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A flood of misinformation shapes views of Israel-Gaza conflict
A WhatsApp voice memo purporting to have insider information ricocheted across hundreds of group chats in Israel early on Monday. The Israeli army was planning for another “battle like we’ve never experienced before,” the anonymous woman said in Hebrew, warning that people should prepare to lose access to food, water and internet service for a week.
Across the country, Israelis raced to the banks and to the grocery stores, anticipating another attack. But the message, the army clarified hours later on X, turned out to be a falsehood.
One week into the war between Israel and Gaza, social media is inducing a fog of war surpassing previous clashes in the region — one that’s shaping how panicked citizens and a global public view the conflict.
(Related) Perhaps there was insufficient data in the AI’s library to match the photo?
https://www.404media.co/ai-images-detectors-are-being-used-to-discredit-the-real-horrors-of-war/
AI Images Detectors Are Being Used to Discredit the Real Horrors of War
A free AI image detector that's been covered in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal is currently identifying a photograph of what Israel says is a burnt corpse of a baby killed in Hamas’s recent attack on Israel as being generated by AI.
However, the image does not show any signs it was created by AI, according to Hany Farid, a professor at UC Berkeley and one of the world’s leading experts on digitally manipulated images.
Perspective.
https://www.zbw.eu/econis-archiv/handle/11159/605045
Disrupting Creativity: Copyright Law in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence
Very recently, due largely to breakthroughs in deep learning technologies, AI has begun stepping into the shoes of human content generators and making valuable creative works at scale. Before the end of the decade, a significant amount of art, literature, music, software, and web content will likely be created by AI rather than traditional human authors. Yet the law, as it has so often historically, lags this technological evolution by prohibiting copyright protection for AI-generated works. The predominant narrative holds that even if AI can automate creativity, that this activity is not the right sort of thing to protect, and that protection could even harm human artists. AI-generated works challenge beliefs about human exceptionalism and the normative foundations of copyright law, which until now have offered something for everyone. Copyright can be about ethics and authors and protecting the sweat of a brow and personality rights. Copyright can also be about the public interest and offering incentives to create and disseminate content. But copyright cannot have it all with AI authors—there is valuable output being generated, but by authors with no interests to protect. This Article argues that American copyright law is, and has been traditionally, primarily about benefiting the public interest rather than benefiting authors directly. As a result, AI-generated works are precisely the sort of thing the system was designed to protect. Protection will encourage people to develop and use creative AI which will result in the production and dissemination of new works. Taken further, attributing authorship to AI when an AI has functionally done the work of a traditional author will promote transparency, efficient allocations of rights, and even counterintuitively protect human authors. AI-generated works also promise to radically impact other fundamental tenets of copyright law such as infringement, protection of style, and fair use. How the law should respond to AI activity has lessons more broadly for thinking about what rules should apply to people, machines, and other sorts of artificial authors.
Perspective.
Robots, AI, and the future of labor: An economic opportunity ‘way bigger than the steam engine’
The global conversation about robots and the workforce has shifted substantially in recent years, from widespread concerns about robots taking jobs to growing questions about how quickly they can fill gaps in the labor market.
One of the ventures at the forefront of this quest is Sanctuary AI. It’s a Vancouver, B.C.-based company that has raised more than $100 million Canadian dollars to pursue its vision for labor as a service. Sanctuary makes a 5-foot, 7-inch general-purpose humanoid robot called Phoenix, powered by an AI system called Carbon.
Perspective. Granted, AI will be faster than humans to see patterns in data. AI will likely find all the patterns in the data. Who selects the data?
The Domino Effect: How AI Will Soon Outsmart Us All
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a civilization-altering technology that is already changing our world in profound ways.
… One thing capitalism is good at is making things better. We merely have to look back to our history of various technologies to see proof of how we improve them—rockets, televisions, video games, laptop computers, phones, etc. There is a powerful, profit-based incentive within our capitalist system to overcome any technical hurdles that stifle technological innovation and evolution. Since there are profits to be made, it's 100 percent guaranteed that capitalism will make AI much better than it is now. Importantly, "better" does not necessarily mean "good."
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