Here's a fun AI story: a security researcher noticed that large companies' AI-authored source-code repeatedly referenced a nonexistent library (an AI "hallucination"), so he created a (defanged) malicious library with that name and uploaded it, and thousands of developers automatically downloaded and incorporated it as they compiled the code:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/28/ai_bots_hallucinate_software_packages/

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There's a host of legal risks AI companies and companies that use generative AI are putting themselves in the path of, that we don't talk about enough:

📜 It's pretty clear Section 230, the foundational law enabling today's internet, DOES NOT protect AI-generated content like that from ChatGPT, Claude or Google's generative search experience

🚗💥🚙 Generative AI could also put companies at risk of product liability claims

My deep dive:

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https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-ai-industry-is-steaming-toward-a-legal-iceberg-5d9a6ac1?st=fzthflzxv4l5hgn&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

"If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat, while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would study that monkey to figure out what the heck was wrong with it. When humans do it, we put them on the cover of Forbes."

Nathalie Robin
#Quotes #EmotionalIntelligence

Interview with Jaron Lanier in The Guardian. It’s not a cheery read, but there are many good points in here.

“As we enter an era where nothing means anything because it’s all just about power, intermediation and influence, it’s very hard to put ideas out and very easy for them to come across not as intended,” he said.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/27/jaron-lanier-tech-threat-humanity-twitter-social-media

🧵 Matt Hornsey and I just published a paper in Nature Human Behaviour entitled “A toolkit for understanding and addressing climate scepticism” https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01463-y

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