August 5, 2024

This Week in Responsible AI, Aug 5, 2024

Labor

• Opinion: What’s behind the AI boom? Exploited humans

• Video game performers will go on strike over artificial intelligence concerns

Data rights

• Leaked Documents Show Nvidia Scraping ‘A Human Lifetime’ of Videos Per Day to Train AI

• Perplexity AI will share revenue with publishers after plagiarism accusations

• Websites are Blocking the Wrong AI Scrapers (Because AI Companies Keep Making New Ones)

Fakes

• Zombie Alt-Weeklies Are Stuffed With AI Slop About OnlyFans

• Meta blames hallucinations after its AI said Trump rally shooting didn’t happen

• Google Pulls Controversial ‘Dear Sydney’ Gemini AI Ad From NBC Olympics Rotation After Backlash: ‘Who Wants an AI-Written Fan Letter??’

• Deepfakes' parody loophole

• Google tweaks Search to help hide explicit deepfakes

• Having taken orders, Chinese factory must actually make massive AI slop gorilla sofas

Law/Policy

• Meta to pay $1.4 billion settlement with Texas over facial recognition and photo tags

• Chips for Peace: how the U.S. and its allies can lead on safe and beneficial AI

• The EU's AI Act is now in effect. Here's what you need to know

• Foundation Models under the EU AI Act

• NTIA Supports Open Models to Promote AI Innovation

• US: Copyright Office Releases Part 1 of Artificial Intelligence Report, Recommends Federal Digital Replica Law

Other

• Meta's AI safety system defeated by the space bar

• Power-Hungry Data Centers Are Gobbling Up Texas Amid AI Boom

• Nike’s $25B blunder shows us the limits of “data-driven”

• Gymnastics: The AI keeps the score

• Medical Science Shouldn't Platform Automating End-of-Life Care

• How a Cafe in Thailand Unintentionally Hijacked the TikTok Algorithm

Compiled by Leif Hancox-Li