#trainingai — Public Fediverse posts

Reuters: Why Tesla’s AI trainers don’t trust its self-driving tech – or its safety stats. “Tesla says its Full Self-Driving software is up to 10 times safer than human drivers. But the figures the company uses to support its claims don’t withstand scrutiny – and staffers who trained the technology say it isn’t close to safely delivering autonomous vehicles at scale.”

TechCrunch: This startup is betting India’s gig economy can train the world’s robots. “In the last few years, India’s online food delivery market has grown significantly, with both Zomato and Swiggy going public and the number of cloud kitchens increasing. … Silicon Valley-based startup Human Archive is tapping into this trend, partnering with these companies to have workers wear […]

TechCrunch: This startup is betting India’s gig economy can train the world’s robots. “In the last few years, India’s online food delivery market has grown significantly, with both Zomato and Swiggy going public and the number of cloud kitchens increasing. … Silicon Valley-based startup Human Archive is tapping into this trend, partnering with these companies to have workers wear […]

TechCrunch: This startup is betting India’s gig economy can train the world’s robots. “In the last few years, India’s online food delivery market has grown significantly, with both Zomato and Swiggy going public and the number of cloud kitchens increasing. … Silicon Valley-based startup Human Archive is tapping into this trend, partnering with these companies to have workers wear […]

TechCrunch: This startup is betting India’s gig economy can train the world’s robots. “In the last few years, India’s online food delivery market has grown significantly, with both Zomato and Swiggy going public and the number of cloud kitchens increasing. … Silicon Valley-based startup Human Archive is tapping into this trend, partnering with these companies to have workers wear […]

TechCrunch: This startup is betting India’s gig economy can train the world’s robots. “In the last few years, India’s online food delivery market has grown significantly, with both Zomato and Swiggy going public and the number of cloud kitchens increasing. … Silicon Valley-based startup Human Archive is tapping into this trend, partnering with these companies to have workers wear […]

Bloomberg: Musk’s xAI promised staff $420 for their tax returns, hasn’t paid. “Elon Musk’s xAI asked employees earlier this year to offer up their own tax returns as training data for the company’s Grok chatbot, promising a $420 payment as incentive for doing so. Two months later, those payments still haven’t materialized.”

Bloomberg: Musk’s xAI promised staff $420 for their tax returns, hasn’t paid. “Elon Musk’s xAI asked employees earlier this year to offer up their own tax returns as training data for the company’s Grok chatbot, promising a $420 payment as incentive for doing so. Two months later, those payments still haven’t materialized.”

Bloomberg: Musk’s xAI promised staff $420 for their tax returns, hasn’t paid. “Elon Musk’s xAI asked employees earlier this year to offer up their own tax returns as training data for the company’s Grok chatbot, promising a $420 payment as incentive for doing so. Two months later, those payments still haven’t materialized.”

Bloomberg: Musk’s xAI promised staff $420 for their tax returns, hasn’t paid. “Elon Musk’s xAI asked employees earlier this year to offer up their own tax returns as training data for the company’s Grok chatbot, promising a $420 payment as incentive for doing so. Two months later, those payments still haven’t materialized.”

Bloomberg: Musk’s xAI promised staff $420 for their tax returns, hasn’t paid. “Elon Musk’s xAI asked employees earlier this year to offer up their own tax returns as training data for the company’s Grok chatbot, promising a $420 payment as incentive for doing so. Two months later, those payments still haven’t materialized.”

Reuters: US judge considers Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement of authors’ lawsuit. “A federal judge on Thursday pressed lawyers for more information on several points of artificial intelligence company Anthropic’s proposed $1.5 ‌billion settlement with authors who accused it of misusing their books to train ‌its AI chatbot Claude.”

Courthouse News: Authors, publishers near final approval of $1.5 billion Anthropic copyright settlement. “A $1.5 billion settlement over claims AI developer Anthropic pirated hundreds of thousands of copyrighted books to train its large language models inched toward final approval Thursday.”

Courthouse News: Authors, publishers near final approval of $1.5 billion Anthropic copyright settlement. “A $1.5 billion settlement over claims AI developer Anthropic pirated hundreds of thousands of copyrighted books to train its large language models inched toward final approval Thursday.”

Courthouse News: Authors, publishers near final approval of $1.5 billion Anthropic copyright settlement. “A $1.5 billion settlement over claims AI developer Anthropic pirated hundreds of thousands of copyrighted books to train its large language models inched toward final approval Thursday.”

Courthouse News: Authors, publishers near final approval of $1.5 billion Anthropic copyright settlement. “A $1.5 billion settlement over claims AI developer Anthropic pirated hundreds of thousands of copyrighted books to train its large language models inched toward final approval Thursday.”

Courthouse News: Authors, publishers near final approval of $1.5 billion Anthropic copyright settlement. “A $1.5 billion settlement over claims AI developer Anthropic pirated hundreds of thousands of copyrighted books to train its large language models inched toward final approval Thursday.”

Reuters: Journalists sue Google for allegedly using their voices in AI training. “Google has been sued by a group of award-winning journalists, podcasters and audiobook narrators in Illinois federal court for allegedly misusing ​recordings of their voices to train the artificial intelligence models ‌that power Google Assistant, Gemini Live and other systems that replicate human voices.”

Reuters: Journalists sue Google for allegedly using their voices in AI training. “Google has been sued by a group of award-winning journalists, podcasters and audiobook narrators in Illinois federal court for allegedly misusing ​recordings of their voices to train the artificial intelligence models ‌that power Google Assistant, Gemini Live and other systems that replicate human voices.”

Reuters: Journalists sue Google for allegedly using their voices in AI training. “Google has been sued by a group of award-winning journalists, podcasters and audiobook narrators in Illinois federal court for allegedly misusing ​recordings of their voices to train the artificial intelligence models ‌that power Google Assistant, Gemini Live and other systems that replicate human voices.”

Reuters: Journalists sue Google for allegedly using their voices in AI training. “Google has been sued by a group of award-winning journalists, podcasters and audiobook narrators in Illinois federal court for allegedly misusing ​recordings of their voices to train the artificial intelligence models ‌that power Google Assistant, Gemini Live and other systems that replicate human voices.”

Reuters: Journalists sue Google for allegedly using their voices in AI training. “Google has been sued by a group of award-winning journalists, podcasters and audiobook narrators in Illinois federal court for allegedly misusing ​recordings of their voices to train the artificial intelligence models ‌that power Google Assistant, Gemini Live and other systems that replicate human voices.”

The Register: Yet another experiment proves it’s too damn simple to poison large language models. “Unlike search engines that let you judge competing sources, search-backed AI chatbots can turn shaky web material into confident answers. Case in point: A security engineer convinced several bots that he was the reigning world champion of a popular German card game, even though no such […]

BBC: Meta in row after workers who say they saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs. “Meta is under pressure to explain why it cancelled a major contract with a company it was using to train AI, shortly after some of its Kenya-based workers alleged they had to view graphic content captured by Meta smart glasses.”

BBC: Meta in row after workers who say they saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs. “Meta is under pressure to explain why it cancelled a major contract with a company it was using to train AI, shortly after some of its Kenya-based workers alleged they had to view graphic content captured by Meta smart glasses.”

BBC: Meta in row after workers who say they saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs. “Meta is under pressure to explain why it cancelled a major contract with a company it was using to train AI, shortly after some of its Kenya-based workers alleged they had to view graphic content captured by Meta smart glasses.”

BBC: Meta in row after workers who say they saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs. “Meta is under pressure to explain why it cancelled a major contract with a company it was using to train AI, shortly after some of its Kenya-based workers alleged they had to view graphic content captured by Meta smart glasses.”

BBC: Meta in row after workers who say they saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs. “Meta is under pressure to explain why it cancelled a major contract with a company it was using to train AI, shortly after some of its Kenya-based workers alleged they had to view graphic content captured by Meta smart glasses.”

Associated Press: Mark Zuckerberg ‘personally authorized’ Meta’s copyright infringement, publishers allege. “Five publishing houses and author Scott Turow sued Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday, alleging the company illegally used millions of copyrighted works to train its AI language system Llama.”

Associated Press: Mark Zuckerberg ‘personally authorized’ Meta’s copyright infringement, publishers allege. “Five publishing houses and author Scott Turow sued Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday, alleging the company illegally used millions of copyrighted works to train its AI language system Llama.”

Associated Press: Mark Zuckerberg ‘personally authorized’ Meta’s copyright infringement, publishers allege. “Five publishing houses and author Scott Turow sued Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday, alleging the company illegally used millions of copyrighted works to train its AI language system Llama.”

Associated Press: Mark Zuckerberg ‘personally authorized’ Meta’s copyright infringement, publishers allege. “Five publishing houses and author Scott Turow sued Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday, alleging the company illegally used millions of copyrighted works to train its AI language system Llama.”

Associated Press: Mark Zuckerberg ‘personally authorized’ Meta’s copyright infringement, publishers allege. “Five publishing houses and author Scott Turow sued Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday, alleging the company illegally used millions of copyrighted works to train its AI language system Llama.”

Ars Technica: The hidden cost of Google’s AI defaults and the illusion of choice. “What we’re seeing in both free and paid Google accounts is the power of defaults in the AI era. The default is sharing data for AI training. The default is AI summaries in your email. The default is AI-powered document creation. You can change these settings, but Google has to know most people won’t do […]

BBC: Meta to track workers’ clicks and keystrokes to train AI. “Meta will start tracking the way employees work, including their keystrokes and mouse clicks, to train its artificial intelligence (AI) models. The company, which owns Instagram and Facebook, told workers on Tuesday that a new tool will run on Meta’s computers and internal apps, logging their activity to be used as training data […]

The Register: Bad teacher bots can leave hidden marks on model students. “New research warns about the dangers of teaching LLMs on the output of other models, showing that undesirable traits can be transmitted ‘subliminally’ from teacher to student, even when they are scrubbed from training data.”

Fast Company: Shuttered startups are selling old Slack chats and emails to AI companies. “According to a report by Forbes, defunct companies are selling their digital footprints to AI companies as training data—and making real money from it. Shanna Johnson, the CEO of now-defunct software company Cielo24, told the publication that she was able to sell every Slack message, internal email, and […]

Fast Company: Shuttered startups are selling old Slack chats and emails to AI companies. “According to a report by Forbes, defunct companies are selling their digital footprints to AI companies as training data—and making real money from it. Shanna Johnson, the CEO of now-defunct software company Cielo24, told the publication that she was able to sell every Slack message, internal email, and […]

Fast Company: Shuttered startups are selling old Slack chats and emails to AI companies. “According to a report by Forbes, defunct companies are selling their digital footprints to AI companies as training data—and making real money from it. Shanna Johnson, the CEO of now-defunct software company Cielo24, told the publication that she was able to sell every Slack message, internal email, and […]

Fast Company: Shuttered startups are selling old Slack chats and emails to AI companies. “According to a report by Forbes, defunct companies are selling their digital footprints to AI companies as training data—and making real money from it. Shanna Johnson, the CEO of now-defunct software company Cielo24, told the publication that she was able to sell every Slack message, internal email, and […]

Fast Company: Shuttered startups are selling old Slack chats and emails to AI companies. “According to a report by Forbes, defunct companies are selling their digital footprints to AI companies as training data—and making real money from it. Shanna Johnson, the CEO of now-defunct software company Cielo24, told the publication that she was able to sell every Slack message, internal email, and […]

Engadget: Three YouTubers accuse Apple of illegal scraping to train its AI models. “Three YouTube channels have banded together and filed a class action lawsuit against Apple, as first spotted by MacRumors. According to the lawsuit, the creators behind h3h3 Productions, MrShortGameGolf and Golfholics have accused Apple of violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act by scraping copyrighted […]

TorrentFreak: Judge Allows BitTorrent Seeding Claims Against Meta, Despite Lawyers ‘Lame Excuses’. “In an effort to gather material for its LLM training, Meta used BitTorrent to download pirated books from Anna’s Archive and other shadow libraries. According to several authors, Meta facilitated the infringement of others by ‘seeding’ these torrents. This week, the court granted the […]

TorrentFreak: Judge Allows BitTorrent Seeding Claims Against Meta, Despite Lawyers ‘Lame Excuses’. “In an effort to gather material for its LLM training, Meta used BitTorrent to download pirated books from Anna’s Archive and other shadow libraries. According to several authors, Meta facilitated the infringement of others by ‘seeding’ these torrents. This week, the court granted the […]

PsyPost: Efforts to make AI inclusive accidentally create bizarre new gender biases, new research suggests. “New research published in Computers in Human Behavior Reports suggests that efforts to make artificial intelligence more inclusive can sometimes create unexpected new biases.”

NIST: NIST Helps Fingerprint Examiners With New Data and Software Release. “A NIST collection of 10,000 fingerprints has now been fully annotated with details that will help train both human fingerprint examiners and AI tools. NIST has also released open-source software that can help evaluate and sort fingerprints according to their quality, potentially helping fingerprint examiners work more […]

Driving: Motor Mouth: YouTube’s inane crash videos may teach future self-driving cars. “… the best learning tools aren’t, says [Professor Krzysztof] Czarnecki, the endless of hours of on-road driving recorded by existing autonomous automobiles like Google-cum-Waymo’s Open Dataset, but rather crowdsourced dashcam recordings on social media.”

Billboard: BMG Sues Anthropic, Entering AI Copyright Battlefield: ‘Egregious Law-Breaking’. “The various publishing arms of BMG filed a lawsuit on Tuesday (March 17) against the behemoth company, which is behind the popular AI chatbot Claude. BMG alleges the model was trained on lyrics from unlicensed songs, including Billboard Hot 100 chart-toppers like Ariana Grande’s ‘7 Rings’ and […]

BBC: Government backtracks on AI and copyright after outcry from major artists . “The UK government has backtracked on its position on copyright and AI, stating it must take time to ‘get this right’. Its original position – allowing AI companies to use copyrighted works to train their models with an opt-out option – received major backlash from the likes of Sir Elton John and Dua Lipa.”

RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@brucelawson/116243807011110029

Re: Pokémon Go training data.

Well there were very strong hints in the terms of service even early on, and a large part of why I stopped playing the game after the first month or two… Wish I still had the links that convinced me.

I hate that basically everything I started to “wear a tin foil hat” about over the past 10 years has since been proven to be abused by corporations... “You are the product” etc etc.

#PokemonGo #TrainingData #TrainingAI #privacy