Now that it's been accepted to ACM FAccT'24, I've updated the preprint of my paper on why artists are right that AI art is a kind of theft. I hope this promotes more serious thought about the visions of generative AI developers and the impacts of these technologies.
Happy to share that my paper on why AI art is theft has been accepted to the 2024 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency! See you in Rio in June 😃
Preprint here (revisions soon):
philpapers.org/rec/GOEAAI-2
arxiv.org/abs/2401.06178
The terrible human toll in Gaza has many causes.
A chilling investigation by +972 highlights efficiency:
An engineer: “When a 3-year-old girl is killed in a home in Gaza, it’s because someone in the army decided it wasn’t a big deal for her to be killed.”
An AI outputs "100 targets a day". Like a factory with murder delivery:
"According to the investigation, another reason for the large number of targets, and the extensive harm to civilian life in Gaza, is the widespread use of a system called “Habsora” (“The Gospel”), which is largely built on artificial intelligence and can “generate” targets almost automatically at a rate that far exceeds what was previously possible. This AI system, as described by a former intelligence officer, essentially facilitates a “mass assassination factory.”"
"The third is “power targets,” which includes high-rises and residential towers in the heart of cities, and public buildings such as universities, banks, and government offices."
Had a lovely time at the (Dis)Trust and AI conference hosted by the Rotman Institute of Philosophy at Western University. Many excellent conversations about how to make sense of the presence of these technologies in our lives and ideas for how we can rein in the tech giants' largely unrestrained disruption of our social systems. I think some kind of record of the event will be available eventually: https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/distrust-and-ai-perspectives-from-across-disciplines-and-sectors/
First round of ethics lessons with the first-year engineers this week! Grateful to the Democratic Knowledge Project at Harvard for creating these engaging values cards—I'm using them to prompt discussion of how values apply to generative artificial intelligence.
"Described as #hallucination, confabulation or just plain making things up, it’s now a problem for [anyone using] #generativeAI system[s]
“I don’t think that there’s any model today that doesn’t suffer from some hallucination,” said Daniela Amodei, co-founder and president of #Anthropic#AI
#Tech experts are starting to doubt that #ChatGPT and A.I. 'hallucinations' will ever go away: 'This isn’t fixable'"