MEDIA BITS AND BYTES – FOCUS ON AI  
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January 23, 2024
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_ The age of artificial intelligence is upon us _

, Electronic Frontier Foundation

 

* AI Reflections
* OpenAI Opens to the Military
* The AI Fraud Act
* Existential Risk
* We Made Them Look
* 4700 Art Styles
* A.I.’s _Groundhog Day_
* Mehdi Hasan’s Exit From MSNBC
* DeSantis’s Media Mishaps
* _LA Times_ Walkout

AI REFLECTIONS
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By Julia Lesage
Jump Cut

ChatGPT was released, grew rapidly in its user base, drew many
critics, and the nation saw a  massive subsequent venture-capital
investment in this kind of AI. On a personal level, I saw how ChatGPT
suddenly reshaped the work life of many writers and teachers around
me, and the strikes in Hollywood made it clear that as a media
professional I had to learn more about AI.

OPENAI OPENS TO THE MILITARY
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By Brett Wilkins
Common Dreams

ChatGPT maker OpenAI this week quietly removed language from its usage
policy that prohibited military use of its technology, a move with
serious implications given the increase use of artificial intelligence
on battlefields including Gaza.

THE AI FRAUD ACT
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By Corynne McSherry
Electronic Frontier Foundation

If Congress really wants to protect performers and ordinary people
from deceptive or exploitative uses of their images and voice, it
should take a precise, careful and practical approach that avoids
potential collateral damage to free expression, competition, and
innovation. The No AI FRAUD Act comes nowhere near the mark.

EXISTENTIAL RISK
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By Kelsey Piper
Vox

A survey of machine learning researchers found half of the
researchers said they considered it overwhelmingly likely that
powerful AI would lead to human extinction. In what other field do
moderate, middle-of-the-road researchers claim that the development of
a more powerful technology — one they are directly working on —
has a 5 percent chance of ending human life on Earth forever?

WE MADE THEM LOOK
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By Silvia Ayuso
El País

Marathon closed-door negotiations in December were the longest of this
type of meeting in the history of the EU, and allowed the
world’s first complete artificial intelligence law to be agreed.
It is a regulation that seeks above all to ensure that foundational
models of generative artificial intelligence (AI) that may pose a
systemic risk do not violate fundamental rights. 

4700 ART STYLES
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By Marlon Ettinger
Daily Dot

A filing in a lawsuit against two artificial intelligence image
generation companies includes a list of around 4,700 names of artists
and art styles which were included in the training corpus for
Midjourney. The lawsuit, which was first filed in the beginning of
2023, is a class action suit that claims that AI image generators
“are 21st century collage tools that violate the rights of millions
of artists.”

A.I.’S _GROUNDHOG DAY_
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By Jane C. Hu
Slate

While the rush to _do something about A.I._ might feel new, it’s
really just a continuation of a yearslong conversation about the
unintended consequences and harms of algorithms. A.I. is just the
latest “genie” that won’t go back into the bottle, the newest
technological point of no return.

MEHDI HASAN’S EXIT FROM MSNBC
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By Nathan J Robinson
Novara Media

American journalists should be united in defending one of their own
and in protecting dissident voices. It’s worth reflecting on what we
lose by the departure of Hasan from MSNBC. Think of the interviews
that won’t be done, the questions that won’t be asked, the lies
that will go unchallenged. Hasan’s work was important. It needed to
be done. He’s also not the only one being punished.

DESANTIS’S MEDIA MISHAPS
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By Jon Allsop
Columbia Journalism Review

DeSantis’s pivot to greater engagement with the mainstream media
would run up against self-inflicted limitations. Media-bashing was so
central to his political appeal that he couldn't just cast it aside.
Meanwhile, the voters receptive to his going on CNN were never likely
to embrace his hard-right message, while those receptive to his
message were never likely to embrace DeSantis going on CNN. 

_LA TIMES_ WALKOUT
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By Ted Johnson
Deadline

_Los Angeles Times _journalists conducted the first newsroom union
work stoppage in the 142-year history of the newspaper, one day after
management disclosed that substantial layoffs could be coming amid a
widening budget deficit.

* artificial intelligence
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* OpenAI
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* US military
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* No AI Fraud Act
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* European Union
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* Ibán García del Blanco
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* regulation
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* Artists
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* Mehdi Hasan
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* MSNBC
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* Ron DeSantis
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* media campaigning
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* Los Angeles Times
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* walkout
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* CHATGPT
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