@Jimijamflimflam Haha, interesting, I actually took that to mean vertically-aligned, which then makes sense when you refer to top and bottom.
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@Jimijamflimflam
Magnificent image description. Adding this as an example in my course materials. With your consent of course š
@georgetakei
I believe many people would appreciate it if you add image descriptions.
ā ļø Mention of self-harm instigated by chatbot
The thing to keep an eye on now is how seriously this tragic event will be taken by manufacturers, politicians, researchers and journalists and what specific actions will be taken by each.
In my post about AI responsibility in a hyped-up world I wrote this:
āAnd when mental illness can be intensified by a machine and lead to horrific consequences, it is easily waved away. It appears no one needs to be held responsible for the machineās impact. Nothing needs to be regulated or recalled.
Some people matter less than others.ā
The consequences can be predicted. They can be managed before tragedy strikes. The reason they are not predicted and managed is because there is no interest or understanding on the manufacturer side. So who should be allowed to be building and releasing these tools to the masses?
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkadgm/man-dies-by-suicide-after-talking-with-ai-chatbot-widow-says
P.S. Please refer to your national health agency for information on who you can contact when you need someone to talk to for support.
Italy first out in banning ChatGPT out of privacy concerns. They will be investigating:
- the recent data breach (on March 20)
- the lack of consent given for how any personal data is used (what data is being retained and for how long, potentially for training purposes)
- the lack of an age verification system
āOpenAI has been given 20 days to respond to the [the Italian data protection] agency's concerns, or the company could face a fine of either $21 million or 4% of its annual revenue.ā
https://www.inkl.com/a/byAalWsVPkx
#AIHype #ChatGPT #GDPR
@janellecshane
Haha, thank you his made my day.
Damnit. I tend to forget how bad Mastodon is at markdown. On my end it all looks so pretty, and then I try looking at it on Mastodon and itās a complete mess.
I always wonder why Mastodon allows links but not bullet lists š¤Æ
#Akkoma
My writeup of the open letter debacle, with so many links and references(!)
Why that open letter urging an AI development pause is problematic
Among other things:
- The host organisation
- Essentially no mention of all the current harm
- Boosting the idea of sentience
- Misleading citations
- The choice of "6 months"
- We vs. they
https://axbom.com/ai-open-letter-problematic/
#AIHype #AIEthics #DigitalEthics
The main reason the technocrat billionaires are conjuring AI at the same time as they explain how afraid they are the of thing they are conjuring: itās because they believe they have a better chance of not suffering the abuse everyone else is suffering if they can claim to be its master.
This is what they mean with the word āloyalā in that open letter.
#AIHype #AIEthics #DigitalEthics
My list of real and potential harms by generative models already in motion, that the open letter fails to acknowledge:
Ā» Security issues such as data privacy and breaches, that have already happened
Ā» The fact that these tools are trained on vast amounts of biased data and serve to perpetuate that bias
Ā» The fact that workers in Kenya and elsewhere are being exploited to train these tools, having to suffer harm to remove harmful content. A practice long employed by social media companies.
Ā» An increase in the capture of biometrically inferred data that will severely impact human free will as it enables widespread personal manipulation (deepfakes) and gives authoritarian regimes more power to suppress dissent. Or encourages democracies to move towards authoritarianism, when putting the disenfranchised in harms way .
Ā» Risks to climate due to significant energy use in large neural network training. Itās valid to note that the ones who benefit the most from AI are the rich, and the ones who suffer most from the climate crisis are the poor. The latter group donāt appear to get a lot of say in what these suggested 6 months of pause mean for them.
Ā» Bad actors with nefarious intent becoming hugely empowered to do damage with malware and scams , but also to invent chemical weapons .
Ā» How the tools are already disrupting art, literature and education (including ownership of all training data) without opportunity to address these issues in a reasoned manner
Ā» Exclusion of a large part of the global population simply due to the limited number of languages that these tools are trained on.
Ā» Unsubstantiated claims of sentience that lead to unfounded fears (a harm that the letter itself contributes to)
#AIHype #AIEthics #DigitalEthics
I also urge you to read this just-published message: Statement from the listed authors of Stochastic Parrots on the āAI pauseā letter.
Saying it like it is are @timnitGebru, @meg, @emilymbender and Angelina McMillan-Major. Anyone interested in the topic of generative models should of course be following them all and reading their work.
Quote: Ā«While we are not surprised to see this type of letter from a longtermist organization like the Future of Life Institute, which is generally aligned with a vision of the future in which we become radically enhanced posthumans, colonize space, and create trillions of digital people, we are dismayed to see the number of computing professionals who have signed this letter, and the positive media coverage it has received. It is dangerous to distract ourselves with a fantasized AI-enabled utopia or apocalypse which promises either a "flourishing" or "potentially catastrophic" future. Such language that inflates the capabilities of automated systems and anthropomorphizes them, as we note in Stochastic Parrots, deceives people into thinking that there is a sentient being behind the synthetic media. This not only lures people into uncritically trusting the outputs of systems like ChatGPT, but also misattributes agency. Accountability properly lies not with the artifacts but with their builders.Ā»
FULL TEXT here:
https://www.dair-institute.org/blog/letter-statement-March2023
#AIHype #AIEthics #DigitalEthics
@johan_m_o
Great post, thank you for sharing.
I agree about the Fediverse. I feel like there is so much more reflection and consideration here. It's obviously changed a lot over the past year but I do hope the air of reasoned conversation will prevail when the opposite isn't rewarded.
I may need a support group to express all my grievances about the #AIHype... š
Oh wait, you're here. Thank you truly.
@exchgr
Oh that's sad... and this only feels like beginning š„
@AasaMariaHedberg Ć
h vilka bra perpektiv! Kan bara hƄlla med i allt.
Boken jag lƤser just nu gƶr dessa reflektioner kring Computationalism, denna tro pƄ att datorer kan ersƤtta oss i alla lƤgen, och har fƶr mig ƶvertygande argument kring hur mycket som fƶrsvinner nƤr vi tar bort kroppen ur tƤnkandet och siffror ska fƶrsƶka Ƅstadkomma det som vi gƶr bƤttre analogt.
Men jag ska absolut skapa en sƤrskild sƄdan bokmƤrkeslista som jag kan dela nƤr jag hittar artiklar.
Boken:
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674032927
@moiety Thank you.
@LeoR1010 Ć h vad roligt att du gillade det. Satt en stund innan jag postade. All de hƤr formuleringarna dyker upp i mig hela dagarna men vet inte hur mĆ„nga som Ƥr med pĆ„ vad jag Ƥr ute efter. Tack!
How harmful does a chatbot need to be for people to stop using it? How much do you yourself need to benefit to choose to ignore the harm done to others?
When I left Facebook some years ago I emphasised how it was the (very late) acknowledgement of harm done to others that was the final straw.
Being complicit in the use of tools that enforce bias is an active choice. I honestly don't think many people think of this as being complicit ā but I believe future historians won't let anyone off easy.
What can matter in the moment - and for your future wellbeing - is living true to your values. I often encourage my students to start there, because we so rarely are given time and space to validate and reflect on our own values.
We won't always get it right, but that can't stop us from working to get it right more often.
Iāve of course been listening to a lot of podcasts with a critical take on the AI hype.
Sharing podcasts can be a pain, but the way Listen Notes does it is pretty cool. Iāve created a curated playlist with episodes from different shows, and you can subscribe to this playlist in whatever player you like.
And then, whenever I add a new favorite episode to this playlist it will actually update in your player as well. So the playlist gets its own RSS feed and behaves like a regular podcast.
Some of these episodes are actually from before the current hype. And yes, Iāve sneaked in my own episode as well.
Here you go if youāre curious:
https://lnns.co/_F3BJacbkns
#AIHype #AIEthics #ResponsibleAI
@maryellen
Does it have any connections to Sweden? Thinking of ābakā which can refer to the act of baking but is also a word for butt.
On April 1 I shall likely raise a glass in remembrance my dear old blue tick. Itās wild that it still hasnāt been removed in all this time of oafish leadership.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-65095684
@LeoR1010 Allt urvattnas nƤr kostnaden blir noll fƶr att producera innehĆ„ll š¢
@baslow Thank you! Those both look very interesting. I'm happy you interpreted my point so perfectly!