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Kate Crawford

@katecrawford
44 posts
2024-03-31
👉Today we're launching this investigation into LAION-5B, the blockbuster dataset behind Midjourney and Stable Diffusion. It's a deep dive into how the dataset was made, and where the images come from. The brilliant @christo_buschek & @blprnt follow the models all the way down.
2024-03-31 View on X
Knowing Machines

Inside LAION-5B, an AI training dataset of 5B+ images that has been unavailable for download after researchers found 3,000+ instances of CSAM in December 2023

All  —  The  —  Way  —  Down  —  This one is sooo good.  I recommend this to anyone playing with #AI to understand the biases and the complexities.  Oh and the discussion of alt te...

2024-03-30
👉Today we're launching this investigation into LAION-5B, the blockbuster dataset behind Midjourney and Stable Diffusion. It's a deep dive into how the dataset was made, and where the images come from. The brilliant @christo_buschek & @blprnt follow the models all the way down.
2024-03-30 View on X
Knowing Machines

Inside LAION-5B, an AI training dataset of 5B+ images that has been unavailable for download after researchers found 3,000+ instances of CSAM in December 2023

If you want to make a really big AI model — the kind that can generate images or do your homework, or build this website …

2023-07-22
The White House got voluntary commitments from tech companies to self-manage AI risks. Interesting notes include: AI watermarks, not disclosing model weights, having external audits, and prioritizing research on societal risks. Much weaker than the EU. https://www.whitehouse.gov/...
2023-07-22 View on X
The Verge

OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon, Anthropic, and Inflection make voluntary AI promises to the White House, like cybersecurity investment and watermarking

White House Pranav Dixit / Business Today : OpenAI, Google, Meta, Amazon and others pledge to watermark AI content for safety Ryan Morrison / Tech Monitor : White House secures AI ...

2023-07-19
OpenAI says it will follow public opinion on whether GPT4 should include face, emotion and gender recognition. Which public? In which nations? Whose opinions will count? https://www.nytimes.com/...
2023-07-19 View on X
New York Times

Due to safety concerns like facial recognition abuse, OpenAI hasn't widely shipped GPT-4's “multimodal” capability that can respond to images and text prompts

An advanced version of ChatGPT can analyze images and is already helping the blind.

2023-07-05
Gallium, of course, is a critical material for semiconductors. And China produces 80% of it. If you listen closely, you can hear the emergency meetings in session. https://www.ft.com/...
2023-07-05 View on X
Financial Times

South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan are assessing the fallout from China's limits on chipmaking chemicals gallium and germanium; Japan imported $203.2M worth in 2022

2023-06-08
Whoa. Adobe is offering *full* legal indemnification for copyright lawsuits over generated images that enterprise users produce in Firefly. Their model is trained on licensed & out of copyright images, which others don't do - so it's a big throw-down. https://www.fastcompany.com/ ...
2023-06-08 View on X
Fast Company

Adobe rolls out Firefly to businesses and offers “full indemnification” for copyright infringement lawsuits over any content created in the generative AI tool

Adobe is so confident in Firefly's ability to respect creators' copyrighted images that it'll legally compensate businesses …

2023-04-20
This Post investigation underscores why studying training data is so important. Even post-filtering, Google's widely used C4 dataset is riddled with white supremacist, anti-trans, pro-Jan 6 riots and QAnon pizzagate content. That's just for starters. .https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2023-04-20 View on X
Washington Post

Analysis: Google's C4 dataset, used to train LLMs like Meta's LLaMA, has troubling content from 4chan, Kiwi Farms, white supremacist site Stormfront, and more

AI chatbots have exploded in popularity over the past four months, stunning the public with their awesome abilities …

2023-03-23
This is a significant privacy breach. People are encouraged to use ChatGPT as a personal tool, so that means everything from sensitive work tasks to health questions have been exposed to other users. https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-23 View on X
Reuters

Sam Altman says OpenAI has fixed a “significant issue” in ChatGPT after a bug in an open-source library let some users see titles of other users' chat history

ChatGPT-owner OpenAI said on Wednesday it had fixed a bug that caused a “significant issue” of a small set of users …

2023-03-22
Umm, anyone a little concerned that Bard is saying its training dataset includes... Gmail? I'm assuming that's flat out wrong, otherwise Google is crossing some serious legal boundaries. https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-22 View on X
The Verge

Hands-on with Google's Bard, coming to waitlisted US and UK users: quick, fluid, more constrained than Bing, three responses per query, disclaimers, and more

2023-03-15
Crucial section from OpenAI's GPT4 paper: “AI systems will have even greater potential to reinforce entire ideologies, worldviews, truths and untruths, and to cement them or lock them in, foreclosing future contestation, reflection, and improvement.” https://cdn.openai.com/...
2023-03-15 View on X
OpenAI

OpenAI debuts GPT-4, claiming the model “surpasses ChatGPT in its advanced reasoning capabilities”, available in ChatGPT Plus and as an API that has a waitlist

Following the research path from GPT, GPT-2, and GPT-3, our deep learning approach leverages more data and more computation …

2022-10-27
“In a first of its kind notice, Britain's Information Commissioner's Office issued a searing warning to companies against using so-called “emotional analysis” tech, arguing it's “immature” and that the risks...far outweigh any potential benefits.” More 👇 https://gizmodo.com/...
2022-10-27 View on X
Gizmodo

The UK's ICO warns organizations about the risks of using “emotional analysis” tech, and plans to publish its biometric guidance in spring 2023

Mack DeGeurin / Gizmodo :

2022-06-24
Meanwhile, in the imminent dystopia category https://www.reuters.com/...
2022-06-24 View on X
Reuters

Amazon is working on letting Alexa mimic any voice after hearing less than a minute of audio, as a way to “make the memories last” of deceased family members

your dead relative's James Hennessy / The Terminal : Art, death and imagined conversations Argam Artashyan / Gizchina : So Will The New Alexa Feature Resurrect The Dead Or Not? Kat...

2022-06-23
Meanwhile, in the imminent dystopia category https://www.reuters.com/...
2022-06-23 View on X
Reuters

Amazon is working on letting Alexa mimic any voice after hearing less than a minute of audio, as a way to “make the memories last” of deceased family members

Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) wants to give customers the chance to make Alexa, the company's voice assistant, sound just like their grandmother — or anyone else.

2021-12-03
So wonderful to see @timnitGebru launch her new research institute today! Giant congratulations 🥳🎉 You can read more about the issues that DAIR is focusing on here: https://www.dair-institute.org/ ... and read about the context here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2021-12-03 View on X
Wired

AI researcher Timnit Gebru, who left Google last year, launches Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research, an institute focused on the responsible use of AI

The researcher, who says Google fired her a year ago, wants to ask questions about responsible use of artificial intelligence.

2021-11-05
So Facebook is deleting one billion facial recognition scans, but it's keeping DeepFace, the model that is trained on all those faces. Note that “the company has also not ruled out incorporating facial recognition into future products.” Very meta. 👀 https://twitter.com/...
2021-11-05 View on X
Vox

Meta will retain some of its facial recognition systems, including its DeepFace model, and plans to incorporate biometrics into its metaverse products

Rebecca Heilweil / Vox :

2021-11-04
So Facebook is deleting one billion facial recognition scans, but it's keeping DeepFace, the model that is trained on all those faces. Note that “the company has also not ruled out incorporating facial recognition into future products.” Very meta. 👀 https://twitter.com/...
2021-11-04 View on X
Vox

Meta will retain some of its facial recognition systems, including its DeepFace model, and plans to incorporate biometrics into its metaverse products

The social network is scaling back facial recognition, but similar technology could show up in the metaverse.

2021-11-03
So Facebook is deleting one billion facial recognition scans, but it's keeping DeepFace, the model that is trained on all those faces. Note that “the company has also not ruled out incorporating facial recognition into future products.” Very meta. 👀 https://twitter.com/...
2021-11-03 View on X
New York Times

Meta plans to shut down Facebook's decade-old facial recognition system this month, deleting the face scan data of 1B+ users following legal and regulatory woes

Saying it wants “to find the right balance” with the technology, the social network will delete the face scan data of more than one billion users.

2021-04-21
The @EU_Commission's final proposal for an Artificial Intelligence Act is here. Some examples: AI systems are prohibited if they violate human rights, do general social scoring for authorities, use live remote biometrics in public for policing. 👀 https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/ ...
2021-04-21 View on X
Wall Street Journal

EU proposes strict AI rules, regulating “high-risk” uses such as loan applications, with non-compliant companies fined up to 6% of annual global revenues

EU is proposing one of the first laws globally to regulate the use of artificial intelligence for applications like hiring and policing

2021-04-11
The Amazon fight is bigger than Bessemer. It's a harbinger of a broader conflict, reinforced by algorithmic management, and amplified by the pandemic. And it isn't going away. My op-ed in today's @washingtonpost. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2021-04-11 View on X
About Amazon

Amazon thanks workers for voting against unionizing, says less than 16% voted to join the union and counters the union's claims that Amazon won by intimidation

Labor leaders & progressive activists say they intend to escalate both the ground war & air war against Amazon after the failed union election More than 1,000 Amazon workers across...

2021-03-08
This is the right take on NFTs, the First Tweet, and digital heritage preservation, from a curator who knows her stuff 👇 https://twitter.com/...
2021-03-08 View on X
The Verge

After Jack Dorsey promoted an auction on the site Valuables for an NFT of his very first tweet, the bids for “just setting up my twttr” reach $2.5M