I don’t think “Move fast and break things” was meant to include breaking the law. (I might be wrong.)
A Cambridge Analytica-style scandal for AI is coming
Can you imagine a car company putting a new vehicle on the market without built-in safety features? Unlikely, isn’t it? But what AI companies are doing is a bit like releasing race cars without seatbelts or fully working brakes, and figuring things out as they go.
This approach is now getting them in trouble. For example, OpenAI is facing investigations by European and Canadian data protection authorities for the way it collects personal data and uses it in its popular chatbot ChatGPT. Italy has temporarily banned ChatGPT, and OpenAI has until the end of this week to comply with Europe’s strict data protection regime, the GDPR. But in my story last week, experts told me it will likely be impossible for the company to comply, because of the way data for AI is collected: by hoovering up content off the internet.
Will we copy this or ignore it?
Amazon, Facebook, Twitter on EU list of companies facing DSA content rules
The EU Commission has announced 19 large online platforms and search engines that will face new content moderation rules under the Digital Services Act.
The legislation, passed last year, introduced a specific regime for Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) and Very Large Online Search Engines (VLOSEs), all of which have more than 45 million users in the EU.
Amazon Store, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Snapchat, TikTok, Twitter, Wikipedia and YouTube are just some of the 17 companies the EU Commission designated VLOP in its announcement Tuesday. The VLOSEs are Bing and Google Search.
… The companies listed by the Commission will be required to comply with the full set of new obligations under the DSA by August 25. Those obligations include: various features meant to empower users, such as the right to opt-out from recommendation systems based on profiling; strengthening protection of minors; more diligent content moderation policies to help reduce disinformation; and greater transparency and accountability.
By the August deadline, the designated platforms and search engines will need to show the EU Commission that they have successfully adapted their systems, resources, and processes to become compliant, set up an independent system of compliance, and have carried out and reported their first annual risk assessment to the Commission.
Failure to comply with the DSA will result in fines of up to 6% of a company’s global turnover.
If your clients are using AI, you have to be able to audit AI. (This seems to be a late start and perhaps less effort than I expected.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/pricewaterhousecoopers-to-pour-1-billion-into-generative-ai-cac2cedd
PricewaterhouseCoopers to Pour $1 Billion Into Generative AI
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP plans to invest $1 billion in generative artificial intelligence technology in its U.S. operations over the next three years, working with Microsoft Corp. and ChatGPT-maker OpenAI to automate aspects of its tax, audit and consulting services.
… For PwC, the goal isn’t only to develop and embed generative AI into its own technology stack and client-services platforms, but also advising other companies on how best to use generative AI, while helping them build those tools, said Mohamed Kande, PwC’s vice chair and co-leader of U.S. consulting solutions and global advisory leader.
With links to several of the presentations…
https://fpf.org/blog/fpf-at-the-2023-iapp-global-privacy-summit/
FPF AT THE 2023 IAPP GLOBAL PRIVACY SUMMIT
Earlier this month, IAPP held its annual Global Privacy Summit (GPS) in Washington, DC. FPF played a major role in bringing together a team of seven renowned privacy experts on 11 panel discussions and varying peer-to-peer roundtables ranging from U.S. privacy law to AI tech and regulation to regional contractual frameworks for data transfers.
Change. Ready or not, change.
https://www.ft.com/content/dc556ab8-9661-4d93-8211-65a44204f358
The rapid rise of generative AI threatens to upend US patent system
Intellectual property laws cannot handle possibility artificial intelligence could invent things on its own
When members of the US supreme court refused this week to hear a groundbreaking case that sought to have an artificial intelligence system named as the inventor on a patent, it appeared to lay to rest a controversial idea that could have transformed the intellectual property field.
The justices’ decision, in the case of Thaler vs Vidal, leaves in place two lower court rulings that only “natural persons” can be awarded patents. The decision dealt a blow to claims that intelligent machines are already matching human creativity in important areas of the economy and deserve similar protections for their ideas.
But while the court’s decision blocked a potentially radical extension of patent rights, it has done nothing to calm growing worries that AI is threatening to upend other aspects of intellectual property law.
The US Patent and Trademark Office opened hearings on the issue this week, drawing warnings that AI-fuelled inventions might stretch existing understandings of how the patent system works and lead to a barrage of litigation.
(Related)
https://patentlyo.com/patent/2023/04/patenting-inventions-contributions.html
Guidance on Patenting Inventions with AI Contributions
The following are my remarks given on April 25, 2023 to the USPTO as part of their AI listening session:
Tools & Techniques. (Because we might need them…)
https://searchengineland.com/ai-chatgpt-content-detectors-395957
16 of the best AI and ChatGPT content detectors compared
We tested the top detection tools for AI-generated content. Here's what they are good and bad at, plus what to expect when using them.
(Related) Something useful?
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2023/04/a-round-up-of-15-ai-resources-created.html
A Round-up of 15 AI Resources Created Without Using AI
… I've manually assembled the following collection of AI tools for teachers and related AI resources.
Tools & Techniques. Be careful about revealing sensitive information...
https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-ai-chatbot-can-sum-up-any-pdf-and-any-question-you-have-about-it/
This AI chatbot can sum up any PDF and answer any question you have about it
… Regardless of whether it is a 90-page slide deck or a lengthy research paper, PDFs in the classroom or workplace are often tedious to wade through. ChatPDF is here to help.
As the name implies, ChatPDF allows you to chat with your PDF.
ChatPDF runs on OpenAI's GPT 3.5 large language model and can answer any question you have about the PDF you upload. The chatbot can even give you a full summary of the PDF without you having to read it.
Free plan users are limited to three PDF uploads of 120 pages or less a day. However, if you need more access, you can upgrade to a plus plan for $5 per month.
(Related)
News app Artifact can now summarize stories using AI, including in fun styles
Artifact, the personalized news aggregator from Instagram’s founders, is further embracing AI with the launch of a new feature that will now summarize news articles for you. The company announced today it’s introducing a tool that generates article summaries with a tap of a button, in order to give readers the ability to understand the “high-level points” of an article before they read. For a little extra fun, the feature can also be used to summarize news in a certain style — like “explain like I’m five,” [Should be popular with Congress. Bob] in the style of Gen Z speech, or using only emojis, for example.
These styles aren’t really meant to be useful; they’re just there to add a little whimsy to the feature and potentially encourage users to try the new feature.
To use the AI summaries feature, tap on the “Aa” button found on the menu above an individual news article; then tap the new “Summarize” option. The company confirmed it’s leveraging OpenAI’s technologies via its API to generate text summaries.
However, the company cautions users that the feature should not replace actually reading the news, as AI isn’t perfect.
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