The "effective altruism" and "effective accelerationism" ideologies that have been cropping up in AI debates are just a thin veneer over the typical blend of Silicon Valley techno-utopianism, inflated egos, and greed. Let's try something else.
Porcha Woodruff was getting her two children ready for school when police officers presented her with an arrest warrant alleging robbery and carjacking, court documents show.
Zoom Video Communications, Inc. recently updated its Terms of Service [https://explore.zoom.us/en/terms/] to encompass what some critics are calling a significant invasion of user privacy.
After a year of hype, the reality is emerging. Cloud clients aren’t buying generative AI tools because they’re expensive, lack accuracy, and it’s not clear what value they provide. Some analysts are already warning of a coming “trough of disillusionment.”
Facebook and TikTok manipulate the content they show you.
It’s reasonable to expect that #AI assistants sold by these or other tech companies will steer you to the products and services that make the most profit for the tech companies.
And users have no way of knowing whose interests are being favored, or how they are being data-mined.
This presentation by @timnitGebru, "Eugenics and the Promise of Utopia through AGI", is a concentrated braindump that illustrates the path from centuries of racism and oppression to today's techbro mythology of a technological utopia.
It's also a reminder that people who talk-up "AGI" have ugly ideologies and don't know jack about AI.
AI-generated books on Amazon now have the potential to kill people, as they've moved into the realm of mushroom foraging. Guides have popped up like, well, mushrooms, packed with information that makes no sense and could easily be dangerous, illustrated with structures that are "the mycological equivalent of a picture of a hot blond with six fingers and too many teeth," writes Vox's Constance Grady. Here's more.
"The #AI Incident Database is dedicated to indexing the collective history of harms or near harms realized in the real world by the deployment of artificial intelligence systems. Like similar databases in aviation and computer security, the AI Incident Database aims to learn from experience so we can prevent or mitigate bad outcomes."
Really loved this @iDPI_UMass conversation between @timnitGebru and @ethanz about #AI. In this clip, Dr. Gebru so clearly describes how corporations stand to benefit from the existential risk hype.
The lawyer realized after submitting the filing that chatGPT had generated fake cases, but didn't withdraw the filing and lied to the judge in a panic when questioned about it.
Issues of data protection and human dignity of generative AI processing and creations are an important one. My #GDPR complaint about OpenAI's data processing. It concerns input and output, access to information, and technology design.
Context/writeup: https://blog.lukaszolejnik.com/ai-llms-gdpr-complaint-and-human-dignity/
“…the hardest kinds of errors to spot. They couldn’t be harder for a human to detect if they were specifically designed to go undetected. The human in the loop isn’t just being asked to spot mistakes — they’re being actively deceived. The AI isn’t merely wrong, it’s constructing a subtle ‘what’s wrong with this picture’-style puzzle.”
Detroit woman sues city after being falsely arrested while pregnant due to facial recognition technology (www.nbcnews.com)
Porcha Woodruff was getting her two children ready for school when police officers presented her with an arrest warrant alleging robbery and carjacking, court documents show.
Zoom's Updated Terms of Service Permit Training AI on User Content Without Opt-Out - Lemdro.id (lemdro.id)
Zoom Video Communications, Inc. recently updated its Terms of Service [https://explore.zoom.us/en/terms/] to encompass what some critics are calling a significant invasion of user privacy.