Friday, February 02, 2024

If politician A claims that all of politician B’s ads are AI generated will the FCC pull all the ads?

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/02/fcc-to-declare-ai-generated-voices-in-robocalls-illegal-under-existing-law/

FCC to declare AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal under existing law

The Federal Communications Commission plans to vote on making the use of AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal. The FCC said that AI-generated voices in robocalls have "escalated during the last few years" and have "the potential to confuse consumers with misinformation by imitating the voices of celebrities, political candidates, and close family members."





Always readable.

https://teachprivacy.com/artificial-intelligence-and-privacy/

Artificial Intelligence and Privacy

This Article aims to establish a foundational understanding of the intersection between artificial intelligence (AI) and privacy, outlining the current problems AI poses to privacy and suggesting potential directions for the law’s evolution in this area. Thus far, few commentators have explored the overall landscape of how AI and privacy interrelate. This Article seeks to map this territory.

Some commentators question whether privacy law is appropriate for addressing AI. In this Article, I contend that although existing privacy law falls far short of addressing the privacy problems with AI, privacy law properly conceptualized and constituted would go a long way toward addressing them.

Privacy problems emerge with AI’s inputs and outputs. These privacy problems are often not new; they are variations of longstanding privacy problems. But AI remixes existing privacy problems in complex and unique ways. Some problems are blended together in ways that challenge existing regulatory frameworks. In many instances, AI exacerbates existing problems, often threatening to take them to unprecedented levels.

Overall, AI is not an unexpected upheaval for privacy; it is, in many ways, the future that has long been predicted. But AI glaringly exposes the longstanding shortcomings, infirmities, and wrong approaches of existing privacy laws.

Ultimately, whether through patches to old laws or as part of new laws, many issues must be addressed to address the privacy problems that AI is affecting. In this Article, I provide a roadmap to the key issues that the law must tackle and guidance about the approaches that can work and those that will fail.

You can download my article for free on SSRN here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4713111





Perspective.

https://www.insideprivacy.com/united-states/trends-in-ai-u-s-state-legislative-developments/

Trends in AI: U.S. State Legislative Developments

U.S. policymakers have continued to express interest in legislation to regulate artificial intelligence (“AI”), particularly at the state level. Although comprehensive AI bills and frameworks in Congress have received substantial attention, state legislatures also have been moving forward with their own efforts to regulate AI. This blog post summarizes key themes in state AI bills introduced in the past year. Now that new state legislative sessions have commenced, we expect to see even more activity in the months ahead.





Could be amusing…

https://www.bespacific.com/a-search-engine-that-finds-you-weird-old-books/

A Search Engine That Finds You Weird Old Books

Clive Thompson:(tl;dr — if you want to skip this essay and just try out my search tool, it’s here,) Last fall, I wrote about the concept of “rewilding your attention — why it’s good to step away from the algorithmic feeds of big social media and find stranger stuff in nooks of the Internet. I followed it up with a post about “9 Ways to Rewild Your Attention” — various strategies I’d developed to hunt down unexpected material. One of those strategies? “Reading super-old books online.” As I noted, I often find it fun to poke around in books from the 1800s and 1700s, using Google Books or Archive.org…

Any book published in the U.S. before 1925 is in the public domain, so you can do amazingly fun book-browsing online. I’ll go to Archive.org or Google Books and pump in a search phrase, then see what comes up. (In Google Books, sort the results by date — pick a range that ends in 1924 — and by “full view,” and you’ll get public-domain books that are free to read entirely.) I cannot recommend this more highly. The amount of fascinating stuff you can encounter in old books and magazines is delightful.

I still do this! Old books are socially and culturally fascinating; they give you a glimpse into how much society has changed, and also what’s remained the same. The writing styles can be delightfully archaic, but also sometimes amazingly fresh. Nonfiction writers from 1780 can be colloquial and funny as hell…”



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