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European Parliament bars lawmakers from using AI tools (www.theregister.com)
 

Data privacy and AI services have not been the greatest of bedfellows. Studies have shown that employees regularly leak company secrets via assistants, and on-device AI services are a focus of vendors amid concerns about exactly what is being sent to the cloud.

The thought of confidential data being sent to an unknown location in the cloud to generate a helpful summary has clearly worried lawmakers, which is why there is a blanket ban. However, the issue has less relevance if the process occurs on the device itself.

GEMA wins against OpenAI on copying song lyrics in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] bignose@awful.systems 5 points 3 months ago

GEMA versus OpenAI. Whoever wins, we all lose.

But I'm still happy to see them fight.

awesome old AI paper Artificial Intelligence Meets Natural Stupidity (PDF, 1976) in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] bignose@awful.systems 2 points 4 months ago

So many of the criticisms here survive essentially unchanged, fifty years later:

If he calls the main loop of his program "UNDERSTAND", he is (until proven innocent) merely begging the question. He may mislead a lot of people, most prominently himself, and enrage a lot of others.[…] If Quillian <1969> had called his program the "Teachable Language Node Net Intersection Finder", he would have saved us some reading. (Except for those of us fanatic about finding the part on teachability.)