A mess AI created. Is it possible AI could solve it? Has anyone asked ChatGPT? (Some really good bad examples…)

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/things-are-about-to-get-a-lot-worse

Things are about to get a lot worse for Generative AI

A full of spectrum of infringement

At around the same time as news of the New York Times lawsuit vs OpenAI broke, Reid Southen, the film industry concept artist (Marvel, DC, Matrix Resurrections, Hunger Games, etc.) I wrote about last week, and I started doing some experiments together.

We will publish a full report next week, but it is already clear that what we are finding poses serious challenges for generative AI.

The crux of the Times lawsuit is that OpenAI’s chatbots are fully capable of reproducing text nearly verbatim:

… The thing is, it is not just text. OpenAI’s image software (which we accessed through Bing) is perfectly capable of verbatim and near-verbatim repetition of sources as well.

No child left unsurveilled?

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/29/artificial-intelligence-privacy-schools-00132790

Artificial intelligence stirs privacy challenges for schools

State and local leaders are navigating protections for students despite a lag in federal support.

… Dozens of Arizona school districts have been vetting technology vendors to weed out products that might use student data for advertising. Schools in West Virginia and Montana have started to boost their security using facial recognition systems even though it has a high rate of false matches among women and children and is already a concern across New York.

… Oregon provides a checklist and other materials for schools looking to develop generative AI policies while California is directing schools on how they can integrate AI in the classroom in a way that prioritizes student safety. Mississippi expects to release school AI guidance in January, and Arizona is forming a committee in early 2024 to recommend policy procedures for implementing and monitoring the technology in schools.

… After a legal challenge and subsequent moratorium, New York banned the use of facial recognition in schools in September after the state found the use of the technology for security purposes “may implicate civil rights laws,” noting that it could lead to a “potentially higher rate of false positives for people of color, non-binary and transgender people, women, the elderly and children.” But in Montana, the state barred the continuous use of facial recognition technology by state and local governments but carved schools out of the ban.