Americans!

Marsha Blackburn, obviously angered by KOSA stalling and wanting to appease Trump and music/movie industry lobbyists, introduced a bill (TRUMP AMERICA AI Act) right before winter recess that does the following:

-Neuters Section 230 by adding a "Bad Samaritan" provision that would make platforms liable for “facilitating or soliciting third-party content that violates federal criminal law.” Section 230 already has an exemption for this!

-Essentially shoves in the NO FAKES Act's provisions of mandating a) taking down speech upon receipt of a notice; b) keeping down any recurring instance—meaning, adopt inevitably overbroad replica filters on top of the already deeply flawed copyright filters; c) taking down and filtering tools that might have been used to make the image; and d) unmasking the user who uploaded the material based on nothing more than the say so of person who was allegedly “replicated.”

-Essentially shoves in all of the harmful provisions in the Senate version of KOSA ("duty of care" and all that).

-Completely upends copyright law by effectively wiping out fair use, creating a new form of copyright infringement specifically for AI-generated works, giving the FTC a role in enforcing copyright law, and revamping how collective licensing works.

In short: It's essentially every bad internet bill rolled into one omnibus bill.

Apparently, our lawmakers can't got more then 5 minutes without introducing more mass censorship legislation. It's full on war of attrition, shove a bunch of shit through in hopes something passes.

Call your Senators and Representatives ASAP!

https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member

#Privacy #FreeSpeech #Censorship #Section230 #DigitalRights #Internet #Copyright #SocialMedia #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #GenAI #GenerativeAI #US #UnitedStates

Americans!

Marsha Blackburn, obviously angered by KOSA stalling and wanting to appease Trump and music/movie industry lobbyists, introduced a bill (TRUMP AMERICA AI Act) right before winter recess that does the following:

-Neuters Section 230 by adding a "Bad Samaritan" provision that would make platforms liable for “facilitating or soliciting third-party content that violates federal criminal law.” Section 230 already has an exemption for this!

-Essentially shoves in the NO FAKES Act's provisions of mandating a) taking down speech upon receipt of a notice; b) keeping down any recurring instance—meaning, adopt inevitably overbroad replica filters on top of the already deeply flawed copyright filters; c) taking down and filtering tools that might have been used to make the image; and d) unmasking the user who uploaded the material based on nothing more than the say so of person who was allegedly “replicated.”

-Essentially shoves in all of the harmful provisions in the Senate version of KOSA ("duty of care" and all that).

-Completely upends copyright law by effectively wiping out fair use, creating a new form of copyright infringement specifically for AI-generated works, giving the FTC a role in enforcing copyright law, and revamping how collective licensing works.

In short: It's essentially every bad internet bill rolled into one omnibus bill.

Apparently, our lawmakers can't got more then 5 minutes without introducing more mass censorship legislation. It's full on war of attrition, shove a bunch of shit through in hopes something passes.

Call your Senators and Representatives ASAP!

https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member

#Privacy #FreeSpeech #Censorship #Section230 #DigitalRights #Internet #Copyright #SocialMedia #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #GenAI #GenerativeAI #US #UnitedStates

I detest today's "AI" / LLMs [1] for many reasons, primarily ethical and moral. At the same time, I am fascinated by the misuse of said generative LLMs.

In particular, I have seen a number of essays recently describing people misusing LLM output or relying on the LLM to produce most or all of an #assignment of some sort - even when they know they mustn't use the LLM in this fashion.

Most of these have been in the context of #student use of LLMs to write assignments, even when they have been warned not to. One particularly egregious example was described by a university #professor, where he created an assignment in which it was easy to tell if the submitted work had been created with an LLM or not. A majority of the students - I don't recall the exact proportion, but it was something like 75%, a supermajority - used LLM. He discussed this with the class, and had those who had generated the assignment with LLM write a short essay (or apologia) -- and then found that something like half of them had used LLM to do *that* assigned work.

Some professors have described their students as having their #thinking, #language, and #analysis #skills atrophy to the point of inability to do even basic work. It seems to me that it is like #addiction, in that they keep doing it despite knowing it is (a) forbidden, (b) easily detected, and (c) self-destructive.

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[1] LLMs are in no way Artificial Intelligence. Calling them "AI" is a category error.

#AI #LLM #misuse #GenerativeAI

I detest today's "AI" / LLMs [1] for many reasons, primarily ethical and moral. At the same time, I am fascinated by the misuse of said generative LLMs.

In particular, I have seen a number of essays recently describing people misusing LLM output or relying on the LLM to produce most or all of an #assignment of some sort - even when they know they mustn't use the LLM in this fashion.

Most of these have been in the context of #student use of LLMs to write assignments, even when they have been warned not to. One particularly egregious example was described by a university #professor, where he created an assignment in which it was easy to tell if the submitted work had been created with an LLM or not. A majority of the students - I don't recall the exact proportion, but it was something like 75%, a supermajority - used LLM. He discussed this with the class, and had those who had generated the assignment with LLM write a short essay (or apologia) -- and then found that something like half of them had used LLM to do *that* assigned work.

Some professors have described their students as having their #thinking, #language, and #analysis #skills atrophy to the point of inability to do even basic work. It seems to me that it is like #addiction, in that they keep doing it despite knowing it is (a) forbidden, (b) easily detected, and (c) self-destructive.

1/x

[1] LLMs are in no way Artificial Intelligence. Calling them "AI" is a category error.

#AI #LLM #misuse #GenerativeAI

Heads up, visual artists!

Researchers from the Carnegie Mellon University are doing a survey among artists working professionally about how they have or haven't been impacted by generative AI, and they are looking for participants.

Register here for the survey: https://cmu.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2fVHytrlM2HC47k

I don't know them but artist Karla Ortiz vouches for them on Bluesky, this is a legit thing.

You don't have to be a US citizen to take part.

#NoAI #GenerativeAI #HumanArt #ArtistsOnMastodon