I'm not teaching for a while, so #TechEthicsInTheNews has just become my own collection of news articles, but I'll be keeping it up so figure I might as well continue to share! Anyway, recent stuff... Eric Schmidt thinks the tech industry should regulate itself; the EU AI Act is moving forward; Twitter blocks content in Turkey; fanfiction data scraping for AI; Facebook privacy bug; growing concerns about AI-generated disinformation leading up to the 2024 U.S. elections... https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nHgRYtNQ_VeMzycayrpfGs1UFjw_-gipMcdH-SFgnTo/edit#gid=652166902
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@cfiesler The EU AI Act is quite the thing. It seems to legislate against LORAs, which is a way in which smaller groups can much more cheaply add extra training to a ML model, instead of having to build a full model from scratch. This is important because they allow more custom models to be developed for more specific purposes, by independent groups, rather than the hegemony of large corporate interests. There might be good things in the act, but some pretty terrible ideas too.