face Identification and Verification: It’s Also Photo Clustering, Race Analysis, Real-time Tracking, and More Governments and corporations are tracking how we go about our lives with a unique marker that most of us cannot hide or change: our own faces. Across the country, communities are pushing back with laws that restrain this dangerous technology. In...