@Null some possible news for the Friday show, if the topic interests you.
On Wednesday the FTC held a hearing on generative AI. It is too long and boring to play on stream, but it contains a lot of sneeding and handwringing from representatives of various guilds, unions and organizations.
20:30 - a sci-fi magazine publisher who is sad that he's getting a lot of ChatGPT-generated story submissions and the quality is not very good!! FTC, please stop people from sending low quality spam stories to us!
23:43 - when trying to detect generated stories, foreign authors are more likely to get false-positive flagged, and that's simply not diverse or equitable. Also he complains that rooting out AI entries is hard work and his workload has doubled and he's exhausted
29:25 - author's guild pajeet who complains on behalf of freelance writers that they've already seen their business cut in half or worse.
35:12 - former author's guild president grandpa who is suing openAI because he asked chatGPT for information about really minor characters in his books that he swears nobody has ever said anything about online, so that 100% proves his books must've been trained on.
42:50 - the president of voice actors tells a story that several prominent voice actors had their voices stolen and used to dox their own addresses and then say gamer words!
Major audiobook companies are cancelling all their contracts with voice actors and saying they're just going to use elevenlabs moving forward, and when voice actors
are used they're being asked to prove that they didn't just AI generate their own voice to save time.
47:26 - Model Alliance lady who is mad that one of the first mainstream AI models is a fake black woman, and money for the use of that model goes into the pocket of the white guy who made her (digital blackface!). Companies are using POC AI models to present a face of the company that's diverse and inclusive when the model is entirely virtual so there's no actual diversity going on.
50:37 - Karla Ortiz, famous concept artist who among other things designed the look of Benedict's Dr. Strange. She feels so hurt and violated that her work was STOLEN. The most indignant and ranty of the group.
56:25 - another concept artist. He opens his speech by praising how diverse this panel is. Both he and the previous girl are most angry that their personal styles are generated by invoking their name, and then AI works show up online with their name attached in some capacity without consent (because it was used as part of the generation).
1:01:04 - delusional concept artist man demands that future AI tools have built-in compliance tools, that all AI companies should have to pay a retroactive fine for their crimes, and that affected artists should be paid a fee per every single generation done in their name (Greg Rutkowski gonna be fucking rich).
That's about all that was mildly interesting.
Couple the above with Biden's upcoming executive order regarding AI and it seems like things are about to get federally kneecapped, hard.
While Prabhakar wouldn’t get into specifics about what will be in the forthcoming order, she did say it provides a mechanism for “the executive branch stepping out and doing what we need to do.”
“It’ll be broad. It really reflects everything that the president really sees as possible under existing law to get better at managing risks and using the technology,” she said.
Prabhakar said Thursday that it’s “remarkable” how AI has openly become a topic of discussion among the world’s leaders, and many are looking to Biden and the U.S. for guidance.
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