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Internet Ethics

Back in 2016, the American Philosophical Association hosted a meeting titled “#AI Automation and the Good Life.” The event intro reads like it could have been written yesterday (just changing one name): https://apaonline.org/general/custom.asp?page=AIAuto #ethics #tech #highered

“Stable Diffusion kickstarted an era of rapid development in image-synthesis technology… [&] strong backlash among artists and corporate entities, some of which have sued Stability AI. Stability’s move into language models could inspire similar results”:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/04/stable-diffusion-for-language-stability-launches-open-source-ai-chatbot/

“Today’s #AI breakthroughs couldn’t happen without the availability of the digital stockpiles and landfills of info, ideas and feelings that the #internet prompted people to produce.
But we produced all that stuff for one another, not for AI.” #ethics #tech #data

Congress gets 40 ChatGPT Plus licenses to start experimenting with generative AI

The House of Representatives’ digital service has already distributed the licenses among lawmakers’ offices.