Intro to neurorights
AI
I’m not sure the 4 Pillars of Hip Hop covered this exact scenario: the estate of the late Tupac Shakur sent a letter to Drake threatening legal reprisals if he did not take down the Kendrick Lamar diss track he released on Instagram that includes a portion of an AI-generated voice that sounds like Tupac [Drake did remove the track]
Nurses working for Kaiser Permanente held a demonstration at the HMO’s offices in San Francisco, protesting the use of AI agents to monitor patients
An Austrian non-profit privacy advocate group has filed a complaint against OpenAI with the country’s data protection bureau, arguing that ChatGPT’s hallucinations, and the inability to correct them, violates the GDPR [Press release | Complaint]
The Silicon Valley Arbitration and Mediation Center has published a set of “guidelines on the use of artificial intelligence in international arbitration”
Why even RAG-enhanced LLMs can still hallucinate (and some tips to try to reduce the likelihood of same)
Another copyright lawsuit against OpenAI & Microsoft, this time by a group of eight newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune, the Orlando Sentinel and the San Jose Mercury News [NPR | Docket]
And a copyright lawsuit against Google for its text-to-image generator [Reuters | Docket]
The National Archives and Records Administration is planning to block access to ChatGPT on its internal networks and agency-owned devices “protect [NARA] data from security threats associated with use of ChatGPT” [404 Media ($) | Federal News Network | NARA email announcement]
Blockchain/Digital Currency
Founder and former CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange Biance, Changpeng Zhao, has been sentenced to four months for not implementing anti-money-laundering protocols
Amid economic turmoil, Worldcoin’s retinal-scans-for-crypto-tokens formula is becoming popular in Argentina
From MarkUp: “Car Tracking Can Enable Domestic Abuse. Turning It Off Is Easier Said Than Done”
Data Privacy
What are neurorights and how to protect them?
Colorado has passed legislation to protect the privacy of neural data
REPORT: Safeguarding Brain Data: Assessing the Privacy Practices of Consumer Neurotechnology Companies [Summary via New Scientist ($)]
The FCC has fined four major wireless carriers close to $200 million for selling customer location data
Miscellaneous
Meta may face fines if found in violation of the EU’s Digital Services Act, after probes have been launched to investigate the handling political disinformation and foreign manipulation on Facebook and Instagram
From TechCrunch: “A wrestling match over who should control robotaxis is playing out in California”
“The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University today filed a lawsuit on behalf of Ethan Zuckerman—a professor of Public Policy, Communication and Information at the University of Massachusetts Amherst—asking the court to recognize that Section 230 protects the development of tools designed to empower people to better control their social media experiences” [Press statement | Complaint]