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What if robots, instead of being devious and calculating, were completely insensitive? You know, instead of ending the world, they just made it intolerable.
british newspaper guardian Microsoft Start general news service publishes a grotesquely inappropriate AI-generated poll. guardian Article about suspected murder. Among other things, the bots didn't seem to be trained on ad placement.
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The impact of generative AI on the news business is still reverberating across industries; Guardian's Complaints against Microsoft can give you some insight into the current situation. Despite all these advances in technology, AI still lacks editorial judgment, human decency, and plain common sense.
That didn't stop Microsoft from adding the ability to use AI to generate small surveys to Microsoft Start. These appear next to news articles and provide readers with a little extra content on top of the journalism. The poll in question asked readers to vote on exactly what they thought led to the death of 21-year-old Lily James. A man was found dead with severe head injuries at a school in Australia. Anna Bateson CEO Guardian's Parent company Guardian Media Group wrote in a letter to Microsoft President Brad Smith that the AI-generated polls caused significant damage. Guardian's reputation:
- In his letter, Bateson said the case highlighted “the important role a strong copyright framework plays in enabling publishers to negotiate the terms of use of their journalism.” Microsoft did not immediately respond when contacted. daily upside We asked for comment on Bateson's letter.
- guardian was one of the first news organizations to publicly attack the mainstream Big Tech companies currently riding on the AI hype. semaphores reported in July that a collection of major publishers is forming an alliance to take legal action against platforms that dominate their news copy with large language models. .
Rishi returns: The Guardian's letter comes in the same week that British Chancellor Rishi Sunak hosts the AI Safety Summit. The event will culminate with Sunak sitting on a livestream on X/Twitter with the ever-reassuring CEO Elon Musk. Journalist Chris Stokel Walker, who is publishing a forthcoming book on the impact of AI, said the summit's topic was, as we know, not the more immediate risks, but rather “the existential threat of Terminator-style AI gaining superintelligence.” “The focus is on physical risks.” , exist.
