Notices by Mark Riedl (riedl@sigmoid.social)

Sounds like someone is trying to justify scraping the internet for training data

A play in two acts

“Google and Microsoft’s chatbots are already citing one another in a misinformation shitshow”

https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/22/23651564/google-microsoft-bard-bing-chatbots-misinformation

"In AI arms race, ethics may be the first casualty"

https://www.axios.com/2023/01/31/chatgpt-ai-arms-race-ethics-competition

This is quite the exposé!

I knew that OpenAI has been using crowd workers for at least the last two years to build instruct-tuning datasets for #ChatGPT. I didn’t know they were also outsourcing violence, hate speech, and sexual abuse labeling to Kenyans for $2/hour.

The work is apparently so traumatic that the outsourcing company, Sama, has cut ties with OpenAI.

https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/

Our AI advances are being built on the backs of vulnerable people, and the spoils are going to the wealthy.

The people behind the Github Copilot lawsuit have filed suit against Stability AI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt for copyright infringement

https://stablediffusionlitigation.com/