Ai Artificial Intelligence Archive

With these neural networks [e.g., the type of AI ChatGPT uses], there’s no concise explanation. There’s no explanation in terms of things like checkers moves or strategy or what we think the other player is going to do. All we can really say is just there are a bunch of little numbers and sometimes they go up and sometimes they go down. And all of them together seem to do something involving language. We don’t have the concepts that map onto these neurons to really be able to say anything interesting about how they behave.

Most of what I have written is fairly obvious — this is not an original doomsday scenario. Only a dozen years ago, Demand Media ran “content farms” and went public. It used cheap labor to flood the web with generic websites with fallow information to farm ad dollars. Its main rival, Associated Content, was acquired by Yahoo. Those two companies were pioneers of shallow content and created headaches for legitimate websites and normal people looking for information. It took a while for even Google to beat them back. [...]

Where does fresh content come from in the future? Will we even be incentivized to create something new? Or all future AI refinements be based on erroneous pseudo-babble on social networks like Twitter and Reddit?

And for at least a few days, Google ranked Gizmodo’s machine-made output among the top results for “star wars movies” queries. That’s something Brown noted when he told me that he’s learned that AI content “will, at least for the moment, be well-received by search engines.”

This is just the beginning of a new boom time for tech lawyers. The experts MIT Technology Review spoke to agreed that tech companies are also likely to face litigation over privacy and biometric data, such as images of people’s faces or clips of them speaking.

The union wants to require that a performer has to consent to any use of their performance to train an AI system. The AMPTP would accept that for AI training used to alter or recreate that performer’s likeness. But according to Crabtree-Ireland, the AMPTP would give studios carte blanche to train AI systems to create “synthetic” performers, or for other purposes.

SAG-AFTRA also wants studios to get union consent on individual uses of AI, which the studios have refused to grant. There is also the dispute over background actors.

Their protests have taken different forms. Writers and artists are locking their files to protect their work or are boycotting certain websites that publish A.I.-generated content, while companies like Reddit want to charge for access to their data. At least 10 lawsuits have been filed this year against A.I. companies, accusing them of training their systems on artists’ creative work without consent.