Below are posts associated with the “AI” tag.
🔗 linkblog: Voice Actors Push Back Against Their Voices Being Used by AI'
Interesting and important read.
🔗 linkblog: 4chan users embrace AI voice clone tool to generate celebrity hatespeech - The Verge'
Why… why don’t we better anticipate better misuses like this? Are technological “progress” and market opportunities more important than these side effects?
🔗 linkblog: ChatGPT Is Passing the Tests Required for Medical Licenses and Business Degrees'
Headline overstates things a bit, and I’m on team “change the assessments,” but it’s still worth asking if AI developers are appropriately anticipating the disruptions these tools are causing.
🔗 linkblog: CNET Defends Use of AI Blogger After Embarrassing 163-Word Correction: ‘Humans Make Mistakes, Too’'
Here, as with autocorrect and citation managers, my personal opinion is that any human who knows enough to use the tool critically knows enough to do the job themself. Maybe slower, sure, but slower isn’t always bad.
🔗 linkblog: How ‘radioactive data’ could help reveal malicious AIs - The Verge'
Fascinating read on potential threats posed by AI—and potential solutions.
🔗 linkblog: Experts Warn ChatGPT Could Democratize Cybercrime - Infosecurity Magazine'
Well, this is terrifying.
🔗 linkblog: Thanks to AI, it’s probably time to take your photos off the Internet | Ars Technica'
Good thing engineers really anticipated and considered these consequences before developing this software, right?
🔗 linkblog: ChatGPT, Galactica, and the Progress Trap | WIRED'
A helpful and thoughtful critique of how people are doing AI text generation.
🔗 linkblog: Facebook Pulls Its New ‘AI For Science’ Because It’s Broken and Terrible'
Very interesting read.
🔗 linkblog: Students Are Using AI to Write Their Papers, Because Of Course They Are'
Really important story here, and glad to see George Veletsianos quoted. I’ve long been an advocate for developing assessments that are impossible to cheat at, but I don’t know if that’s the entire (or even a practical) response to GPT-3. We are continuing to develop technologies whose societal effects we are not prepares for.
🔗 linkblog: AI Is Probably Using Your Images and It's Not Easy to Opt Out'
Ooof. AI-generated art is fun, but it comes at a price, and we can’t afford to forget it.
🔗 linkblog: Too much trust in machine translation could have deadly consequences.'
This article provides good examples of how the efficacy and efficiency of a given technology is often less important than deeper questions of reliance and roles.
🔗 linkblog: The Tech We Won’t Build — The Internet Health Report 2022'
Compelling podcast episode from Mozilla highlighting morally dubious uses of AI. It’s really important that we be more reflective about this instead of trying things and seeing where they lead.