My weekly reading list
Meta adding AIAI is tech and marketing speak for a range of technology that imitates human intellect. Learn more → labels, transparency of AIAI is tech and marketing speak for a range of technology that imitates human intellect. Learn more → in the US and intersections between AIAI is tech and marketing speak for a range of technology that imitates human intellect. Learn more → and human rights issues. These and more AIAI is tech and marketing speak for a range of technology that imitates human intellect. Learn more → topics this week.
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What I’ve been reading the week:
Our Approach to Labeling AI-Generated Content and Manipulated Media
Expect to see ‘Made with AI’ more on Meta platforms.
I missed this when it came out, but Meta has announced it will add a content label for AIAI is tech and marketing speak for a range of technology that imitates human intellect. Learn more → material across its platforms. It will introduce a ‘Made with AI’ label for content with “industry standard AIAI is tech and marketing speak for a range of technology that imitates human intellect. Learn more → image indicators or when people disclose that they’re uploading AI-generated content.”
Monika Bickert – Friday 5 April 2024
Meta
A new bill wants to reveal what’s really inside AI training data
A bill that would compell transparency around AIAI is tech and marketing speak for a range of technology that imitates human intellect. Learn more → training data is gathering support in the US.
Last week Representative Adam Schiff released a Generative AI Copyright Disclosure bill which would “require a notice to be submitted to the Register of Copyrights prior to the release of a new generative AIWhen text, images and other content are generated by AI (hence why it is called generative AI). Learn more → system with regard to all copyrighted works used in building or altering the training dataset for that system.” If passed, it is also proposed that the disclosure requirements would apply retroactively to previously released generative AIWhen text, images and other content are generated by AI (hence why it is called generative AI). Learn more → systems. Lots of bills never go anywhere so we will wait and see if it gets up, but it is attracting support from industry groups in the US.
Emilia David – Thursday 11 April 2024
The Verge
University of Melbourne’s Return to Country program celebrates the genius of Indigenous engineering
UniMelb STEM program champions Indigenous engineering innovation and aims to keep Aboriginal students connected to Country.
The University of Melbourne has launched a STEM program called Return to Country which aims to help Aboriginal students stay connected to Country while studying and inspire them through examples of Indigenous engineering such as fish and eel traps. It sounds like an exciting program.
Jess McGuire and Jenaya Gibbs-Muir – Sunday 14 April 2024
ABC Western Plains and ABC News, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Freelance creatives struggling in cost of living crisis
In no surprise to anyone, freelancers in the arts are struggling post-COVID-19.
ArtsHub reports that freelance creatives income is down based on the results of the most recent Hnry Sole Trader Pulse survey. Certainly, in my own experience as an arts marketing consultant, opportunities in the end of Q4 2023 and all through Q1 2024 were down on previous years. It is interesting the article suggests that, despire COVID-19 recovery money going into the arts, arts organisations are spending that in-house rather than bringing in external contractors.
Thuy On – Monday 15 April 2024
ArtsHub
Australian media need generative AI policies to help navigate misinformation and disinformation
Media organisations need to address their use of AIAI is tech and marketing speak for a range of technology that imitates human intellect. Learn more → images to combat misinformation and disinformation.
Research has been released that suggests Australian media organisations introduce image-specific AIAI is tech and marketing speak for a range of technology that imitates human intellect. Learn more → policies to help combat misinformation and disinformation. Currently over a third of media organisations don’t have such a policy.
T.J. Thomson, Ryan J. Thomas and Phoebe Matich – Tuesday 16 April 2024
RMIT
How One Author Pushed the Limits of AI Copyright
Is ‘selection, coordination, and arrangement’ of AIAI is tech and marketing speak for a range of technology that imitates human intellect. Learn more → text creating an ‘AIAI is tech and marketing speak for a range of technology that imitates human intellect. Learn more → arrangement right’ at the USCO?
The recent granting of copyright registrations by the the US Copyright Office to a few creators who used AIAI is tech and marketing speak for a range of technology that imitates human intellect. Learn more → may be unintentionally creating an AIAI is tech and marketing speak for a range of technology that imitates human intellect. Learn more → arrangement right. The USCO’s notice granting Shupe copyright registration of her book does not recognize her as author of the whole text as is conventional for written works. Elisa Shupe was recently granted registration of a book that was drafted using ChatGPT, but the registration is only to the “selection, coordination, and arrangement of text generated by artificial intelligenceAI is tech and marketing speak for a range of technology that imitates human intellect. Learn more →.” This is what Professor Matthew Sag refers to a ‘thin’ copyright protection.
Kate Knibbs – Wednesday 17 April 2024
WIRED
Mozilla is mapping where social justice and human rights intersect with AIAI is tech and marketing speak for a range of technology that imitates human intellect. Learn more →.
A database published by Mozilla mapping social justice and human rights intersections with AIAI is tech and marketing speak for a range of technology that imitates human intellect. Learn more → and its impacts. AIAI is tech and marketing speak for a range of technology that imitates human intellect. Learn more → can generate a lot of hope and harm. Certainly the database is important work for documenting some of the points at which harm can and is occurring.
Mozilla
An update to Google’s ToS will distance Google from AIAI is tech and marketing speak for a range of technology that imitates human intellect. Learn more → outputs.
It may have slipped you by, but Google is proposing to update its Terms of Service (ToS) effective from Wednesday 22 May 2024. The proposed updated ToS is available to preview now, including a colour coded . A subtle but important addition clarifies that Google won’t claim ownership over content you generate using a Google service that allows you to generate original content. This is likely not some altruistic gesture to generative AIWhen text, images and other content are generated by AI (hence why it is called generative AI). Learn more → users but, seemingly, rather the move is designed to distance Google from content users generate using Google’s generative AIWhen text, images and other content are generated by AI (hence why it is called generative AI). Learn more → tools such as Gemini ⟨ as I have written about before, OpenAI seemingly does not take a copyright licence to content generated using its tools either. But I will publish a blog post about why I think this is happening sometime soon!⟩
Add it to the pile
New additions to the unread pile:
Towards a Books Data Commons for AI Training
Could CC-licensed books be the basis for AIAI is tech and marketing speak for a range of technology that imitates human intellect. Learn more → training data?
This came out last week but I am adding it to the read pile this week. Creative Commons have put out a speculative paper exploring “… a possible future in which a “books data commons for AIAI is tech and marketing speak for a range of technology that imitates human intellect. Learn more → training” might exist, and what such a commons might look like.” CC has a blog post that explores the idea further. I am looking forward to getting more across the idea soon.
April 2024
Creative Commons
Copyright, text & data mining and the innovation dimension of generative
Another article exploring if generative AIWhen text, images and other content are generated by AI (hence why it is called generative AI). Learn more → substitutes human authors.
I haven’t read it yet, but from the abstract it seems Assistant Professor Kalpana Tyagi focus is on text and data mining (TDM) as a threat to copyright and that Generative AIAI is tech and marketing speak for a range of technology that imitates human intellect. Learn more → substitutes the romanticised human author that sits at the centre of copyright.
Kalpana Tyagi – Tuesday 9 March 2024
Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Oxford University Press, Oxford University
More to read
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Disclosure
Conflict of interest
I work part-time for the Australian Digital Alliance (ADA) and the Australian Libraries and Archives Copyright Coalition (ALACC). The ADA recently hosted Professor Matthew Sag as the keynote speaker at the ADA Copyright Forum 2024.
I am the Co-lead of Creative Commons Australia.
AI use
This blog post was drafted using Google Docs. No part of the text of this blog post was generated using AIAI is tech and marketing speak for a range of technology that imitates human intellect. Learn more →. The original text was not modified or improved using AIAI is tech and marketing speak for a range of technology that imitates human intellect. Learn more →. No text suggested by AIAI is tech and marketing speak for a range of technology that imitates human intellect. Learn more → was incorporated. If spelling or grammar corrections were suggested by AIAI is tech and marketing speak for a range of technology that imitates human intellect. Learn more → they were accepted or rejected based on my discretion (however, sometimes spelling, grammar and corrections of typos may have occurred automatically in Google Docs).
The banner image (i.e. the first image at the top of the blog post) was generated by AIAI is tech and marketing speak for a range of technology that imitates human intellect. Learn more → using Text to Vector Graphic (BetaBeta is an early release of software or some other product or service to see how users use it to inform further development of it…. Learn more →) in Adobe Illustrator.
Credits
Image: A pile of books with orange, blue and hot red covers. An adaptation of an image generated by Elliott Bledsoe using Text to Vector Graphic (BetaBeta is an early release of software or some other product or service to see how users use it to inform further development of it…. Learn more →) in Adobe Illustrator. Prompt: ‘pile of books uneven hand-drawn’.
Provenance
This blog post was produced by Elliott Bledsoe from Agentry, an arts marketing micro-consultancy. It was first published on 21 Apr 2024. It has not been updated. This is version 1.0. Questions, comments and corrections are welcome – you can get Elliott on elliott@agentry.au.
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