Any
actor can play…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/10/14/propaganda-misinformation-israel-hamas-war-social-media/
A
flood of misinformation shapes views of Israel-Gaza conflict
A
WhatsApp voice memo purporting to have insider information ricocheted
across hundreds of group chats in Israel early on Monday. The
Israeli army was planning for another “battle like we’ve never
experienced before,” the anonymous woman said in Hebrew, warning
that people should prepare to lose access to food, water and internet
service for a week.
Across
the country, Israelis raced to the banks and to the grocery stores,
anticipating another attack. But the message, the army clarified
hours later on X, turned out to be a falsehood.
One
week into the war between Israel and Gaza, social media is inducing a
fog of war surpassing previous clashes in the region — one that’s
shaping how panicked citizens and a global public view the conflict.
(Related)
Perhaps there was insufficient data in the AI’s library to match
the photo?
https://www.404media.co/ai-images-detectors-are-being-used-to-discredit-the-real-horrors-of-war/
AI
Images Detectors Are Being Used to Discredit the Real Horrors of War
A
free AI image detector that's been covered in the New York Times and
the Wall Street Journal is currently identifying a photograph of what
Israel says is a burnt corpse of a baby killed in Hamas’s recent
attack on Israel as being generated by AI.
However,
the image does not show any signs it was created by AI, according to
Hany Farid, a professor at UC Berkeley and one of the world’s
leading experts on digitally manipulated images.
Perspective.
https://www.zbw.eu/econis-archiv/handle/11159/605045
Disrupting
Creativity: Copyright Law in the Age of Generative Artificial
Intelligence
Very
recently, due largely to breakthroughs in deep learning technologies,
AI has begun stepping into the shoes of human content generators and
making valuable creative works at scale. Before the end of the
decade, a significant amount of art, literature, music, software, and
web content will likely be created by AI rather than traditional
human authors. Yet the law, as it has so often historically, lags
this technological evolution by prohibiting copyright protection for
AI-generated works. The predominant narrative holds that even if AI
can automate creativity, that this activity is not the right sort of
thing to protect, and that protection could even harm human artists.
AI-generated works challenge beliefs about human exceptionalism and
the normative foundations of copyright law, which until now have
offered something for everyone. Copyright can be about ethics and
authors and protecting the sweat of a brow and personality rights.
Copyright can also be about the public interest and offering
incentives to create and disseminate content. But copyright cannot
have it all with AI authors—there is valuable output being
generated, but by authors with no interests to protect. This
Article argues that American copyright law is, and has been
traditionally, primarily about benefiting the public interest rather
than benefiting authors directly. As a result,
AI-generated works are precisely the sort of thing the system was
designed to protect. Protection will encourage people to develop and
use creative AI which will result in the production and dissemination
of new works. Taken further, attributing authorship to AI when an AI
has functionally done the work of a traditional author will promote
transparency, efficient allocations of rights, and even
counterintuitively protect human authors. AI-generated works also
promise to radically impact other fundamental tenets of copyright law
such as infringement, protection of style, and fair use. How the law
should respond to AI activity has lessons more broadly for thinking
about what rules should apply to people, machines, and other sorts of
artificial authors.
Perspective.
https://www.geekwire.com/2023/robots-ai-and-the-future-of-labor-an-economic-opportunity-way-bigger-than-the-steam-engine/
Robots,
AI, and the future of labor: An economic opportunity ‘way bigger
than the steam engine’
The
global conversation about robots and the workforce has shifted
substantially in recent years, from widespread concerns about robots
taking jobs to growing questions about how quickly they can fill gaps
in the labor market.
One
of the ventures at the forefront of this quest is Sanctuary AI. It’s
a Vancouver, B.C.-based company that has raised more than $100
million Canadian dollars to pursue its vision for labor
as a service. Sanctuary makes a 5-foot, 7-inch
general-purpose humanoid robot called Phoenix, powered by an AI
system called Carbon.
Perspective.
Granted, AI will be faster than humans to see patterns in data. AI
will likely find all the patterns in the data. Who selects
the data?
https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/tech-happy-life/202310/the-ai-domino-effect-how-ai-will-soon-outsmart-us-all
The
Domino Effect: How AI Will Soon Outsmart Us All
Artificial
intelligence (AI)
is a civilization-altering technology that is already
changing our world in
profound ways.
… One
thing capitalism is good at is making things better. We merely have
to look back to our history of various technologies to see proof of
how we improve them—rockets, televisions, video games, laptop
computers, phones, etc. There is a powerful, profit-based incentive
within our capitalist system to overcome any technical hurdles that
stifle technological innovation and evolution. Since there are
profits to be made, it's 100 percent guaranteed that capitalism will
make AI much better than it is now. Importantly, "better"
does not necessarily mean "good."