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Potential harms of AI chatbots
Sewell Setzer III, a 14-year-old high school student, committed suicide after he developed a friendship with an AI chatbot on Character.AI's platform, The New York Times reports. Setzer's mother, Megan Garcia, is expected to file a lawsuit against Character.AI for allegedly "harvesting teenage users' data to train its models, using addictive design features to increase engagement."
Microsoft releases strategic cybersecurity report
Microsoft published its Digital Defense Report 2024 outlining the company's efforts to prevent cyber incidents and how AI has its cybersecurity strategies. The report claimed Microsoft tracked more than 1,500 cyber threat groups and sent consumers 78 trillion security signals per day to bolster digital security in 2024.
OAIC publishes privacy compliance guides for AI developers, deployers
The Office of the Australian Information Commission published guides for businesses to help with privacy law compliance around AI development and deployment. One guide is geared toward businesses meeting their privacy obligations when deploying commercially available AI products and to help them select the appropriate tool. The other guide offers compliance recommendations for AI developers who use personal information to train their models.
Podcast: Where the US Presidential Candidates Stand on Privacy and AI Governance Policy
As the U.S. enters the final stretch of the 2024 election cycle, we face a tight race at the presidential and congressional levels. With a razor-thin margin separating Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump, 'The Privacy Advisor Podcast' decided to take a look at the possible policy positions of each campaign with regard to privacy and artificial intelligence governance.
Review of major AI models shows potential noncompliance with EU regulations
Prominent AI models have fallen short of EU regulations governing cyber resiliency and preventing discriminatory output, according to data reviewed by Reuters. The publication obtained the results of a tool developed by Swiss startup LatticeFlow AI, and research partners ETH Zurich and Bulgaria's INSAIT that scored AI models on a rubric between 0 and 1 across multiple categories, such as technical capabilities and safety. Multiple models were found to have a score of 0.46 or below in tests for discriminatory output and "prompt hijacking." You can directly access the leader board here.
ByteDance fires employee for interfering with AI model training
TikTok owner, ByteDance, claimed it fired an employee for allegedly interfering with its AI model, however, the company said the damage was fixed and will not have long-term effects on its system, BBC News reports.
Public figures urge regulations against unlicensed use of creative work to train AI
More than 10,500 creative professionals signed a statement urging officials to prohibit the use of unlicensed work to train AI models, the Guardian reports. While some regulators are aiming to introduce opt-out methods to prevent copyright infringements, Fairly Trained founder Ed Newton-Rex claimed it is "unfair to put the burden of opting out of AI training on the creator whose work is being trained on."