Encouraging use to increase Ad views?
The Washington Post's AI bot answers your questions now - no subscription required
… Last week, The Washington Post debuted an experimental generative AI tool called "Ask The Post AI," which allows users to get conversational answers on any topic referenced in text news articles published by the newspaper since 2016. The publication refers to the tools as an initiative "built by news for news."
Fake subpoenas from fake cops?
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/11/fbi-spike-in-hacked-police-emails-fake-subpoenas/
FBI: Spike in Hacked Police Emails, Fake Subpoenas
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is urging police departments and governments worldwide to beef up security around their email systems, citing a recent increase in cybercriminal services that use hacked police email accounts to send unauthorized subpoenas and customer data requests to U.S.-based technology companies.
In an alert (PDF) published this week, the FBI said it has seen un uptick in postings on criminal forums regarding the process of emergency data requests (EDRs) and the sale of email credentials stolen from police departments and government agencies.
Real fakes?
https://ijlsi.com/wp-content/uploads/The-Ethics-of-Deepfakes-A-Digital-Age-Crisis.pdf
The Ethics of Deepfakes: A Digital Age Crisis
Deepfake Technology has earned great attention because of its capability to deceive, manipulate and fabricate certain content like images, audio, video and much more. The term “deepfake” is a bifurcation of “deep learning”, a subset of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and “fake” which denotes the synthetic or unreal nature of the content. With the use of this technology, audio and video media can be altered to give the impression that someone has said or done something they haven’t. This technology is flourishing on social media which is harming children, women and other vulnerable users. This research explores the role of deepfake technology in propagating misinformation or false information throughout the web along with its potential results on public and social cohesion. Legal frameworks have also been discussed in this research on how recent legislation responds to this manipulation. This research also argues that the impact of deep fakes on society is extreme and versatile, necessitating a coordinated response from governments, tech companies, and civil society. By shedding light on these critical aspects, this research aims to contribute to a better understanding of the impact of deepfake technology on social media and to inform future efforts in detection, prevention, and policy development.
How it’s used isn’t harmful?
OpenAI defeats news outlets' copyright lawsuit over AI training, for now
A New York federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit against artificial intelligence giant OpenAI that claimed it misused articles from news outlets Raw Story and AlterNet to train its large language models.
U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon said that the outlets could not show enough harm to support the lawsuit but allowed them to file a new complaint, even though she said she was "skeptical" that they could "allege a cognizable injury."
Perspective.
https://theconversation.com/is-ai-dominance-inevitable-a-technology-ethicist-says-no-actually-240088
Is AI dominance inevitable? A technology ethicist says no, actually
Anyone following the rhetoric around artificial intelligence in recent years has heard one version or another of the claim that AI is inevitable. Common themes are that AI is already here, it is indispensable, and people who are bearish on it harm themselves.
In the business world, AI advocates tell companies and workers that they will fall behind if they fail to integrate generative AI into their operations. In the sciences, AI advocates promise that AI will aid in curing hitherto intractable diseases.
In higher education, AI promoters admonish teachers that students must learn how to use AI or risk becoming uncompetitive when the time comes to find a job.
And, in national security, AI’s champions say that either the nation invests heavily in AI weaponry, or it will be at a disadvantage vis-à-vis the Chinese and the Russians, who are already doing so.
The argument across these different domains is essentially the same: The time for AI skepticism has come and gone. The technology will shape the future, whether you like it or not. You have the choice to learn how to use it or be left out of that future. Anyone trying to stand in the technology’s way is as hopeless as the manual weavers who resisted the mechanical looms in the early 19th century.
In the past few years, my colleagues and I at UMass Boston’s Applied Ethics Center have been studying the ethical questions raised by the widespread adoption of AI, and I believe the inevitability argument is misleading.
No good deed goes unpunished.
Police Freak Out at iPhones Mysteriously Rebooting Themselves, Locking Cops Out
Law enforcement officers are warning other officials and forensic experts that iPhones which have been stored securely for forensic examination are somehow rebooting themselves, returning the devices to a state that makes them much harder to unlock, according to a law enforcement document obtained by 404 Media.
The exact reason for the reboots is unclear, but the document authors, who appear to be law enforcement officials in Detroit, Michigan, hypothesize that Apple may have introduced a new security feature in iOS 18 that tells nearby iPhones to reboot if they have been disconnected from a cellular network for some time. After being rebooted, iPhones are generally more secure against tools that aim to crack the password of and take data from the phone.
The loss of ‘things everyone knows.’
https://www.bespacific.com/how-the-death-of-cursive-is-complicating-our-elections/
How the death of cursive is complicating our elections
Fast Company: “The death of cursive has become a problem for voters and election officials. Young people who vote by mail and were never taught cursive risk having their ballots tossed if the signature they sign on their mail-in ballot envelope doesn’t match the signature on file, which the state uses to verify their identity. That’s what happened in Nevada to some 28,000 voters on Election Day this past Tuesday. The voters have until November 12 to “signature cure” their ballots, or verify it’s their signature signed on the envelope. As Nevada Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar told The Washington Post, “more Nevadans than ever sign their names on digital screens that may look different than their pen-to-paper signatures,” especially young people who “may not have a set signature developed yet.” Cursive has been falling out of fashion for a while now, and it’s had a range of cultural implications. It’s prompted the federal government to seek volunteers who can transcribe historical documents written in cursive before it becomes as indecipherable to the average American as hieroglyphics Cursive’s declining popularity has also prompted rebrands. Eddie Bauer retired its script logo, while in Maryland, Washington College changed its logo, which used George Washington’s signature, saying it “was difficult to read and not immediately recognizable for many prospective students,” and blaming the fact that cursive is no longer being taught universally in K-12 education. Nevada is one of 33 states plus the District of Columbia that lets voters know if their absentee or mail-in ballot has problems and allows them to “cure” them within a window of time after Election Day, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Still, more than 560,000 total ballots were rejected—typically due to minor errors—across the U.S. in the 2020 election. That’s about 1% of the vote…”
It never hurts to reconsider your security.
https://thehackernews.com/2024/11/a-hackers-guide-to-password-cracking.html
A Hacker's Guide to Password Cracking
Defending your organization's security is like fortifying a castle—you need to understand where attackers will strike and how they'll try to breach your walls. And hackers are always searching for weaknesses, whether it's a lax password policy or a forgotten backdoor. To build a stronger defense, you must think like a hacker and anticipate their moves. Read on to learn more about hackers' strategies to crack passwords, the vulnerabilities they exploit, and how you can reinforce your defenses to keep them at bay.
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https://www.makeuseof.com/quick-test-see-unique-browser-fingerprint/
Use This Quick Test to See How Unique Your Browser Fingerprint Is
… Each browser has a level of uniqueness, which is where Am I Unique comes into play. This handy browser fingerprint detection website quickly details how unique your browser is and assigns you a score. All you have to do is press See My Fingerprint and let Am I Unique check out your browser configuration.
Perspective.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/11/ai-criminal-justice-trend-attorneys-need-know-about
AI in Criminal Justice Is the Trend Attorneys Need to Know About
The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into our criminal justice system is one of the most worrying developments across policing and the courts, and EFF has been tracking it for years. EFF recently contributed a chapter on AI’s use by law enforcement to the American Bar Association’s annual publication, The State of Criminal Justice 2024.
The chapter describes some of the AI-enabled technologies being used by law enforcement, including some of the tools we feature in our Street-Level Surveillance hub, and discusses the threats AI poses to due process, privacy, and other civil liberties.
Tools & Techniques.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-best-open-source-ai-models-all-your-free-to-use-options-explained/
The best open-source AI models: All your free-to-use options explained
Here are the best open-source and free-to-use AI models for text, images, and audio, organized by type, application, and licensing considerations.
Perspective.
https://fpf.org/blog/u-s-legislative-trends-in-ai-generated-content-2024-and-beyond/
U.S. Legislative Trends in AI-Generated Content: 2024 and Beyond
… Generative AI is a powerful tool, both in elections and more generally in people’s personal, professional, and social lives. In response, policymakers across the U.S. are exploring ways to mitigate risks associated with AI-generated content, also known as “synthetic” content. As generative AI makes it easier to create and distribute synthetic content that is indistinguishable from authentic or human-generated content, many are concerned about its potential growing use in political disinformation, scams, and abuse. Legislative proposals to address these risks often focus on disclosing the use of AI, increasing transparency around generative AI systems and content, and placing limitations on certain synthetic content. While these approaches may address some challenges with synthetic content, they also face a number of limitations and tradeoffs that policymakers should address going forward.
Tools & Techniques
https://www.bespacific.com/how-to-use-images-from-your-phone-to-search-the-web/
How to Use Images From Your Phone to Search the Web
The New York Times [unpaywalled] – “If you’re not sure how to describe what you want with keywords, use your camera or photo library to get those search results. A picture is worth a thousand words, but you don’t need to type any of them to search the internet these days. Boosted by artificial intelligence, software on your phone can automatically analyze objects live in your camera view or in a photo (or video) to immediately round up a list of search results. And you don’t even need the latest phone model or third-party apps; current tools for Android and iOS can do the job with a screen tap or swipe. Here’s how…”
If so, we don’t need lawyers…
https://webspace.science.uu.nl/~prakk101/pubs/oratieHPdefENG.pdf
Can Computers Argue Like a Lawyer?
… My own research falls within two subfields of AI: AI & law and computational argumentation. It is therefore natural to discuss today the question whether computers can argue like a lawyer. At a first glance, the answer seems trivial, because if ChatGPT is asked to provide arguments for or against a legal claim, it will generate them. And even before ChatGPT, many knowledge-based AI systems could do the same. But the real question is of course: can computers argue as well as a good human lawyer can? And that is the question I want to discuss today.
Could we put AI in jail?
The Criminal Liability of Artificial Intelligence Entities
The rapid evolution of information technologies has led to the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) entities capable of autonomous actions with minimal human intervention. While these AI entities offer remarkable advancements, they also pose significant risks by potentially harming individual and collective interests protected under criminal law. The behavior of AI, which operates with limited human oversight, raises complex questions about criminal liability and the need for legislative intervention. This article explores the profound transformations AI technologies have brought to various sectors, including economic, social, political, medical, and digital domains, and underscores the challenges they present to the legal framework. The primary aim is to model the development of criminal legislation that effectively addresses the unique challenges posed by AI, ensuring security and safety. The article concludes that existing legal frameworks are inadequate to address the complexities of AI-related crimes. It recommends the urgent development of new laws that establish clear criminal responsibility for AI entities, their manufacturers, and users. These laws should include specific penalties for misuse and encourage the responsible integration of AI across various sectors. A balanced approach is crucial to harness the benefits of AI while safeguarding public interests and maintaining justice in an increasingly AIdriven world
Interesting. AI as a philosopher?
https://philpapers.org/rec/TSUPAL
Possibilities and Limitations of AI in Philosophical Inquiry Compared to Human Capabilities
Traditionally, philosophy has been strictly a human domain, with wide applications in science and ethics. However, with the rapid advancement of natural language processing technologies like ChatGPT, the question of whether artificial intelligence can engage in philosophical thinking is becoming increasingly important. This work first clarifies the meaning of philosophy based on its historical background, then explores the possibility of AI engaging in philosophy. We conclude that AI has reached a stage where it can engage in philosophical inquiry. The study also examines differences between AI and humans in terms of statistical processing, creativity, the frame problem, and intrinsic motivation, assessing whether AI can philosophize in a manner indistinguishable from humans. While AI can imitate many aspects of human philosophical inquiry, the lack of intrinsic motivation remains a significant limitation. Finally, the paper explores the potential for AI to offer unique philosophical insights through its diversity and limitless learning capacity, which could open new avenues for philosophical exploration far beyond conventional human perspectives.
Perspective. AI is getting better at everything, including crime.
Anthropic warns of AI catastrophe if governments don't regulate in 18 months
Only days away from the US presidential election, AI company Anthropic is advocating for its own regulation -- before it's too late.
On Thursday, the company, which stands out in the industry for its focus on safety, released recommendations for governments to implement "targeted regulation" alongside potentially worrying data on the rise of what it calls "catastrophic" AI risks.
In a blog post, Anthropic noted how much progress AI models have made in coding and cyber offense in just one year. "On the SWE-bench software engineering task, models have improved from being able to solve 1.96% of a test set of real-world coding problems (Claude 2, October 2023) to 13.5% (Devin, March 2024) to 49% (Claude 3.5 Sonnet, October 2024)," the company wrote. "Internally, our Frontier Red Team has found that current models can already assist on a broad range of cyber offense-related tasks, and we expect that the next generation of models -- which will be able to plan over long, multi-step tasks -- will be even more effective."
Another way to look at the web.
https://www.bespacific.com/introducing-chatgpt-search/
Introducing ChatGPT search
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OpenAI: “ChatGPT can now search the web in a much better way than before. You can get fast, timely answers with links to relevant web sources, which you would have previously needed to go to a search engine for. This blends the benefits of a natural language interface with the value of up-to-date sports scores, news, stock quotes, and more. ChatGPT will choose to search the web based on what you ask, or you can manually choose to search by clicking the web search icon. Search will be available at chatgpt.com, as well as on our desktop and mobile apps. All ChatGPT Plus and Team users, as well as SearchGPT waitlist users, will have access today. Enterprise and Edu users will get access in the next few weeks. We’ll roll out to all Free users over the coming months… Chats now include links to sources, such as news articles and blog posts, giving you a way to learn more. Click the Sources button below the response to open a sidebar with the references…”See also MIT Technology Review: “At stake is the future of AI search—that is, chatbots that summarize information from across the web. If their growing popularity is any indication, these AI “answer engines” could replace traditional search engines as our default gateway to the internet. While ordinary AI chatbots can reproduce—often unreliably—information learned through training, AI search tools like Perplexity, Google’s Gemini, or OpenAI’s now-public SearchGPT aim to retrieve and repackage information from third-party websites. They return a short digest to users along with links to a handful of sources, ranging from research papers to Wikipedia articles and YouTube transcripts. The AI system does the reading and writing, but the information comes from outside…. At its best, AI search can better infer a user’s intent, amplify quality content, and synthesize information from diverse sources. But if AI search becomes our primary portal to the web, it threatens to disrupt an already precarious digital economy. Today, the production of content online depends on a fragile set of incentives tied to virtual foot traffic: ads, subscriptions, donations, sales, or brand exposure. By shielding the web behind an all-knowing chatbot, AI search could deprive creators of the visits and “eyeballs” they need to survive. ..”
Tools & Techniques.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/claude-ai-adds-desktop-apps-and-dictation-mode-heres-how-to-use-them/
Claude AI adds desktop apps and dictation mode – here's how to use them
Anthropic is expanding its Claude AI beyond the web. On Thursday, the company unveiled new desktop applications for its popular chatbot. Designed for Windows and MacOS, the new apps work similarly to the website and are available for free users and paid subscribers.
To grab the apps, head to the Claude for Desktop site, where you'll find versions for Windows, Windows on ARM, and MacOS. For now, the apps are tagged with a beta label, which may indicate that Anthropic is still tweaking them. After downloading one of the apps, you'll be prompted to sign in using a Google account or an email link. From there, use Claude just as you would use the website.
Imagine the consequences…
https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/31/canada_cybersec_threats/
Chinese attackers accessed Canadian government networks – for five years
India makes it onto list of likely threats for the first time
A report by Canada's Communications Security Establishment (CSE) revealed that state-backed actors have collected valuable information from government networks for five years.
The biennial National Cyber Threat Assessment described the People's Republic of China's (PRC) cyber operations against Canada as "second to none." Their purpose is to "serve high-level political and commercial objectives, including espionage, intellectual property (IP) theft, malign influence, and transnational repression."
… The report also named Russia and Iran as significant hostile states – which isn't surprising.
The inclusion of India, named for the first time as an emerging threat, may be. Canada and India are, after all, both democracies and share membership of the UK-centric Commonwealth of Nations.
Should the people with the passwords also be posting tings online?
Colorado voting system partial passwords accidentally posted on government website
Partial passwords to some parts of the state's voting systems that were accidentally posted online pose no threat to Nov. 5 general election, the Colorado Department of State said on Tuesday.
The department said a spreadsheet located on its website "improperly" included a hidden tab including partial passwords to certain components of Colorado voting systems.
Tasteless. Seems trivial but could kill.
FBI investigated Disney World cyberattack after restaurant menus were changed
Gabrielle Russon reports on your latest reminder of the insider threat:
A fired Disney World employee is accused of hacking into an online system and altering Disney World restaurant menus by changing fonts and prices, adding profanity and manipulating the food allergy warnings, according to new federal documents.
The cyberattack caused at least $150,000 in damage and has gotten the FBI involved. Disney printed the wrong menus but realized the mistake in time. The menus were not sent to restaurants or distributed to the public.
A criminal complaint against Michael Scheuer was filed last week in U.S. District Court’s Orlando division. He was arrested on Oct. 23.
Read more at Florida Politics.
Note that this allegedly vengeful former employee also risked public health and safety. By editing the menus to suggest that certain items were safe for people with peanut allergies when they weren’t, he risked people having life-threatening anaphylactic incidents. There is no allegation that anyone was actually harmed or injured, however, as Disney detected the alterations before menus could be sent out to restaurants.
There seems to be a lot more to this case, as the affidavit in support of the complaint refers to DDoS attacks and Scheuer allegedly “doxing” his victims.
DataBreaches reminds readers that a complaint is just unproven allegations at this point.
To be expected? AI algorithms generate formulaic speech.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-10-text-ai-generated-figured-method.html
How can you tell if text is AI-generated? Researchers have figured out a new method
Have you ever looked at a piece of writing and thought something might be "off"? It might be hard to pinpoint exactly what it is. There might be too many adjectives or the sentence structure might be overly repetitious. It might get you thinking, "Did a human write this or was it generated by artificial intelligence?"
In a new paper, researchers at Northeastern University set out to make it a little easier to answer that question by analyzing the syntax, or sentence structure, in AI-generated text. What they found is that AI models tend to produce specific patterns of nouns, verbs and adjectives more frequently than humans.
The work is published on the arXiv preprint server.
"It empirically validates the sense that a lot of these generations are formulaic," says Byron Wallace, director of Northeastern's data science program and the Sy and Laurie Sternberg interdisciplinary associate professor. "Literally, they're formulaic."
Perspective.
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4963246-ai-sentience-welfare-study/
Plans must be made for the welfare of sentient AI, animal consciousness researchers argue
Computer scientists need to grapple with the possibility that they will accidentally create sentient artificial intelligence (AI) — and to plan for those systems’ welfare, a new study argues.
The report published on Thursday comes from an unusual quarter: specialists in the frontier field of animal consciousness, several of whom were signatories of the New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness.
… But while the probability of creating self-aware artificial life over the next decade might be “objectively low,” it’s high enough that developers need to at least give it thought, Sebo said.
Tools & Techniques. Because you can’t subscribe to everything?
https://www.bespacific.com/all-of-the-paywall-removers-in-one-place/
All of the paywall removers in one place
Archive Buttons – Simply enter the URL of the article and click the archive buttons to remove any paywall.
Social media unchecked...
Elon Musk-Funded PAC Supercharges ‘Progress 2028’ Democrat Impersonation Ad Campaign
An Elon Musk-funded super PAC has expanded an advertising campaign in which it is impersonating Democrats and targeting registered Republicans with policies unpopular with conservatives they say Kamala Harris will pass if she wins the election. The policies, which are not supported by the Harris campaign, include “mandatory” gun buy-back programs, allowing undocumented immigrants to vote, keeping parents out of decisions about gender-affirming care for minors, and imagining “a world without gas-powered vehicles.”
The campaign, called Progress 2028, is designed to look like it is the Democratic version of Project 2025 and lists a set of policies that the group says Harris would enact if elected president. In actuality, the entire scheme is being orchestrated and promoted by an Elon Musk-funded group called Building America’s Future, which registered to operate “Progress 2028” as a “fictitious name” under the PAC, according to documents uncovered by OpenSecrets, which investigates money in politics. Building America’s Future is the group we previously reported on, which is targeting Muslims in Michigan and Jewish people in Pennsylvania with opposing messages about Harris’s stance on Israel’s invasion of Palestine.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2dpj485nno
How X users can earn thousands from US election misinformation and AI images
Some users on X who spend their days sharing content that includes election misinformation, AI-generated images and unfounded conspiracy theories say they are being paid "thousands of dollars" by the social media site.
The BBC identified networks of dozens of accounts that re-share each other's content multiple times a day - including a mix of true, unfounded, false and faked material - to boost their reach, and therefore, revenue on the site.
… Some of these networks support Donald Trump, others Kamala Harris, and some are independent. Several of these profiles - which say they are not connected to official campaigns - have been contacted by US politicians, including congressional candidates, looking for supportive posts.
You do everything right and the people paid to keep you safe rat you out…
https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/29/macron_location_strava/
Merde! Macron's bodyguards reveal his location by sharing Strava data
The French equivalent of the US Secret Service may have been letting their guard down, as an investigation showed they are easily trackable via the fitness app Strava.
An investigation by Le Monde has shown that members of the Security Group for the Presidency of the Republic (GSPR) have been openly displaying their location on the popular software during their workout sessions. Since they travel with President Emmanuel Macron, this makes it fairly easy to work out his location. A dozen of his bodyguards were leaking key information this way.
… More disclosures are promised later, but it appears that both President Biden and Russia's Vladimir Putin are also vulnerable to this kind of tracking. In the latter case, it would be interesting if someone - say a Ukrainian drone operator - got hold of such information.
Perspective.
https://neurosciencenews.com/human-ai-colaboration-neuroscience-27953/
When Human-AI Teams Thrive and When They Don’t
… Published today in Nature Human Behaviour, “When Combinations of Humans and AI Are Useful” is the first large-scale meta-analysis conducted to better understand when human-AI combinations are useful in task completion, and when they are not.
Surprisingly, the research has found that combining humans and AI to complete decision-making tasks often fell short; but human-AI teams showed much potential working in combination to perform creative tasks.
Tools & Techniques.
https://www.bespacific.com/deepfake-o-meter/
Deepfake-o-Meter
UB Media Forensic Lab – DEEPFAKE-O-METER – An Open Platform Integrating State-Of-The-Art Algorithms for DeepFake Image, Video, and Audio Detection. Free but requires login.
Use AI to analyze your data. If you know what to analyze.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/could-ai-make-data-science-obsolete/
Could AI make data science obsolete?
According to these experts, AI democratizes software development, but could eventually replace it altogether -- and change data science as we know it.
… That's the word from Thomas Davenport of Babson College and Ian Barkin, a venture capitalist, in their latest book, All Hands on Tech: The AI-Powered Citizen Revolution. For starters, they point out that with low-code and no-code tools, robotic process automation, and now AI, the gates of software development are open to all.
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In legal first, Japan convicts man of abusing AI to generate ransomware
Malay Mail reports:
A 25-year-old man has become the first person in Japan to be convicted for criminal activities involving generative AI.
According to The Yomiuri Shimbun, the Tokyo District Court found Ryuki Hayashi guilty of creating a computer virus using interactive generative artificial intelligence.
He was sentenced to three years in prison, suspended for four years. Prosecutors had sought a four-year sentence.
The newspaper reported that Hayashi developed the ransomware-like virus at his home in Kawasaki around March 31, 2023, using illegal source code obtained with AI tools.
Read more at MSN.
This could be useful…
https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3691620.3695353
CompAi: A Tool for GDPR Completeness Checking of Privacy Policies using Artificial Intelligence
We introduce CompAı - a tool for checking the completeness of privacy policies against the general data protection regulation (GDPR). CompAı facilitates the analysis of privacy policies to check their compliance to GDPR requirements. Since privacy policies serve as an agreement between a software system and its prospective users, the policy must fully capture such requirements to ensure that collected personal data of individuals (or users) remains protected as specified by the GDPR. For a given privacy policy, CompAı semantically analyzes its textual content against a comprehensive conceptual model which captures all information types that might appear in any policy. Based on this analysis, alongside some input from the end user, CompAı can determine the potential incompleteness violations in the input policy with an accuracy of ≈96%. CompAı generates a detailed report that can be easily reviewed and validated by experts. The source code of CompAı is publicly available on https://figshare.com/articles/online_resource/CompAI/23676069, and a demo of the tool is available on https://youtu.be/zwa_tM3fXHU.
AI as owner. Who gets paid?
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byuplr/vol38/iss1/10/
Plagiarism or Progress?: An Inquiry into Generative AI and Copyright
The emergence of accessible artificial intelligence (AI) in 2022, including notable models such as Chat GPT, Google Bard, and Microsoft Bing Chat, has sparked significant discourse regarding their societal impact. This paper delves into the contrasting perspectives regarding the role of Large Language Models (LLMs) in society, particularly in the realm of copyright law. While pessimists express concerns about the potential stifling of human ingenuity and innovation, optimists advocate for embracing AI's creative potential, advocating for legal reforms to address copyright issues. Focusing on the legal domain, this paper argues for amending US copyright law to accommodate AI-generated content, proposing that the primary creator of such content should hold copyright, contingent upon user involvement. By examining the inherent challenges within the current legal framework and proposing reforms to uphold innovation and creativity, this article aims to contribute to a comprehensive understanding of AI's influence on copyright law.
Perspective.
https://digitalcommons.onu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1367&context=onu_law_review
AI in Robes: Courts, Judges, and Artificial Intelligence
The legal system, courts, and judges in particular, are often criticized for being slow to address new technologies.1 That has not been the case with artificial intelligence (“AI”), especially since the public release of generative AI programs such as ChatGPT.2 In the last couple of years, the court systems and individual courts have proactively taken steps to anticipate and prepare to deal with issues created by AI.3 These actions include both steps to allow courts to take advantage of the benefits offered by AI, and to be prepared to identify and mitigate the risks created by AI.4 This rare technological activism by the courts reflects an understanding of the profound impacts that AI is likely to have on the legal system and society.
This Article reviews the actions that courts have taken to address AI.5 Part I examines the role of the courts in policing the inappropriate use of AI by attorneys.6 Part II describes the courts’ utilization of AI in their operations, both in administrative applications and in researching and drafting judicial opinions and orders.7 In both supervising attorneys’ and their own use of AI, courts have acted surprisingly proactively, spurred on by the rapid speed and powerful capabilities of emerging AI tools.8
