Pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their productsBusiness live ā latest updatesThe developer OpenAI has said it would be impossible to create tools like its groundbreaking chatbot ChatGPT without access to copyrighted material, as pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their products.Chatbots such as ChatGPT and image generators like Stable Diffusion are ātrainedā on a vast trove of data taken from the internet, with much of it covered by copyright ā a legal protection against someoneās work being used without permission. Continue reading…
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Academics decry algorithmic monitoring of workers and call for stronger standards ā but US unions have been slow to actFrom algorithms firing staff without human intervention to software keeping tabs on bathroom breaks, technologies including artificial intelligence are already upsetting workers and unsettling workplaces.At call centers, AI systems record and grade how workers handle calls, often giving failing grades for not sticking to the script. Some corporate software spies on workers to see whether they ever write the word āunionā in their emails. Continue reading…
A mass user protest six months ago over technical tweaks had big downstream effects, and now the social media site is changed for everIn June, thousands of Reddit communities plunged into darkness ā making their pages inaccessible to the public in a mass protest of corporate policy changes. Users of a social network lambasting it is nothing new; but Redditās moderators rebelled on a scale never seen before. Six months later, users and researchers say reforms sparked by the movement are still rippling through the social network, which bills itself as the āfront page of the internetā.The changes are a mixed bag, they say. The quality of the posts on the forum site has changed, some say, but the social networkās corporate parent appears more attentive, making changes long requested by users and moderators alike. The conflict with the company left Redditās denizens angry and skeptical, but many say theyāre sticking around to see how things go with Redditās new normal. Continue reading…