July 15, 2024

This Week in Responsible AI, Jul 15, 2024

This Week in Responsible AI, Jul 15, 2024

Law/Policy

• On the Limitations of Compute Thresholds as a Governance Strategy

• Enabling Principles for AI Governance

• FTC: On Open-Weights Foundation Models

Hype

• ‘No specific purpose’: Experts on how Big Tech attempts to create demand for AI

• AI is effectively ‘useless’—and it’s created a ‘fake it till you make it’ bubble that could end in disaster, veteran market watcher warns

Fakes

• DOJ disrupts Russian ‘bot farm’ used to spread disinformation

• More slop for the void

• How disinformation from a Russian AI spam farm ended up on top of Google search results

• "models show strong fluctuations across even slight problem variations that should not affect problem solving, also expressing strong overconfidence in the wrong solutions, often backed up by plausible sounding explanation-like confabulations"

• ‘The disruption is already happening!’ Is AI about to ruin your favourite TV show?

Privacy

• Hugging Face: Experimenting with Automatic PII Detection on the Hub using Presidio

• Declare your AIndependence: block AI bots, scrapers and crawlers with a single click

Security

• OpenAI breach is a reminder that AI companies are treasure troves for hackers

• Big Tech's eventual response to my LLM-crasher bug report was dire

Labor

• These IATSE Artists Are Voting ‘No’ on Their Next Contract, and AI Is to Blame

• Company claims to make history by "employing" AI workers, then retracts claim.

• On AI and the commoditisation of design

Other

• The telltale words that could identify generative AI text

• Artificial intelligence's thirst for electricity

• Skin Tone and Gender bias in Text to Image Models

• The Sociolinguistic Foundations of Language Modeling

• What does it mean to break a system?

Compiled by Leif Hancox-Li