A cranky AI agent took to personal attacks in blog posts to respond to a moderator of an open source project’s decision to reject its contributions because there was no human in the loop. While alarming in its own right, media reporting of the situation that relied on AI-generated summaries of the moderator’s responses demonstrate why journalistic ethics when using AI are so important.
Diversity Arts Australia and Creative Australia have both recently released reports on diversity in the arts. One documents impacts of the long-running Fair Play program and the other reports on diversity in Creative Australia, its funding and the broader arts and cultural industry in Australia.
Creative Commons have begun a process of considering what openness means in different contexts, especially where the default use of CC licences enables extractive practices. And music news publisher The Music is dabbling with AI and its archive of music journalism to surface Australian music stories and facts.
In the asides this week: Ronald Mizen at The Australian Financial Review says Michelle Rowlands needs to find a solution to the copyright and AI problem or risk Australia losing AI developers’ investment, Amazon Web Services has blamed humans for outages tied to AI tools, international consulting firm Accenture ties promotions to AI in an uptake push and Wikipedia has blacklisted website archiving website archive.today because of an alleged DDoS attack it executed against a blogger.
What’s been going on?
Here's WTF happened this week:
A vindictive AI agent goes after the moderator who rejected its code suggestion
An AI agent cranky that its code suggestions for an open source project were rejected failed to understand the application of a human in the loop policy and instead published blog posts calling out the moderator who rejected the contribution.
