The Information and Privacy Commissioner is offering to work with the Alberta government on AI regulations.

The minister of technology and innovation says they are “committed to explore “approaches that protect Albertans while enabling the responsible use of AI across the public and private sectors.”

With coming amendments to the Personal Information Protection Act and the Health Information Act in the near future, the commissioner says it’s critical to consider AI.

https://oipc.ab.ca/office-of-the-information-and-privacy-commissioner-publishes-report-to-provincial-government-on-how-to-develop-a-framework-governing-use-of-artificial-intelligence-ai-in-alberta/

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House GOP eyes moratorium on state AI laws – The Washington Post

Democrats, consumer advocates decry push to deregulate the booming industry

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are pushing a legislative package that would roll back state AI laws throughout the country and prohibit states from passing new ones for the next decade.

The AI provisions, which would make the federal government the sole regulator for U.S. tech firms in a booming industry, are part of a broader reconciliation bill that includes top Republican priorities on issues ranging from health care to energy and the environment. The bill, whose text was released Sunday by House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-Kentucky), will be debated in a markup that begins Tuesday afternoon and could stretch into Wednesday or beyond.

While the fiercest debates are likely to center on proposed cuts to Medicaid, the AI portion of the bill drew heavy criticism Monday from consumer advocacy and tech watchdog groups. They called it a giveaway to industry that will enable harmful and discriminatory uses of the emerging technology.

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California Approves AI Laws: Safeguarding Workers, Regulating Deepfakes, and AI Model Safety.

See here - https://techchilli.com/news/california-approves-ai-laws-safeguarding-workers-regulating-deepfakes-and-ai-model-safety/

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One problem lies in the fact that humans can not always discern where the line exists between "plagiarism" and "new images/text generated with AI."

Unless every user checks every image to compare it to known existing images (few if any #AI users do this) and see how much of it was "substantively altered" from an existing protected image (ditto for text), then they could easily be violating copyright unwittingly-- because AI doesn't respect #copyright, nor can its work be copyrighted.

A user can also be given generated material by an AI program, which was already generated for someone else, and not realize it. They can get material already published elsewhere (which is often published deceptively under a human name).

Basically, the problem is that #AIgenerated material is currently a confusing quagmire. It's no wonder #AIArt so quickly despised and reported.

#GenerativeAI ##ChatGPT #OpenAI #AILawsNow #AILaws

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/01/25/business/ai-image-generators-openai-microsoft-midjourney-copyright.html