Is ChatGPT just a Copycat?
[Straits Times] As ChatGPT turns one year old, there are growing questions about the way in which it draws upon creative works to compete with the authors of those very same works. Artificial intelligence (AI) has always depended on access to data. Today’s large language models (LLMs) are trained on, essentially, the entire Internet. Much […] more…
The Tragedy of AI Governance
[Just Security] This should be the golden age of AI governance. But words and actions are running in opposite directions. Beginning around 2016, a proliferation of guides, frameworks, and principles sought to articulate ground rules for AI. The trend began in western technology companies, but quickly spread across sectors and around the world. States soon got in on the […] more…
Good Models Borrow, Great Models Steal: Intellectual Property Rights and Generative AI
[Policy & Society Journal] Two critical policy questions will determine the impact of generative AI on the knowledge economy and the creative sector. The first concerns how we think about the training of such models — in particular, whether the creators or owners of the data that are “scraped” (lawfully or unlawfully, with or without […] more…
