August 29, 2023

This Week in Responsible AI, Aug 29, 2023

This Week in Responsible AI, Aug 29, 2023

Bias

• Autonomous cars worse at detecting children and dark-skinned pedestrians, study finds

Transparency

• "Nutrition labels" aim to boost trust in AI

• A change in Facebook's algorithm leads to steep drops in referral traffic for news websites

Law/Policy

• US Judge Rules AI-Generated Art Not Protected by Copyright Law. See also: What Copyright’s “Unclaimable Material” Rules Mean for Hollywood’s Use of AI.

• Google vows more transparency on ads as new EU rules kick in

• Google and YouTube are trying to have it both ways with AI and copyright

• The A.I. Surveillance Tool DHS Uses to Detect ‘Sentiment and Emotion’

Labor

• Behind the AI boom, an army of overseas workers in ‘digital sweatshops’. See also this interview with a journalist that has reported similar stories.

Generative AI

• AI use rising in influence campaigns online, but impact limited - US cyber firm

• ‘Very wonderful, very toxic’: how AI became the culture war’s new frontier

• Hundreds of AI ‘news’ sites busily spew misinformation. Google and Meta’s Canadian news ban may make it worse

• How Trustworthy Are Large Language Models Like GPT?

• Google's AI Bots Tout 'Benefits' of Genocide, Slavery, Fascism, Other Evils

• Princeton University’s ‘AI Snake Oil’ authors say generative AI hype has ‘spiraled out of control’

• Inside the AI Porn Marketplace Where Everything and Everyone Is for Sale

Compiled by Leif Hancox-Li