Tag: public interest
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Hacker News: Google erases promise not to use AI technology for weapons or surveillance
Source URL: https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/business/google-ai-weapons-surveillance/index.html Source: Hacker News Title: Google erases promise not to use AI technology for weapons or surveillance Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Google has made significant changes to its AI ethics policy, notably removing commitments against using AI for weaponry and surveillance. This shift reflects a growing competition for…
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Hacker News: Copyright Office suggests AI copyright debate was settled in 1965
Source URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/copyright-office-suggests-ai-copyright-debate-was-settled-in-1965/ Source: Hacker News Title: Copyright Office suggests AI copyright debate was settled in 1965 Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The US Copyright Office has issued guidance regarding the authorship rights of humans producing AI-assisted works, asserting that existing laws suffice without the need for new legislation. The guidance…
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The Register: Court docs allege Meta trained its AI models on contentious trove of maybe-pirated content
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/10/meta_libgen_allegation/ Source: The Register Title: Court docs allege Meta trained its AI models on contentious trove of maybe-pirated content Feedly Summary: Did Zuck’s definition of ‘free expression’ just get even broader? Meta allegedly downloaded material from an online source that’s been sued for breaching copyright, because it wanted the material to train its…
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Wired: Nvidia’s $3,000 ‘Personal AI Supercomputer’ Will Let You Ditch the Data Center
Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/nvidia-personal-supercomputer-ces/ Source: Wired Title: Nvidia’s $3,000 ‘Personal AI Supercomputer’ Will Let You Ditch the Data Center Feedly Summary: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang also announced new AI models for robots, self-driving cars, and autonomous agents during a keynote address at CES. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Nvidia’s upcoming launch of…
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Hacker News: Harvard Is Releasing a Free AI Training Dataset
Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/harvard-ai-training-dataset-openai-microsoft/ Source: Hacker News Title: Harvard Is Releasing a Free AI Training Dataset Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Harvard University has released a significant dataset of nearly 1 million public-domain books to aid in training large language models and other AI tools. This initiative is part of efforts to…
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Wired: Harvard Is Releasing a Massive Free AI Training Dataset Funded by OpenAI and Microsoft
Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/harvard-ai-training-dataset-openai-microsoft/ Source: Wired Title: Harvard Is Releasing a Massive Free AI Training Dataset Funded by OpenAI and Microsoft Feedly Summary: The project’s leader says that allowing everyone to access the collection of public-domain books will help “level the playing field” in the AI industry. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Harvard University has…
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Schneier on Security: Trust Issues in AI
Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/12/trust-issues-in-ai.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Trust Issues in AI Feedly Summary: For a technology that seems startling in its modernity, AI sure has a long history. Google Translate, OpenAI chatbots, and Meta AI image generators are built on decades of advancements in linguistics, signal processing, statistics, and other fields going back to…
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Schneier on Security: Trust Issues
Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/12/trust-issues.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Trust Issues Feedly Summary: For a technology that seems startling in its modernity, AI sure has a long history. Google Translate, OpenAI chatbots, and Meta AI image generators are built on decades of advancements in linguistics, signal processing, statistics, and other fields going back to the early…