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In 2023, #generativeAI made content creation easier but raised trust concerns due to #deepfake attacks. Using #AI, fraudsters crafted fake videos from victims' images, enabling identity #fraud.

At the @w3c member meeting in #Hiroshima 🇯🇵, Sophia Wu (Ant Group) called for collaboration to tackle #deepfake threats with new complementary Web standards.

🎬 Watch the video: https://youtu.be/PGBIfZSF174


Like many other technologists, I gave my time and expertise for free to #StackOverflow because the content was licensed CC-BY-SA - meaning that it was a public good. It brought me joy to help people figure out why their #ASR code wasn't working, or assist with a #CUDA bug.

Now that a deal has been struck with #OpenAI to scrape all the questions and answers in Stack Overflow, to train #GenerativeAI models, like #LLMs, without attribution to authors (as required under the CC-BY-SA license under which Stack Overflow content is licensed), to be sold back to us (the SA clause requires derivative works to be shared under the same license), I have issued a Data Deletion request to Stack Overflow to disassociate my username from my Stack Overflow username, and am closing my account, just like I did with Reddit, Inc.

https://policies.stackoverflow.co/data-request/

The data I helped create is going to be bundled in an #LLM and sold back to me.

In a single move, Stack Overflow has alienated its community - which is also its main source of competitive advantage, in exchange for token lucre.

Stack Exchange, Stack Overflow's former instantiation, used to fulfill a psychological contract - help others out when you can, for the expectation that others may in turn assist you in the future. Now it's not an exchange, it's #enshittification.

Programmers now join artists and copywriters, whose works have been snaffled up to create #GenAI solutions.

The silver lining I see is that once OpenAI creates LLMs that generate code - like Microsoft has done with Copilot on GitHub - where will they go to get help with the bugs that the generative AI models introduce, particularly, given the recent GitClear report, of the "downward pressure on code quality" caused by these tools?

While this is just one more example of #enshittification, it's also a salient lesson for #DevRel folks - if your community is your source of advantage, don't upset them.


I'm old enough to remember how @creativecommons was founded as a way for independent creators to safely share their work and build upon each other.

In 2024, their take is now "billion dollar companies plagiarizing your art is fair use".

https://creativecommons.org/2023/02/17/fair-use-training-generative-ai/

Hats off to the author, you don't see that kind of, uh, skillful rhetoric chicanery every day. Like "generative AI doesn't compete with artists because artists are not in the data market". 😬

#CreativeCommons #GenerativeAI


Stop confusing publicly available with public domain.

These are not the same, at all.

If you are confused about it, read this: https://www.plagiarism.org/blog/2018/02/27/understanding-the-public-domain-and-citation

#Copyright #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #DigitalRights #Privacy


Just a random thought.
As Generative AI is being used for creating a lot of content these days, what happens when the next generation of AI models are trained using that content.
When AI models are trained on AI generated content, we'll officially enter the 8th circle of hell
#ai #generativeai #AItransparency #discussion


"Blind internet users struggle with error-prone AI aids", reports an article in the Financial Times:
https://www.ft.com/content/3c877c55-b698-43da-a222-8ae183f53078

#FT has a paywall but three articles can be accessed for free if you register.

TLDR is that AI #accessibility widgets over promise and under deliver. Repeatedly.

#AI #GenerativeAI #a11y


#GenAI hype in financial terms! #AI #nvidia #NVDA #generativeAI

https://youtube.com/watch?v=idxW9VGdXoA&si=bYQIKGV8_V3JacDH


Can generative AI help us write accessible code?

In this post on the @TetraLogical blog, I ask Bard (now Gemini), ChatGPT from OpenAI, and Fix My Code from userway for help writing accessible code:
https://tetralogical.com/blog/2024/02/12/can-generative-ai-help-write-accessible-code/

#GenerativeAI #AI #accessibility


🫠 Meta disbanded its Responsible AI team | @verge

"RAI was created to identify problems with its AI training approaches, including whether the company’s models are trained with adequately diverse information, with an eye toward preventing things like moderation issues on its platforms"

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/18/23966980/meta-disbanded-responsible-ai-team-artificial-intelligence

#AI #AIEthics #GenerativeAI


🥸 CURL Project Trolled By Fake AI Bug Report
@BrodieOnLinux

https://youtube.com/watch?v=r0-tKuoiagY

#CURL #GenerativeAI #Opensource


From an actual AI VC:

Generative AI investing: a process by which venture capital firms transfer large amounts of money to NVIDIA via intermediaries known as “startups”


Inflection.ai latest round:

Inflection AI is building the largest AI cluster in the world comprising 22,000 NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs.


Even with NVIDIA as investor, that's one pricey cluster 🤑

#ai #generativeAI #nvidia


This one has different methodologies and philosophies that try to mitigate some of the ethical issues with other similar #GenerativeAI programming systems.

Hugging Face and ServiceNow Research release StarCoder, a free alternative to code-generating #AI like GitHub's #Copilot, as part of the #BigCode project.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/04/hugging-face-and-servicenow-release-a-free-code-generating-model/

#MachineLearning


"Midjourney now offers a clever twist on its #AI image software, using its powerful machine-learning algorithms to generate text descriptions of already-existing images. This makes detailed image captions trivially easy to make and could totally change the game for blind people when it comes to pictures. "

Why #Midjourney’s New #ImageToText Generator Is an #Accessibility Home Run | #AI #GenerativeAI
https://www.lifewire.com/why-midjourneys-new-image-to-text-generator-is-an-accessibility-home-run-7377344


For my latest story, I got to correspond with a Ukranian developer with cerebral palsy who uses ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot to communicate and code. It was wild, because I don't think our interaction would have been possible just a few years ago.

Beyond that, though, #GenerativeAI is removing barriers for him to code and contribute. He even released his first #OpenSource project recently sharing his experience!

https://github.com/readme/featured/open-source-accessibility

#ChatGPT #GitHubCopilot #GitHub #A11y