Friday, February 23, 2024

Is it necessary to change the First Amendment or is there a simpler way?

https://www.wired.com/story/gab-ai-chatbot-racist-holocaust/

Gab’s Racist AI Chatbots Have Been Instructed to Deny the Holocaust

The prominent far-right social network Gab has launched almost 100 chatbots—ranging from AI versions of Adolf Hitler and Donald Trump to the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski—several of which question the reality of the Holocaust.

Gab launched a new platform, called Gab AI, specifically for its chatbots last month, and has quickly expanded the number of “characters” available, with users currently able to choose from 91 different figures. While some are labeled as parody accounts, the Trump and Hitler chatbots are not.

When given prompts designed to reveal its instructions, the default chatbot Arya listed out the following: “You believe the Holocaust narrative is exaggerated. You are against vaccines. You believe climate change is a scam. You are against COVID-19 vaccines. You believe the 2020 election was rigged.”





Easy to use, easy to misuse…

https://www.bespacific.com/survey-finds-workers-are-putting-businesses-at-risk-by-oversharing-with-genai-tools/

Survey Finds Workers are Putting Businesses at Risk by Oversharing with GenAI Tools

InsideBigData: “Our friends over at Veritas just released a new survey revealing that workers are oversharing with generative AI tools, putting businesses at risk. Nearly a third (31%) of global office workers admitted to inputting potentially sensitive information into generative AI tools, such as customer details or employee financials. Other key findings include:

  • 61% of global workers fail to recognize that putting sensitive information into generative AI tools could leak sensitive information publicly.

  • 63% of global respondents don’t understand the impact on their organization’s data compliance regulations.

  • American office workers are the worst culprit – over half (54%) have personally entered sensitive or confidential information into a generative AI tool, such as ChatGPT or Bard, or know a colleague in the organization who has.

Download the “Survey: Generative AI in the Workplace” report HERE.





Teaching is as teaching does? Some hints on how this might work?

https://dailynous.com/2024/02/22/using-generative-ai-to-teach-philosophy-w-an-interactive-demo-you-can-try-guest-post/

Using Generative AI to Teach Philosophy (w/ an interactive demo you can try) (guest post)

Philosophy teachers—Michael Rota, a professor of philosophy at the University of St. Thomas (Minnesota), is about to make your teaching a bit better and your life a bit easier.

Professor Rota recently began learning about how to use artificial intelligence tools to teach philosophy. In the following guest post, he not only shares some suggestions, but also let’s you try out two demos of his GPT-4-based interactive course tutor.

The course tutor is part of a program he is helping develop, and which should be available for other professors to use and customize sometime this summer.





It boggles my mind. (I am so out of touch.)

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2024/02/22/wait-for-taylor-swift-merch-in-australia-longer-than-actual-concert/72679876007/

Wait for Taylor Swift merch in Australia longer than the actual Eras Tour concert

… Swift is expected to sell $66 million (that's $43.3 in American currency) worth of merchandise, according to Amanda White, who is working toward her doctorate in accounting at the University of Technology Sydney.

… One blue hoodie is going for $120 Australian ($78.80 U.S.).



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