Training Sets

Evidently, Slack (my favorite corporate comms app) has been scanning user messages to train its AI models. The issue was highlighted in a recent tweet from Corey Quinn. Slack's strangely worded AI policy basically says that all Slack users are automatically opted in to its AI training unless the corporate system administrator opts out for your whole company. In other words: individual users cannot opt out by themselves. Continue Reading →

The AI poisoning tool Nightshade, which protects digital artwork from being used to train generative AI models without permission, racked up more than 250,000 downloads in just five days. Continue Reading →

Is your preferred AI application built on ethically sourced data? Fairly Trained, a new non-profit organization, is going to do its best to figure out the answer, then certify AI models that legally license protected data for training their AI models. Continue Reading →