If we train AI on increasing levels of AI generated data at what point do all the answers become delusional?

https://www.bespacific.com/experts-90-of-online-content-will-be-ai-generated-by-2026/

Experts: 90% of Online Content Will Be AI-Generated by 2026

Futurism: “Don’t believe everything you see on the Internet” has been pretty standard advice for quite some time now. And according to a new report from European law enforcement group Europol, we have all the reason in the world to step up that vigilance. “Experts estimate that as much as 90 percent of online content may be synthetically generated by 2026,” the report warned, adding that synthetic media “refers to media generated or manipulated using artificial intelligence.” “In most cases, synthetic media is generated for gaming, to improve services or to improve the quality of life,” the report continued, “but the increase in synthetic media and improved technology has given rise to disinformation possibilities.” As it probably goes without saying: 90 percent is a pretty jarring number. Of course, people have already become accustomed — to a degree — to the presence of bots, and AI-generated text-to-image programs have certainly been making big waves. Still, our default isn’t necessarily to assume that almost everything we come into digital contact with might be, well, fake.

On a daily basis, people trust their own perception to guide them and tell them what is real and what is not,” reads the Europol report. “Auditory and visual recordings of an event are often treated as a truthful account of an event. But what if these media can be generated artificially, adapted to show events that never took place, to misrepresent events, or to distort the truth?”

I’m not sure how to take this. Is this a new class of criminal or a mental health issue?

https://www.bespacific.com/who-knowingly-shares-false-political-information-online/

Who knowingly shares false political information online?

Misinformation Review: Who knowingly shares false political information online? “Some people share misinformation accidentally, but others do so knowingly. To fully understand the spread of misinformation online, it is important to analyze those who purposely share it. Using a 2022 U.S. survey, we found that 14 percent of respondents reported knowingly sharing misinformation, and that these respondents were more likely to also report support for political violence, a desire to run for office, and warm feelings toward extremists. These respondents were also more likely to have elevated levels of a psychological need for chaos, dark tetrad traits, and paranoia. Our findings illuminate one vector through which misinformation is spread.”

We may need AI to sort out these answers.

https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2023/8/27/generative-ai-ad-intellectual-property

Generative AI and intellectual property

We’ve been talking about intellectual property in one way or another for at least the last five hundred years, and each new wave of technology or creativity leads to new kinds of arguments. We invented performance rights for composers and we decided that photography - ‘mechanical reproduction’ - could be protected as art, and in the 20th century we had to decide what to think about everything from recorded music to VHS to sampling. Generative AI poses some of those questions in new ways (or even in old ways), but it also poses some new kinds of puzzles - always the best kind.

At the simplest level, we will very soon have smartphone apps that let you say “play me this song, but in Taylor Swift’s voice”. That’s a new possibility, but we understand the intellectual property ideas pretty well - there’ll be a lot of shouting over who gets paid what, but we know what we think the moral rights are. Record companies are already having conversations with Google about this.

But what happens if I say “make me a song in the style of Taylor Swift” or, even more puzzling, “make me a song in the style of the top pop hits of the last decade”?

A summary.

https://www.cpomagazine.com/data-protection/chatgpt-ip-and-privacy-considerations/

ChatGPT – IP and Privacy Considerations

There has been much excitement about ChatGPT since it launched in November 2022. A bellwether for the advance of generative AI, it can chat, create content, code, translate, brainstorm and more. It can even act as a personal assistant or therapist. Its use cases are almost endless.

The advance of AI raises some important questions. Is it the harbinger of the singularity? Will it replace all our jobs? We don’t aim to answer those questions here… Instead, we focus on the potential IP and data protection issues surrounding use of ChatGPT.