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Synchroma May 27, 2023

Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)

When your business model relies on theft and you don't like proposed regulations that would expose that theft ... that's a pretty good sign the regulations are on the right track.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/25/23737116/openai-ai-regulation-eu-ai-act-cease-operating

OpenAI says it could ‘cease operating’ in the EU if it can’t comply with future regulation

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has warned that the company could pull its services from the EU if it finds upcoming regulations too onerous. The EU AI Act is currently being finalized by lawmakers and should become law next year.

The Verge

Scott Matter May 27, 2023

Apparently 2 of the SCOTUS justices are happy to end the existence of practically all regulation of business, so…

ThomasAPowell May 27, 2023

@emilymbender I posted this the other day as I noted the squeals of Sam and others https://fosstodon.org/@thomasapowell/110431045997476056 I think you might enjoy it.

ThomasAPowell (@[email protected])

I hear the cries of the Uber Capitalists in the tech space & they go a little something like this… How can we make crazy money if we can't exploit your privacy? How can we make crazy money if we can't demand all your attention? How do you expect us to make crazy money if we can't steal all your content for our own uses!?! How can we make crazy money if we are expected to keep from spreading hate or misinformation? How can we make crazy money if we have to abide by *YOUR* norms or laws!?!

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requiem 🦫May 27, 2023

@emilymbender lucky EU!

Neil Hargreaves May 27, 2023

@emilymbender I'd be interested to hear your view on how Google Books will impact AI / LLMs. I get the feeling that the legal settlement for that particular act of mass IP theft might need to be revisited.

Kevin Russell May 27, 2023

If it is general theft, and the theft cant stop, maybe the way to stop the theft, is end the ownership by theives.

Define AI as a regulated public good, a publicly owned utility, myriad publically owned utilitiies, where because it is intrinsically stolen its illegal to privatize its profits, and mandate that its use to raise all boats.

Democracy is a good place to look, when you run into theft and tech change.

Let's find a general public licence for all AI

Will and the Fox May 27, 2023

@emilymbender Open AI made already a u-turn. They won't leave Europe. https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-has-no-plans-leave-europe-ceo-2023-05-26/

It's amazing how Open AI behaves like a flag in the wind. At the congressional hearing, they were in favor of regulating AI. Probably not their AI.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/16/technology/openai-altman-artificial-intelligence-regulation.html

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI says has no plans to leave Europe

OpenAI has no plans to leave Europe, CEO Sam Altman said on Friday, reversing a threat made earlier this week to leave the region if it becomes too hard to comply with upcoming laws on artificial intelligence.

Reuters

Synchroma May 27, 2023

@emilymbender 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼

Georg Öttl May 27, 2023

Openai isn't that open and should be under regulation soon.

Enrico May 27, 2023

@emilymbender you’re stealing all meaning from the word theft.

E. Drake Kajioka May 27, 2023

@emilymbender "there are technical limits to what's possible" - is a statement of priority, not possibility ... another indication this is on the right track.

Rick Mycroft May 28, 2023

@emilymbender Does he really think that threat will work against the EU? Thiel-flavored tech bros are the worst self-absorbed idiots.

Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle May 28, 2023

Imagine if medicines or food had to disclose their ingredients, or prove to be safe and sound. That would stifle innovation and be very bad for business!

Adam Beer (old account)May 30, 2023

We will try to comply, but if we can’t comply we will cease operating.

…Yes, Sam; that's how laws work .

Assegaia Jun 4, 2023

@emilymbender A lot of really dumb takes here.

Assegaia Jun 19, 2023

@emilymbender As with piracy, this is not theft. Nothing was taken away. A semantic very important destinction. It is about licences and what constitues a fair use or price for it.