Generated Data Fouls Human Datasets: Some crowdworkers are using ChatGPT to generate data.
Tech & Society

Generated Data Fouls Human Datasets: Some crowdworkers are using ChatGPT to generate data.

The crowdworkers you hire to provide human data may use AI to produce it. Researchers at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne found that written material supplied by workers hired via Amazon Mechanical Turk showed signs of being generated by ChatGPT.

June 28, 20232 min read
Lawyers, Beware LLMs: Attorney faces disciplinary action for using ChatGPT's fictional brief.
Tech & Society

Lawyers, Beware LLMs: Attorney faces disciplinary action for using ChatGPT's fictional brief.

A United States federal judge threw ChatGPT’s legal research out of court. An attorney who used ChatGPT to generate a legal brief faces disciplinary action after opposing lawyers discovered that the brief referred to fictional cases and quotations invented by the chatbot.

June 22, 20232 min read
Lawyers, Beware LLMs: Attorney faces disciplinary action for using ChatGPT's fictional brief.
Tech & Society

Lawyers, Beware LLMs: Attorney faces disciplinary action for using ChatGPT's fictional brief.

A United States federal judge threw ChatGPT’s legal research out of court. An attorney who used ChatGPT to generate a legal brief faces disciplinary action after opposing lawyers discovered that the brief referred to fictional cases and quotations invented by the chatbot.

June 22, 20232 min read
More Tesla Crashes: Government data shows increase in Tesla autonomous collisions.
Tech & Society

More Tesla Crashes: Government data shows increase in Tesla autonomous collisions.

Tesla cars operating semi-autonomously have had many more collisions than previously reported, and the rate of such incidents has risen, government data shows.

June 21, 20232 min read
More Tesla Crashes: Government data shows increase in Tesla autonomous collisions.
Tech & Society

More Tesla Crashes: Government data shows increase in Tesla autonomous collisions.

Tesla cars operating semi-autonomously have had many more collisions than previously reported, and the rate of such incidents has risen, government data shows.

June 21, 20232 min read
Training Data Free-For-All: Japan's AI data laws, explained
Tech & Society

Training Data Free-For-All: Japan's AI data laws, explained

Amid rising questions about the fairness and legality of using publicly available information to train AI models, Japan affirmed that machine learning engineers can use any data they find.

June 14, 20232 min read
Training Data Free-For-All: Japan's AI data laws, explained
Tech & Society

Training Data Free-For-All: Japan's AI data laws, explained

Amid rising questions about the fairness and legality of using publicly available information to train AI models, Japan affirmed that machine learning engineers can use any data they find.

June 14, 20232 min read
Taught by a Bot: How some schools use AI tutors in the classroom
Tech & Society

Taught by a Bot: How some schools use AI tutors in the classroom

While some schools resist their students’ use of chatbots, others are inviting them into the classroom. Some primary and secondary schools in the United States are testing an automated tutor built by online educator Khan Academy.

June 14, 20232 min read
Taught by a Bot: How some schools use AI tutors in the classroom
Tech & Society

Taught by a Bot: How some schools use AI tutors in the classroom

While some schools resist their students’ use of chatbots, others are inviting them into the classroom. Some primary and secondary schools in the United States are testing an automated tutor built by online educator Khan Academy.

June 14, 20232 min read
AI Risk and the Resource Curse: Concentration of AI in the hands of a few could undermine human rights. The solution is to make it available to everyone.
Tech & Society

AI Risk and the Resource Curse: Concentration of AI in the hands of a few could undermine human rights. The solution is to make it available to everyone.

AI risks are in the air — from speculation that AI, decades or centuries from now, could bring about human extinction to ongoing problems like bias and fairness.

June 14, 20233 min read
AI Risk and the Resource Curse: Concentration of AI in the hands of a few could undermine human rights. The solution is to make it available to everyone.
Tech & Society

AI Risk and the Resource Curse: Concentration of AI in the hands of a few could undermine human rights. The solution is to make it available to everyone.

AI risks are in the air — from speculation that AI, decades or centuries from now, could bring about human extinction to ongoing problems like bias and fairness.

June 14, 20233 min read
LAION Roars: The story of LAION, the dataset behind Stable Diffusion
Tech & Society

LAION Roars: The story of LAION, the dataset behind Stable Diffusion

The largest dataset for training text-to-image generators was assembled by volunteers for roughly $10,000. Now it’s implicated in fights over whether copyrighted works can be used for training.

June 7, 20233 min read
LAION Roars: The story of LAION, the dataset behind Stable Diffusion
Tech & Society

LAION Roars: The story of LAION, the dataset behind Stable Diffusion

The largest dataset for training text-to-image generators was assembled by volunteers for roughly $10,000. Now it’s implicated in fights over whether copyrighted works can be used for training.

June 7, 20233 min read
Falcon Ascends: Falcon, the new open source commercial LLM, explained
Tech & Society

Falcon Ascends: Falcon, the new open source commercial LLM, explained

A team in the United Arab Emirates, a seven-state federation on the Arabian Peninsula, built the latest top-performing open source large language model.

June 7, 20232 min read
Falcon Ascends: Falcon, the new open source commercial LLM, explained
Tech & Society

Falcon Ascends: Falcon, the new open source commercial LLM, explained

A team in the United Arab Emirates, a seven-state federation on the Arabian Peninsula, built the latest top-performing open source large language model.

June 7, 20232 min read

Subscribe to The Batch

Stay updated with weekly AI News and Insights delivered to your inbox