Perspective. I thought lawyers considered all regulations ambiguous…

https://fpf.org/blog/chevron-decision-will-impact-privacy-and-ai-regulations/

CHEVRON DECISION WILL IMPACT PRIVACY AND AI REGULATIONS

The Supreme Court has issued a 6-3 decision in two long-awaited cases – Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless, Inc. v. Department of Commerce – overturning the legal doctrine of “Chevron deference.” While the decision will impact a wide range of federal rules, it is particularly salient for ongoing privacy, data protection, and artificial intelligence regulations across the federal government.

As a resource, today, Future of Privacy Forum also releases for the public an Issue Brief: The Role of Chevron Deference in Federal Privacy Regulation (read it here ). In this Issue Brief, we highlight the current role that agency deference plays in data protection, privacy, and AI-related efforts across the federal government. These include major ongoing efforts such as the FTC’s Commercial Surveillance and Data Security Rulemaking, updates to the Child Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), and inter-agency efforts to prevent the use of discriminatory automated systems in the housing market and workplace.

Everything you ever wanted to know, hoovered into one list.

https://www.bespacific.com/generative-ai-resources-2024/

Generative AI Resources 2024

Via LLRX – Generative AI Resources 2024 – Referencing an article in this month’s Georgetown Law Technology Review, “…traditional AI algorithms normally operate by carrying out a specific function or completing a task using a data set that contains information on how that function or task has previously been done In other words, traditional AI is able to follow a set of rules, make predictions, or utilize instructions to complete a task; but it is not creating anything new in doing so. Generative AI (GAI) has the ability to create something new, specifically new content.” Marcus P. Zillman new resource guide spans subject matters including law, economics, education, information technology, planning and strategic deployment and use of GAI, as well a best practices and governance.

Nineteen fiftieths

https://fpf.org/blog/comprehensive-privacy-anchors-in-the-ocean-state/

COMPREHENSIVE PRIVACY ANCHORS IN THE OCEAN STATE

On June 25, 2024, Governor McKee transmitted without signature H 7787 and S 2500, the Rhode Island Data Transparency and Privacy Protection Act (RIDTPPA), making Rhode Island the nineteenth state overall and the seventh state in 2024 to enact a comprehensive privacy law. The law will take effect on January 1, 2026, and the majority of its substantive provisions will apply to entities that control or process personal data of either 35,000+ Rhode Islanders or 10,000+ Rhode Islanders if the entity derives 20% or more of its gross revenue from selling personal data. As another iteration of the Washington Privacy Act (WPA) framework, this law includes familiar terminology and core obligations, such as: controller/processor responsibilities allocated by role; the core individual data rights of access, correction, deletion, portability, and opt-out; and opt-in consent for processing sensitive data.

A tool for comparisons.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/cant-decide-which-ai-chatbot-is-best-poe-says-use-them-all/

Can't Decide Which AI Chatbot Is Best? Poe Says Use Them All

… The AI chat platform Poe was born out of the notion that one single AI model will never be perfect for everything. Launched by Q&A platform Quora to the public in February 2023, Poe lets you ask questions of, get answers from, and have conversations with multiple AI-powered bots.

https://poe.com/login

1. Unbelievable.

2. Cruel and unusual punishment?

3. I thought the goal was to keep criminals away from society…

4. What if they like it?

https://www.unilad.com/technology/scientists-implants-prisoners-memories-of-their-crimes-568593-20240625

Scientists unveil implant for prisoners to show them 'memories' from their victim's perspective

With the recent advancements in technology, it's becoming incredible what scientists are now able to achieve.

While that is pretty scary for a lot of folks, there's no doubt we are entering the realms of the future.

And certainly proving that is the fact that a scientist has unveiled a concept for a prison of the future that he says would fast-track a criminal's release to minutes, rather than years or even decades.

Known as Cognify, the design would implant synthetic memories of a person's crime into their brain.

Imagine the next wave…

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/27/business/cdk-global-cyber-attack-update/index.html

The auto dealers outage has been hamstringing car dealerships for days. Experts say that’s the new normal for cyberattacks

Cyberattacks seem to be more devastating than ever and taking targeted companies even longer to resolve.

The latest attack to receive wide attention continues that trend: An ongoing cyber incident at CDK Global, whose software car dealerships use to manage everything from scheduling to records, has crippled dealerships for days now, with no clear end in sight.

In May, a cyberattack on Ascension, a St. Louis-based nonprofit network that includes 140 hospitals in 19 states, forced the system to divert ambulances from several of its hospitals. It took almost a month to fully resolve the issue.

And in February ransomware attack on Change Healthcare, a subsidiary of healthcare giant UnitedHealth Group, caused billing disruptions at pharmacies across the US and threatened to put some health providers out of business.

From raw data to analysis, then perhaps to autonomous attack?

https://www.c4isrnet.com/opinion/2024/06/26/how-the-military-is-preparing-for-ai-at-the-edge/

How the military is preparing for AI at the edge

The Defense Department has long used artificial intelligence to detect objects in battlespaces, but the capability has been mainly limited to identification. New advancements in AI and data analysis can offer leaders new levels of mission awareness with insights into intent, path predictions, abnormalities, and other revealing characterizations.

The DoD has an extensive wealth of data. In today’s sensor-filled theaters, commanders can access text, images, video, radio signals, and sensor data from all sorts of assets. However, each data type is often analyzed separately, leaving human analysts to draw — and potentially miss — connections.

Something to consider?

https://www.bespacific.com/energy-releases-generative-ai-guidance-for-employees-contractors/

Energy releases generative AI guidance for employees, contractors

Fedscoop: “Employees and contractors at the Department of Energy now have a new reference guide to help them navigate use of generative AI tools at the agency, including best practices and a note that ChatGPT is available for use by request. That 61-page document was published and distributed on DOE’s internal network on June 14, a DOE spokesperson told FedScoop. The detailed reference guide constitutes the first such document on generative AI that the department has shared publicly, and while the guidance isn’t considered a formal policy, it provides a window into how the DOE is thinking about the technology. “For us, it is a way to educate our agency and all the folks who will use it for many different purposes about what the opportunity space is [and] how to use it responsibly,” Helena Fu, director of Energy’s Office of Critical and Emerging Technologies and its chief AI officer, said during a panel at Scale’s Gov AI Summit on Tuesday…”

Legal tech inspired by an invisible rabbit? (You young whipper-snappers may need to Google it.)

https://www.bespacific.com/the-hype-behind-harvey/

The Hype Behind Harvey

Law.com: Part 1 – The Hype Behind Harvey: How the Stealthy Startup Is Raising Industry Eyebrows. “Harvey, the OpenAI-backed legal tech startup, has nabbed high-profile clients and tons of cash, along with an air of suspicion around its AI capabilities.”

Law.com: Part 2 – The Hype Behind Harvey: How Firms Are Using the Gen AI Startup. “Harvey, the OpenAI-backed legal and professional services software provider, has quickly accumulated a list of high-profile law firm and corporate clients. At the same time, it’s also raised some skepticism from an industry that has largely been kept out of product demos and pricing details about Harvey’s technology. The first part of this series, which you can read here, digs further into Harvey’s stealth approach, and its impact. While not all law firms that use Harvey have gone on the record, below is a picture of how some of them are currently using the generative AI technology. Harvey offers a suite of generative AI-powered products geared toward law firms and legal professionals. These products currently fall into three buckets: workflow automation; legal research; and an AI assistant (chatbot). Most of the firms listed are piloting and licensing several generative AI tools, one of which is Harvey…”

I would not have guessed that.

https://www.bespacific.com/inhouse-counsel-more-focused-on-ai-automation-than-us-law-firms/

Inhouse Counsel More Focused on AI + Automation Than US Law Firms

Artificial Lawyer: “A survey of over 200 senior lawyers at AmLaw 200 law firms and those working inhouse at major corporations, mainly with a professional interest in disputes, has found that inhouse lawyers appear to be more focused now on AI and automation than their external cousins. The study by ALSP UnitedLex found that when asked what were the top areas for modernisation, only 57% of law firms said integrating automation and analytics, while 71% inhouse said this – which was the highest level of interest across all options. But, in addition, when asked about their long-term goals and specifically on what were the top areas for continuous improvement, inhouse lawyers said the top priority was adopting AI tools (46%), as compared to law firms, which put this in sixth place in terms of importance (38%). For law firms the top long-term, continuous improvement goal was to focus on ‘resource use improvements’, which in this context is likely a euphemism for getting more out of associates and support staff.”

Imagine adding AI so the cans on the shelf can talk you into buying the product.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91145685/why-pepsi-turned-a-special-edition-of-its-can-into-a-digital-billboard

Why Pepsi turned a special edition of its can into a digital billboard

Pepsi’s latest can isn’t for cola—it’s for content.

The soft drink brand unveiled the Pepsi Smart Can at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, but it doesn’t contain any actual Pepsi. In fact, it’s not supposed to get wet.

Instead, the 16 oz. connected can is made with a digital screen, movement sensors, and state-of-the-art sound technology to create what Pepsi is calling a “CANvas” for self expression. In other words, it’s a high-tech piece of dynamic marketing.

Trends…

https://fpf.org/blog/top-six-major-privacy-enforcement-trends-a-u-s-legislation-retrospective/

TOP SIX MAJOR PRIVACY ENFORCEMENT TRENDS: A U.S. LEGISLATION RETROSPECTIVE

Enforcement activity intensifies as U.S. consumer privacy laws continue to evolve and come into effect. In 2023 and 2024 alone, there have been dozens of enforcement actions at the U.S. federal and state levels, some of which reveal or touch on significant throughlines for privacy policy issues, such as what constitutes a privacy violation or the expanding regulatory interest in the risks of collecting, inferring, and using sensitive data. This Retrospective focuses on six major enforcement trends that have recently spoken to key questions or policy issues in the privacy landscape:

Will we become too lazy to read?

https://venturebeat.com/ai/elevenlabs-launches-ios-app-that-turns-any-text-into-audio-narration-with-ai/

ElevenLabs launches iOS app that turns ‘any’ text into audio narration with AI

… Unlike the full ElevenLabs website which contains a variety of different AI models and features including text-to-speech, converting speech into other voices and languages, AI dubbing, and AI sound effects, the new ElevenLabs iOS app is more narrowly tailored and focused specifically on converting text files or links from the web into audio narration that the user can listen to while on the go, or doing something else with their eyes and hands, e.g. barbecuing, making dinner, putting away the dishes, etc.

Darn. Another time waster…

https://www.bespacific.com/public-domain-comic-book-archive/

Public domain comic book archive

Comic Book + / Total 42,888: “Welcome to the main page of our massive public domain comic book archive. True gems to download or read online. So many, it is impossible to read them all! The majority of our books belong to what has been termed the Golden Age of Comics. This began primarily with newspaper reprints and then “went up, up and away” with the introduction of Superman. Styles changed, new genres superseded old and then a new era dawned, the Silver Age of Comics, of which we also have many examples. For what was once a massive industry, the publishers and their successors often took little care of their work. Many of the comics were either not copyrighted correctly, or the copyright was not renewed. Through this oversight thousands of comic books lapsed into what is called the “Public Domain”, which means that there is now no legal owner. That is why we can bring you all of these FREE and LEGALLY! So take our word for it, if you browse around you are certain to spend a great many happy hours here!..”

Tools & Techniques. Could be useful.

https://www.makeuseof.com/2d-to-3d-image-ai-tools/

Turn Your 2D Images Into 3D With These AI Tools

It may be simpler to let AI learn the lawyering game.

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/06/new-legal-ethics-opinion-cautions-lawyers-you-must-be-proficient-in-the-use-of-generative-ai.html

New Legal Ethics Opinion Cautions Lawyers: You ‘Must Be Proficient’ In the Use of Generative AI

A new legal ethics opinion on the use of generative AI in law practice makes one point very clear: lawyers are required to maintain competence across all technological means relevant to their practices, and that includes the use of generative AI.

The opinion, jointly issued by the Pennsylvania Bar Association and Philadelphia Bar Association, was issued to educate attorneys on the benefits and pitfalls of using generative AI and to provide ethical guidelines.

While the opinion is focused on AI, it repeatedly emphasizes that a lawyer’s ethical obligations surrounding this emerging form of technology are no different than those for any form of technology.

What if the next LLM is built on AI hallucinations?

https://dailynous.com/2024/06/24/ai-generated-content-and-academic-journals/

AI Generated Content and Academic Journals

What are good policy options for academic journals regarding the detection of AI generated content and publication decisions?

As a group of associate editors of Dialectica note below, there are several issues involved, including the uncertain performance of AI detection tools and the risk that material checked by such tools is used for the further training of AIs.

For my ‘wall of heroes.’

https://english.elpais.com/technology/2024-06-24/alejandro-caceres-the-hacker-who-took-down-north-koreas-internet-from-his-home-my-attack-was-a-response-to-their-attempt-to-spy-on-me.html

Alejandro Cáceres, the hacker who took down North Korea’s internet from his home: ‘My attack was a response to their attempt to spy on me’

Expect a fight…

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/06/internet-archive-forced-to-remove-500000-books-after-publishers-court-win/

Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win

As a result of book publishers successfully suing the Internet Archive (IA) last year, the free online library that strives to keep growing online access to books recently shrank by about 500,000 titles.

… To restore access, IA is now appealing, hoping to reverse the prior court's decision by convincing the US Court of Appeals in the Second Circuit that IA's controlled digital lending of its physical books should be considered fair use under copyright law. An April court filing shows that IA intends to argue that the publishers have no evidence that the e-book market has been harmed by the open library's lending, and copyright law is better served by allowing IA's lending than by preventing it.

"We use industry-standard technology to prevent our books from being downloaded and redistributed—the same technology used by corporate publishers," Chris Freeland, IA's director of library services, wrote in the blog. "But the publishers suing our library say we shouldn’t be allowed to lend the books we own. They have forced us to remove more than half a million books from our library, and that’s why we are appealing."

Another law. Still no consensus?

https://pogowasright.org/minnesota-enacts-comprehensive-state-privacy-law/

Minnesota Enacts Comprehensive State Privacy Law

Hunton Andrews Kurth writes:

On May 24, 2024, Governor Tim Walz signed H.F. 4757 into law, enacting the Minnesota Consumer Data Privacy Act (“MNCDPA” or “Act”). The MNCDPA will take effect on July 31, 2025.

Applicability

The MNCDPA applies to:

• Legal entities that conduct business in Minnesota or produce products or services that are targeted to residents of Minnesota, and that satisfy one or more of the following thresholds: (1) during a calendar year, controls or processes personal data of 100,000 consumers or more, excluding personal data controlled or processed solely for the purpose of completing a payment transaction; or (2) derives over 25 percent of gross revenue from the sale of personal data and processes or controls personal data of 25,000 consumers or more.

• A controller or processor acting as a “technology provider” under Minnesota law (e., certain persons who contract with a public educational agency or institution).

The MNCDPA applies to Minnesota consumers (i.e., Minnesota residents who act only in an individual or household context and not in a commercial or employment context). The MNCDPA contains numerous exemptions, including exemptions for state or federally chartered banks or credit unions and certain affiliates or subsidiaries, certain insurance companies, nonprofit organizations established to detect and prevent insurance fraud, data subject to the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act; PHI under HIPAA, and certain air carriers. Small businesses as defined by the U.S. Small Business Administration are exempt except from the Act’s sale of sensitive data requirements.

Read more at Privacy & Information Security Law Blog.

The pendulum swings to overreaction? How much AI is too much?

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/21/meta-tagging-real-photos-made-with-ai/

Meta is tagging real photos as ‘Made with AI,’ say photographers

Earlier in February, Meta said that it would start labeling photos created with AI tools on its social networks. Since May, Meta has regularly tagged some photos with a “Made with AI” label on its Facebook, Instagram and Threads apps.

But the company’s approach of labeling photos has drawn ire from users and photographers after attaching the “Made with AI” label to photos that have not been created using AI tools.

The first of many.

https://news.usni.org/2024/06/21/gao-report-on-generative-ai-and-commercial-applications

GAO Report on Generative AI and Commercial Applications

… For this technology assessment, we were asked to describe generative AI and key aspects of its development. This report is the first in a body of work looking at generative AI In future reports, we plan to assess best practices and other factors considered for developing and deploying generative AI tools, societal and environmental effects of the use of generative AI, and federal development and adoption of generative AI technologies. To perform this assessment, we conducted literature reviews and interviewed several leading companies developing generative AI technologies. This report provides an overview of how generative AI works, how it differs from other kinds of AI, and examples of its use across various industries.

… Download the document here.

Ah! Clearly the end is in sight.

https://abovethelaw.com/2024/06/law-schools-are-preparing-for-ais-takeover-of-the-legal-profession/

Law Schools Are Preparing For AI’s Takeover Of The Legal Profession

I estimate that within five years, it will no longer be possible to be a successful lawyer without using AI.

— Professor Gary Marchant of Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, in comments given to Reuters on the rise of the use of artificial intelligence within the legal profession.

Better than GPT-4o?

https://venturebeat.com/ai/anthropics-claude-3-5-sonnet-wows-ai-power-users-this-is-wild/

Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet wows AI power users: ‘this is wild’

A new large language model (LLM) has apparently taken the performance crown from OpenAI’s GPT-4o about a month after its release: the new Claude 3.5 Sonnet chatbot and LLM from rival AI firm Anthropic, released today, bests all others in the world on key third-party benchmark tests, according to the company. And it does so while being faster and cheaper than prior Claude 3 models.

(Related) Maybe...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/20/anthropic-claims-its-latest-model-is-best-in-class/

Anthropic claims its latest model is best-in-class

OpenAI rival Anthropic is releasing a powerful new generative AI model called Claude 3.5 Sonnet. But it’s more an incremental step than a monumental leap forward.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet can analyze both text and images as well as generate text, and it’s Anthropic’s best-performing model yet — at least on paper. Across several AI benchmarks for reading, coding, math and vision, Claude 3.5 Sonnet outperforms the model it’s replacing, Claude 3 Sonnet, and beats Anthropic’s previous flagship model Claude 3 Opus.

A ‘good journalism’ story.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/06/krebsonsecurity-threatened-with-defamation-lawsuit-over-fake-radaris-ceo/

KrebsOnSecurity Threatened with Defamation Lawsuit Over Fake Radaris CEO

On March 8, 2024, KrebsOnSecurity published a deep dive on the consumer data broker Radaris, showing how the original owners are two men in Massachusetts who operated multiple Russian language dating services and affiliate programs, in addition to a dizzying array of people-search websites. The subjects of that piece are threatening to sue KrebsOnSecurity for defamation unless the story is retracted. Meanwhile, their attorney has admitted that the person Radaris named as the CEO from its inception is a fabricated identity.

Tools & Techniques.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/can-ai-detectors-save-us-from-chatgpt-i-tried-5-online-tools-to-find-out/

Can AI detectors save us from ChatGPT? I tried 6 online tools to find out

With the sudden arrival of ChatGPT, educators and editors face a worrying surge of automated content submissions. We look at the problem and what can be done about it.

Hallucinate with confidence?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01641-0

‘Fighting fire with fire’ — using LLMs to combat LLM hallucinations

The number of errors produced by an LLM can be reduced by grouping its outputs into semantically similar clusters. Remarkably, this task can be performed by a second LLM, and the method’s efficacy can be evaluated by a third.

Perspective.

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/06/is-gen-ai-creating-a-divide-among-law-firms-of-haves-and-have-nots.html

Is Gen AI Creating A Divide Among Law Firms Of Haves and Have Nots?

On Friday, I spoke to a group of trial lawyers on the use of generative AI in litigation. Many in the room were that increasingly rare breed of lawyer who actually go into court and try cases. Of several that I spoke to before and after my talk, they were proud of their courtroom skills and happy to share a war story or two. But when it came to talking about generative AI, most seemed to have barely given it a thought.

… Recently, 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Kevin Newsom made news for his 32-page concurring opinion pondering the use of generative AI by courts in interpreting words and phrases. It’s a good read and worth your time.

But what struck me in his opinion as particularly sage advice — advice directly applicable to lawyers in smaller firms — were his concluding words.

“AI is here to stay,” he wrote. “Now, it seems to me, is the time to figure out how to use it profitably and responsibly.”

Perspective.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/jun/20/the-atomic-human-by-neil-lawrence-review-return-of-the-terminator

The Atomic Human by Neil Lawrence review – return of the Terminator

There is, it seems, an unwritten law in the world of artificial intelligence, which I will attempt to distil here: “Any discussion of AI must include an early and robust reference to the Terminator”. Though the 1984 James Cameron film and its 1991 sequel are quite good, here are two equally made-up but probably mostly true facts: no one under the age of 30 has seen either film and, in any case, neither film has anything particularly insightful to say about AI. But here we are, and the relentless analyses of the moment we are in – where we apparently stand on precipices of revolutions, ushering in utopia or the apocalypse – tend to be written by men who have seen Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Terminator failing to assassinate Sarah Connor many times over. If you can also allude to biblical creation, then you’re winning at AI bingo.

Should be an interesting if lengthy process.

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/how-to-fix-ais-original-sin/

How to Fix “AI’s Original Sin”

Last month, The New York Times claimed that tech giants OpenAI and Google have waded into a copyright gray area by transcribing the vast volume of YouTube videos and using that text as additional training data for their AI models despite terms of service that prohibit such efforts and copyright law that the Times argues places them in dispute. The Times also quoted Meta officials as saying that their models will not be able to keep up unless they follow OpenAI and Google’s lead. In conversation with reporter Cade Metz, who broke the story, on the New York Times podcast The Daily, host Michael Barbaro called copyright violation “AI’s Original Sin.”

At the very least, copyright appears to be one of the major fronts so far in the war over who gets to profit from generative AI. It’s not at all clear yet who is on the right side of the law. In the remarkable essay “Talkin’ ’Bout AI Generation: Copyright and the Generative-AI Supply Chain,” Cornell’s Katherine Lee and A. Feder Cooper and James Grimmelmann of Microsoft Research and Yale note:

Copyright law is notoriously complicated, and generative-AI systems manage to touch on a great many corners of it. They raise issues of authorship, similarity, direct and indirect liability, fair use, and licensing, among much else. These issues cannot be analyzed in isolation, because there are connections everywhere. Whether the output of a generative AI system is fair use can depend on how its training datasets were assembled. Whether the creator of a generative-AI system is secondarily liable can depend on the prompts that its users supply.

But it seems less important to get into the fine points of copyright law and arguments over liability for infringement, and instead to explore the political economy of copyrighted content in the emerging world of AI services: Who will get what, and why? And rather than asking who has the market power to win the tug of war, we should be asking, What institutions and business models are needed to allocate the value that is created by the “generative AI supply chain” in proportion to the role that various parties play in creating it? And how do we create a virtuous circle of ongoing value creation, an ecosystem in which everyone benefits?

Resources.

https://www.pcmag.com/articles/the-best-free-online-classes-to-level-up-your-ai-skills

The Best Free Online Classes to Level Up Your AI Skills and Understanding

Artificial intelligence is progressing at a breakneck pace, and if you want to keep up, we highly recommend checking out these top-notch courses from leaders at Google, IBM, and Microsoft.

Most of this will not rise to the level where journalists would find it news-worthy.

https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-local-races-deepfakes-2024-1d5080a5c916d5ff10eadd1d81f43dfd

AI experimentation is high risk, high reward for low-profile political campaigns

Adrian Perkins was running for reelection as the mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana, when he was surprised by a harsh campaign hit piece.

The satirical TV commercial, paid for by a rival political action committee, used artificial intelligence to depict Perkins as a high school student who had been called into the principal’s office. Instead of giving a tongue-lashing for cheating on a test or getting in a fight, the principal blasted Perkins for failing to keep communities safe and create jobs.

The video superimposed Perkins’ face onto the body of an actor playing him. Although the ad was labeled as being created with “deep learning computer technology,” Perkins said it was powerful and resonated with voters. He didn’t have enough money or campaign staff to counteract it, and thinks it was one of many reasons he lost the 2022 race. A representative for the group behind the ad did not respond to a request for comment.

“One hundred percent the deepfake ad affected our campaign because we were a down-ballot, less resourced place,” said Perkins, a Democrat. “You had to pick and choose where you put your efforts.”

(Related) Do we need an Article 50?

https://www.bespacific.com/a-detailed-analysis-of-article-50-of-the-eus-artificial-intelligence-act/

A Detailed Analysis of Article 50 of the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act

Gils, Thomas, A Detailed Analysis of Article 50 of the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act (June 14, 2024). Chapter to appear in an upcoming commentary on the EU AI Act (Q3-4 2024)., https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4865427 – “Article 50 of the EU’s AI Act contains transparency requirements for (i) interactive AI systems; (ii) synthetic content (including synthetic audio, image, video or text content); (iii) emotion recognition systems and biometric categorisation systems; (iv) deep fakes, and; (v) synthetic text informing the public on matters of public interest. This commentary offers a detailed analysis of this provision, taking into account the position of article 50 within the AI Act and the broader AI policy context.”

Perspective.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/06/rethinking-democracy-for-the-age-of-ai.html

Rethinking Democracy for the Age of AI

There is a lot written about technology’s threats to democracy. Polarization. Artificial intelligence. The concentration of wealth and power. I have a more general story: The political and economic systems of governance that were created in the mid-18th century are poorly suited for the 21st century. They don’t align incentives well. And they are being hacked too effectively.

At the same time, the cost of these hacked systems has never been greater, across all human history. We have become too powerful as a species. And our systems cannot keep up with fast-changing disruptive technologies.

We need to create new systems of governance that align incentives and are resilient against hacking at every scale. From the individual all the way up to the whole of society.

For this, I need you to drop your 20th century either/or thinking. This is not about capitalism versus communism. It’s not about democracy versus autocracy. It’s not even about humans versus AI. It’s something new, something we don’t have a name for yet. And it’s “blue sky” thinking, not even remotely considering what’s feasible today.

Throughout this talk, I want you to think of both democracy and capitalism as information systems. Socio-technical information systems. Protocols for making group decisions. Ones where different players have different incentives. These systems are vulnerable to hacking and need to be secured against those hacks.

Interesting, but I suspect a very small audience.

https://www.dtnext.in/edit/bibliophiles-corner-now-read-the-classics-with-ai-powered-expert-guides-790255

Bibliophile’s corner: Now read the classics with AI-powered expert guides

For the past year, two philosophy professors have been calling around to prominent authors and public intellectuals with an unusual, perhaps heretical, proposal. They have been asking these thinkers if, for a handsome fee, they wouldn’t mind turning themselves into A.I. chatbots.

… As Dubuque envisioned it, the imprint would pair a world-class expert with a classic work and use technology similar to ChatGPT to replicate the dialogue between a student and teacher.