Tag Archives: AI ethics

Ethical AI art generation? Adobe Firefly may be the answer.

Enlarge / An Adobe Firefly AI image generator example. reader comments 125 with Share this story On Tuesday, Adobe unveiled Firefly, its new AI image synthesis generator. Unlike other AI art models such as Stable Diffusion and DALL-E, Adobe says its Firefly engine, which can generate new images from text descriptions, has been trained solely… Read More »

Paper: Stable Diffusion “memorizes” some images, sparking privacy concerns

Enlarge / An image from Stable Diffusion’s training set compared (left) to a similar Stable Diffusion generation (right) when prompted with “Ann Graham Lotz.” Carlini et al., 2023 reader comments 109 with 0 posters participating Share this story On Monday, a group of AI researchers from Google, DeepMind, UC Berkeley, Princeton, and ETH Zurich released… Read More »

Fearing ChatGPT, Google enlists founders Brin and Page in AI fight

Enlarge / An illustration of a chatbot exploding onto the scene, being very threatening. Benj Edwards / Ars Technica reader comments 83 with 0 posters participating Share this story ChatGPT has Google spooked. On Friday, The New York Times reported that Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin held several emergency meetings with company executives… Read More »

Meta researchers create AI that masters Diplomacy, tricking human players

Enlarge / A screenshot of an online game of Diplomacy, including a running chat dialog, provided by a Cicero researcher. reader comments 38 with 0 posters participating Share this story On Tuesday, Meta AI announced the development of Cicero, which it clams is the first AI to achieve human-level performance in the strategic board game… Read More »

New Meta AI demo writes racist and inaccurate scientific literature, gets pulled

Enlarge / An AI-generated illustration of robots making science. Ars Technica reader comments 97 with 0 posters participating Share this story On Tuesday, Meta AI unveiled a demo of Galactica, a large language model designed to “store, combine and reason about scientific knowledge.” While intended to accelerate writing scientific literature, adversarial users running tests found… Read More »

Microsoft takes AI image generation mainstream, strolling into ethics minefield

Enlarge / A preview of Microsoft Designer’s AI text-to-image feature, which can generate images from written prompts. reader comments 31 with 23 posters participating, including story author Share this story During a Surface press event today, Microsoft announced integrations of AI-powered image-generation technology into its Bing search engine, Edge browser, and a new Office app… Read More »