Category «AI»

Google hit with lawsuit alleging it stole data from millions of users to train AI tools

CNN: “…The complaint alleges that Google “has been secretly stealing everything ever created and shared on the internet by hundreds of millions of Americans” and using this data to train its AI products, such as its chatbot Bard. The complaint also claims Google has taken “virtually the entirety of our digital footprint,” including “creative and …

Subjects: AI, Copyright, Cybercrime, E-Records, Intellectual Property, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy, Search Engines

Google’s Searchbot Could Put Me Out of a Job

The Atlantic [free link]: “Google Search, like the rest of the internet, is pivoting to generative AI. The first step is Search Generative Experience, an experimental tool currently available as a public beta. Instead of sending you off to other corners of the web, more search results appear within Google. Sort of like ChatGPT, it …

Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines, Social Media

JournalistsToolbox.ai

Created by Mike Reilley, Founder and Editor of Journalist’s Toolbox Ai: “A few years ago, I was doing a digital tools training for a group of journalists in Phoenix. One of the attendees took me to task for saying that a surge of AI tools would be coming in the next few years. “Google uses …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management

“Shadow libraries” at heart of mounting copyright lawsuits against OpenAI

Quartz: “…Shadow libraries are online databases that provide access to millions of books and articles that are out of print, hard to obtain, and paywalled. Many of these databases, which began appearing online around 2008, originated in Russia, which has a long tradition of sharing forbidden books, according to the magazine Reason. Soon enough, these …

Subjects: AI, Copyright, Economy, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

America’s first law regulating AI bias in hiring takes effect this week

Quartz: “Artificial intelligence isn’t simply changing how we do our jobs: It’s also deciding whether we get jobs at all. Companies are increasingly incorporating algorithmic tools into their hiring processes, from software that reads our resumes to AI bots that score our first interviews. Now in New York City, new legislation is being used to determine …

Subjects: AI, Economy, Government Documents, Legal Research

AI-Text Detection Tools are Really Easy to Fool

MIT Technology Review [free link]: “Debora Weber-Wulff, a professor of media and computing at the University of Applied Sciences, HTW Berlin, worked with a group of researchers from a variety of universities to assess the ability of 14 tools, including Turnitin, GPT Zero, and Compilatio, to detect text written by OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Most of these …

Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, July 8, 2023

Via LLRX –  Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, July 8, 2023 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the …

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Data Governance, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines, Social Media

Don’t Use A.I. to Cheat in School. It’s Better for Studying

The New York Times – Generative A.I. tools can annotate long documents, make flashcards, and produce practice quizzes. “…First, let’s explore one of the most daunting studying tasks: reading and annotating long papers. Some A.I. tools, such as Humata.AI, Wordtune Read and various plug-ins inside ChatGPT, act as research assistants that will summarize documents for …

Subjects: AI, Education, Knowledge Management, Libraries

Nine British Banks Sign Up to New AI Tool for Tackling Scams

Bloomberg [alt free link]: “Mastercard Inc. is selling a new artificial intelligence-powered tool that helps banks more effectively spot if their customers are trying to send money to fraudsters.  Nine of the UK’s biggest banks, including Lloyds Banking Group Plc, Natwest Group Plc and Bank of Scotland Plc, have signed up to use the Consumer …

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation

Scaling Trust on the Web

“Risk and harm are set to scale exponentially and may strangle the opportunities generational technologies create. We have a narrow window and opportunity to leverage decades of hard won lessons and invest in reinforcing human dignity and societal resilience globally. That which occurs offline will occur online, and increasingly there is no choice but to …

Subjects: AI, Civil Liberties, Internet, Knowledge Management