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Stable Biases: Stable Diffusion may amplify biases in its training data.
Stable Diffusion may amplify biases in its training data in ways that promote deeply ingrained social stereotypes.
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Making Government Multilingual: This app is bridging the language gap between the Indian government and its citizens
An app is bridging the language gap between the Indian government and its citizens, who speak a wide variety of languages. Jugalbandi helps Indians learn about government services, which typically are described online in English and Hindi, in their native tongues.
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The Secret Life of Data Labelers: The concerning working conditions of data labelers
The business of supplying labeled data for building AI systems is a global industry. But the people who do the labeling face challenges that impinge on the quality of both their work and their lives.
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Washington Gears Up to Regulate: The plan to educate the U.S. Senate on AI
United States lawmakers are getting a crash course in AI. Chuck Schumer, the majority leader in the U.S. Senate, announced an unusual plan to educate legislators who are crafting AI regulations, The New York Times reported. It could lead to legislation “within months,” he said.
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Generated Data Fouls Human Datasets: Some crowdworkers are using ChatGPT to generate data.
The crowdworkers you hire to provide human data may use AI to produce it. Researchers at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne found that written material supplied by workers hired via Amazon Mechanical Turk showed signs of being generated by ChatGPT.
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Lawyers, Beware LLMs: Attorney faces disciplinary action for using ChatGPT's fictional brief.
A United States federal judge threw ChatGPT’s legal research out of court. An attorney who used ChatGPT to generate a legal brief faces disciplinary action after opposing lawyers discovered that the brief referred to fictional cases and quotations invented by the chatbot.
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More Tesla Crashes: Government data shows increase in Tesla autonomous collisions.
Tesla cars operating semi-autonomously have had many more collisions than previously reported, and the rate of such incidents has risen, government data shows.
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Training Data Free-For-All: Japan's AI data laws, explained
Amid rising questions about the fairness and legality of using publicly available information to train AI models, Japan affirmed that machine learning engineers can use any data they find.
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Taught by a Bot: How some schools use AI tutors in the classroom
While some schools resist their students’ use of chatbots, others are inviting them into the classroom. Some primary and secondary schools in the United States are testing an automated tutor built by online educator Khan Academy.
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AI Risk and the Resource Curse: Concentration of AI in the hands of a few could undermine human rights. The solution is to make it available to everyone.
AI risks are in the air — from speculation that AI, decades or centuries from now, could bring about human extinction to ongoing problems like bias and fairness.
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LAION Roars: The story of LAION, the dataset behind Stable Diffusion
The largest dataset for training text-to-image generators was assembled by volunteers for roughly $10,000. Now it’s implicated in fights over whether copyrighted works can be used for training.
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Falcon Ascends: Falcon, the new open source commercial LLM, explained
A team in the United Arab Emirates, a seven-state federation on the Arabian Peninsula, built the latest top-performing open source large language model.