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"The reason you begin tracking your data is that you have
some uncertainty about yourself that you believe the data
can illuminate. It’s about introspection, reflection, seeing
patterns, and arriving at realizations about who you are
and how you might change."
—Eric Boyd, self-tracker

an article by Natasha D. Schüll, 2019, "The Data-Based Self:
Self-Quantification and the Data-Driven (Good) Life" natashadowschull.org/wp-conten

#USA #AI #AIRegulation #AISafety #SelfRegulation #BigTech: "Overall, there have been some positive changes in the way AI has been built, such as red-teaming practices, watermarks and new ways for industry to share best practices. However, these are only a couple of neat technical solutions to the messy socio-technical problem that is AI harm, and a lot more work is needed. One year on, it is also odd to see the commitments talk about a very particular type of AI safety that focuses on hypothetical risks, such bioweapons, and completely fail to mention consumer protection, nonconsensual deepfakes, data and copyright, and the environmental footprint of AI models. These seem like weird omissions today."

technologyreview.com/2024/07/2

MIT Technology Review · AI companies promised to self-regulate one year ago. What’s changed?By Melissa Heikkilä

#EU #AI #AIAct #AIRegulation #SelfRegulation: "If we have learned anything from the ex-post regulation of social networking services over the past decade that led to the adoption of the DSA, it is that we cannot afford another dominant technological paradigm that is shaped out of society’s sight. Researchers, regulators, and civil society need to be able to assess the impact of AI, and mandatory transparency and documentation are the only truly proven mechanisms to create the conditions for this.

This means the AI Act must include mandatory documentation and transparency requirements for all foundational models, shedding light on how models were trained and what data was used. The information should include data on resource consumption, which is essential for shaping policies that will guarantee the development and deployment of this new wave of technology in the most sustainable way possible rather than exacerbating the already unsustainable resource use of the tech industry.

In this situation, it is important that the European Parliament and the Commission stick to their guns and do not give in to the self-serving rhetoric of a few member states who are acting on the misguided idea that weakening much-needed regulation will somehow give them a leg up in the global race to capture the AI space."

openfuture.eu/blog/the-eu-shou

Open FutureThe EU should not trust AI companies to self-regulate – Open FutureAs the debate over how the AI Act should deal with foundation models reaches a climax, we argue that it would be a mistake to leave this crucial aspect of AI regulation to the AI companies themselves, and that there is indeed a need for mandatory transparency and documentation requirements.

Corporations: just let us regulate ourselves, it’ll be fine…

Also corporations: old.reddit.com/r/youtube/comme

Regulate the absolute living crap out of the these bastards. (But who’s going to when the folks who should be regulating are having drinks with them at the pub every evening and eyeing their next gigs at them?*)

* Did you know Google’s lobbying offices are literally round the corner from the European Parliament?

redditYoutube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox. Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away.Posted in r/youtube by u/vk6_ • 9,525 points and 934 comments

#EU #AI #BigTech #AIAct #SelfRegulation #GPAI: "The three biggest EU countries are pushing for codes of conduct without an initial sanction regime for foundation models rather than prescriptive obligations in the AI rulebook, according to a non-paper seen by Euractiv.

The AI Act is a flagship EU legislation to regulate Artificial Intelligence based on its capacity to cause harm. The file is currently at the last phase of the legislative process, where the EU Commission, Council, and Parliament gather in ‘trilogues’ to hash out the law’s final dispositions.

The negotiations on the world’s first comprehensive AI law have been disrupted by the rise of ChatGPT, a versatile type of AI system known as General Purpose AI, which is built on OpenAI’s powerful foundation model GPT-4.

On 10 November, Euractiv reported that the entire legislation was at risk following mounting opposition from France, which gained support from Germany and Italy in its push against any regulation on foundation models."

euractiv.com/section/artificia

EURACTIV · France, Germany, Italy push for ‘mandatory self-regulation’ for foundation models in EU’s AI lawBy Luca Bertuzzi