Weekly Web Harvest for 2024-12-08

  • The harm & hypocrisy of AI art — Matt Corrall
  • Against AI and Its Environmental Harms-keep | Riseup Pad
  • NYT v. OpenAI: The Times’s About-Face | Harvard Law Review
    But the Times no longer seems so concerned with preserving the usefulness of new technological tools. In fact, the Times — ironically — now seeks that same sort of total, destructive relief. In its complaint against OpenAI, the Times asks not only for monetary damages and a permanent injunction against further infringement but also for “destruction…of all GPT or other LLM models and training sets that incorporate Times Works.”
  • Log in · Hume AI
    AI for evaluating voice emotion, facial expressions etc.
  • Reputation Management in the ChatGPT Era
    Generative AI systems often generate outputs about real people, even when not explicitly
    prompted to do so. This can lead to significant reputational and privacy harms, especially
    when sensitive, misleading, and outright false. This paper considers what legal tools
    currently exist to protect such individuals, with a particular focus on defamation and data
    protection law. We explore the potential of libel law, arguing that it is a potential but not an
    ideal remedy, due to lack of harmonization, and the focus on damages rather than
    systematic prevention of future libel. We then turn to data protection law, arguing that the
    data subject rights to erasure and rectification may offer some more meaningful protection,
    although the technical feasibility of compliance is a matter of ongoing research. We conclude
    by noting the limitations of these individualistic remedies and hint at the need for a more
    systemic, environmental approach to protecting the infosphere against generative AI.
  • An AI Is Inventing Fake Quotes by Real People and Publishing Them Online
    “It was funny reading the quote itself, because, well, first of all, it gets my affiliation wrong,” said Binns, when asked about the experience of being misquoted by an AI machine in published synthetic content. “I’m not a professor of artificial intelligence at the University of Cambridge, I’m a Professor of Human Centered Computing at the University of Oxford… although in the grand scheme of things, those two things, the title and the affiliation, are not that far apart.”

    “And then the quote itself,” he added, “I don’t disagree with it — I think I kind of agree with it.”

    Still, said Binns, if he were actually to weigh in on the topic of robot actors, he would have said something a bit different. And regardless of whether the quote is plausible, it doesn’t change the reality that he never actually said it.