AI trained on AI garbage spits out AI garbage – MIT Technology Review
“Unfortunately, we have more questions than answers,” says Shumailov. “But it’s clear that it’s important to know where your data… read more
The Myth of the Impartial Machine – Parametric Press
Wide-ranging applications of data science bring utopian proposals of a world free from bias, but in reality, machine learning models… read more
This is how AI image generators see the world – Washington Post
As synthetic images spread across the web, they could give new life to outdated and offensive stereotypes, encoding abandoned ideals… read more
Data Brokers Watch
We curate the largest publicly available database of data brokers and make it available to the wider research community. The… read more
The tricky truth about how generative AI uses your data – Vox
Simply put, generative AI systems need as much data as possible to train on. The more they get, the better… read more
Common Crawl
The Common Crawl corpus contains petabytes of data, regularly collected since 2008. https://commoncrawl.org/
Most websites do not publish privacy policies, researchers say – Penn State News
Online privacy policies may not only be difficult to find but nonexistent, according to Penn State researchers who crawled millions… read more
Your Boss’s Spyware Could Train AI to Replace You – Wired
Put all of this together and there’s the potential that companies could use data they’ve harvested from workers—by monitoring them… read more
A New Contract for Artists in the Age of Generative AI – Tech Policy Press
The underlying driver of this shift is hard to grapple with. It doesn’t derive from what these models produce, but… read more
The pedestrian detection systems in self-driving cars are less likely to detect children and people of color, study suggests – Business Insider
Pedestrian detectors in self-driving cars are less likely to detect kids and people of color, study shows. This is due… read more