Wednesday, January 22, 2025

I wonder what the prompt was… (Does no one proof read?)

https://www.bespacific.com/trump-admin-accused-of-using-ai-to-draft-executive-orders/

Trump Admin Accused of Using AI to Draft Executive Orders

Futurism: “Mere hours after being sworn in as the 47th president of the United States on Monday, returning President Donald Trump got to work signing dozens — and counting — of executive orders, which range from commands for the US to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement and the World Health Organization to ordering an end to birthright citizenship and renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America.” But while the executive actions range in scope, legal experts have called attention to some curious common threads: bizarre typos, formatting errors and oddities, and stilted language — familiar artifacts that have led to speculation that those who penned them might have turned to AI for help. “Lots of reporting suggested that, this time around, Trump and his lawyers would avoid the sloppy legal work that plagued his first administration so they’d fare better in the courts,” Slate journalist and legal expert Mark Joseph Stern remarked last night in a Bluesky post. “I see no evidence of that in this round of executive orders.” “This is poor, slipshod work,” he added, before alleging that the actions were “obviously assisted by AI.” In another post, Stern pointed to a deeply questionable section of an executive action titled “Unleashing Alaska’s Extraordinary Resource Potential,” which details how the US will take advantage of the state’s “untapped supply of natural resources,” in part by drilling for fossil fuels in regions of previously-protected natural land. In that section, the order includes a numbered list of several distinct Public Land Orders to be reinstated. Each land order, however, is listed next to the number one — an apparent slip-up, we should point out, that we’ve noticed on seemingly AI-generated content in the past…”





If you use AI in California or touch residents anywhere?

https://pogowasright.org/california-ag-issues-legal-advisories-on-the-application-of-california-law-to-the-use-of-ai/

California AG Issues Legal Advisories on the Application of California Law to the Use of AI

Hunton Andrews Kurth writes:

On January 13, 2025, California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued two legal advisories on the use of AI, including in the healthcare context. The first legal advisory (“AI Advisory”) advises consumers and entities about their rights and obligations under the state’s consumer protection, civil rights, competition, and data privacy laws with respect to the use of AI, while the second (“Healthcare AI Advisory”) provides guidance specific to healthcare entities about their obligations under California law regarding the use of AI.
The AI Advisory notes that businesses have existing obligations with respect to their use of AI under existing California law, including the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, the California Invasion of Privacy Act, the Student Online Personal information Protection Act and the Confidentiality of Medical information Act.
The AI Advisory also notes the applicability of recently passed AI laws (with effective dates in 2025 and 2026) to businesses’ use of AI, including laws providing:
  • disclosure requirements for businesses (e.g., regarding training data used in AI models, AI-generated telemarketing, detection tools for content created by generative AI);
  • contractual and consent requirements relating to the unauthorized use of likeness in the entertainment industry and other contexts;
  • disclosure and content removal requirements relating to the use of AI in election and campaign materials;
  • prohibition of and reporting requirements related to exploitative uses of AI (i.e., child pornography, nonconsensual pornography using deepfake technology, sexually explicit digital identity theft); and
  • supervision requirements for use of AI tools in healthcare settings.

Read more at Privacy & Information Security Law Blog.





Basic economics.

https://fee.org/articles/why-we-shouldnt-be-concerned-about-ai-replacing-jobs/

Why We Shouldn’t Be Concerned about AI Replacing Jobs

Technological unemployment is how we become better off.



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