One day left!
aipolicy
Only 2 days left to sign this official government e-petition demanding that the Minister of AI, Evan Solomon, give Canadians rights over their likeness and provide enforcement tools for taking down deepfakes.
Please sign and share before March 4th!
https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7002
#Deepfakes #AI #AIpolicy #Privacy #DigitalPrivacy #CDNpoli #Canada
Discussions continue in our #AI policy discussion. But I'm reaching my own conclusions on the ethics. Which has always been the main driver of why I contribute to Free Software.
What good is productivity on the backs of bad morals?
![Thanks cfcurtis, we can actually see from the Blender discussion above that the major issues are not technical, but political and deeply involve the reputation of the project. This is why this issue is for the PLC and not for the dev team itself.
There is a political message being presented when an organisation like Fedora or Blender states that they are neutral on the behaviour of contributors. If all of our contributors were nasty racists, but hid it, would we make a document saying that racists are welcome to contribute as long as they disclose what kind of racist they are? They're going to be racists anyway, and the "cat is out of the bag" and new developers might not want to contributor to an anti-racist project so we better just say it's ok.
This might sound absurd, that a social bigotry can't possibly relate to a technology; but all speech is political. Even what we say through the technology we make and how we make it. These generative tools as they stand today are anti-social, anti-democratic and anti-worker in ways that cause just as much harm as bigotries and other things we forbid. The only difference is that their harms are hidden from us, they effect people out there in the wide world and not our friends here inside the project. Is that enough? ... [continues in link]](/proxy/post_attachment/59178/012b3da186.png "Thanks cfcurtis, we can actually see from the Blender discussion above that the major issues are not technical, but political and deeply involve the reputation of the project. This is why this issue is for the PLC and not for the dev team itself.
There is a political message being presented when an organisation like Fedora or Blender states that they are neutral on the behaviour of contributors. If all of our contributors were nasty racists, but hid it, would we make a document saying that racists are welcome to contribute as long as they disclose what kind of racist they are? They're going to be racists anyway, and the \"cat is out of the bag\" and new developers might not want to contributor to an anti-racist project so we better just say it's ok.
This might sound absurd, that a social bigotry can't possibly relate to a technology; but all speech is political. Even what we say through the technology we make and how we make it. These generative tools as they stand today are anti-social, anti-democratic and anti-worker in ways that cause just as much harm as bigotries and other things we forbid. The only difference is that their harms are hidden from us, they effect people out there in the wide world and not our friends here inside the project. Is that enough? ... [continues in link]")
Yesterday, Senators Wyden and Booker and Representative Clarke along with 14 other co-sponsors re-introduced the Algorithmic Accountability Act. While Congressional legislation may not seem super exciting, I am HYPED about this bill, and I wanted to share some of the reasons why.
https://posts.bcavello.com/why-im-still-hyped-about-the-algorithmic-accountability-act/
#TagZone #AlgorithmicAccountability #AIPolicy #TechPolicy #USCongress
🎙️ Join us for FUTURE KNOWLEDGE #PODCAST LIVE RECORDING: AI TOOLS, NOT GODS
Featuring Caroline De Cock, LL.M., Head of Research at information labs & a leading voice on digital rights, AI governance, and technology policy. A clear-eyed look at how AI narratives influence real laws.
📆 Tues Feb 10
🕙 10 AM PT
📍 Online event
🎟️ https://blog.archive.org/event/book-talk-ai-tools-not-gods/
Co-hosted by @internetarchive & @AuthorsAlliance.
