AI don't trust techbros
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ChatGPT provides false information about people, and OpenAI can’t correct it
noyb today filed a complaint against the ChatGPT maker OpenAI with the Austrian DPA
noyb.eu
NOYB at first glance appears to basically be a European version of the EFF, focused specifically on GDPR application. Not sure what will come of this, but that is something that hadn't even crossed my mind before - it's basically impossible wiht the current implementation to meet GDPR criteria.
With their "Train on the internet" model and no tracking on that, and AFAIK no way to "un-learn" something without basically going to a previous snapshot of sorts and re-training minus the problematic source(which is a fair impossibility at this point for almost everything that has already been fed into it) there's basically is no way for it to be GDPR compliant. They could maybe re-train it on specific things, but the incorrect associations are basically there forever; even if it's a tiny miniscule chance of those tokens being associated, it's still never going to be zero if they were associated at least once. You could maybe "program" it further with a prompt to avoid that specific association, but if you ahve to keep adding those on top of the base model for every person in the EU who requests a correction, it's going to get unweildly pretty fast IMO. On top of that it's still there if anyone were to acquire a copy of the model without those prompts added.
Then we also come to the fact OpenAI even admits it's entirely just word prediction, not a factual database, so given the previous stipulations, effectively using it as a database may be straight up illegal in EU land due to the requirement for correctness in the GDPR, since that can't be guaranteed.
So it turns out that even AI is susceptible to misinformation. Go figure.
More legal action rolling against the AI-makers:
apnews.com
In addition to a couple from 2023:
While Stack Overflow is explicitly handing its data over to OpenAI(rather than them just stealth-scraping it):
techcrunch.com
Eight US newspapers sue ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement
A group of eight U.S. newspapers is suing ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging that the technology companies have been “purloining millions” of copyrighted news articles without permission or payment to train their artificial intelligence chatbots.
apnews.com
In addition to a couple from 2023:
While Stack Overflow is explicitly handing its data over to OpenAI(rather than them just stealth-scraping it):
Stack Overflow signs deal with OpenAI to supply data to its models | TechCrunch
Stack Overflow, the developer Q&A site, has inked a licensing agreement with OpenAI to supply data to its models.
techcrunch.com
Jason Koebler (@[email protected])
New: OpenAI—a company that has indiscriminately scraped vast amounts of human knowledge to build a company valued at roughly $80 billion—has made a copyright complaint against the ChatGPT subreddit because it used OpenAI’s logo...
I assume this is paywalled: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...nt-imperils-climate-goal-as-emissions-jump-30
Kevin Beaumont (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Slack have decided to start training AI on enterprise customer data, including DMs, private workspaces and files. You have to have admin opt out via email. HT @[email protected] https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/trust/data-management/privacy-principles
Privacy principles: search, learning and artificial intelligence | Legal
Slack’s terms and policies, including privacy, terms of service, API terms, security and more.
slack.com
this is EXACTLY what SAG went on strike to try and stop.
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www.theverge.com
Scarlett Johansson told OpenAI not to use her voice — and she’s not happy they might have anyway
“Her,” indeed.
www.theverge.com
Windows 11 Recall AI feature will record everything you do on your PC
Microsoft has announced a new AI-powered feature for Windows 11 called 'Recall,' which records everything you do on your PC and lets you search through your historical activities.
Enabled by default for business machines enrolled in Intune:
Manage Recall for Windows clients - Windows Client Management
Learn how to manage Recall for commercial environments using MDM and group policy. Learn about Recall features.
learn.microsoft.com
Only saving grace is that right now it can only run on Snapdragon processors(meaning Surface machines). Can't wait for the new ransomware to be threat actors getting persistence, quietly enabling this, then hoovering up the database WITH all your credentials. (and then drop actual ransomware for the cherry on top)
And someone will figure out how to expunge it quickly. Thankfully, the only time my desktop has a microphone is when I use discord, otherwise it's physically unplugged.
Oh, Microsoft says the DB is 100% local... but the training -results- I could see being slipped into telemetry communications. (And again, local means if someone gets access to your machine they could slurp all that up and review it later for any creds in cleartext, or perhaps bank account numbers.)
Also just heard that the "block recording on specific websites" portion only works in Edge. Chrome, Firefox, Tor, and all derived browsers are still recorded all the time, except for Hollywood DRM'd videos of course. That's one way to try to make users use your browser...
Also just heard that the "block recording on specific websites" portion only works in Edge. Chrome, Firefox, Tor, and all derived browsers are still recorded all the time, except for Hollywood DRM'd videos of course. That's one way to try to make users use your browser...
Man I wish IBM had partnered with Atari instead.
Microsoft was always the villain though. They just used to be better at it.
This is the problem when the villains actually win. They have no incentive to keep being efficient villains.
Yet another reason NOT to upgrade to 11, though I run Linux most of the time anyway. Windows is only around for the odd game that I can't get working properly on Proton or the occasional pc game pass subscription.(which is essentially the same as the former)