Tag: Petition
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No Deepfakes For Democracy
The main way that all of us encounter digital media — real and synthetic — is through social platforms like Facebook, Instagram, X, and TikTok. These platforms have a responsibility to protect users from deception in the form of deepfake videos, images, and audio. As the US election draws closer, these platforms must do more…
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Sign the Cognition petition
The Midas Project has written a petition to Cognition, asking them to adopt an industry standard risk-evaluation policy. There are two places you can sign our petition — on our website directly, and on Change.org. (Don’t worry about signing on both — we will be combining the signature totals and cross-checking to remove duplicates before…
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Sign Open Letter on Deepfakes
“Disrupting the Deepfake Supply Chain” is an open letter raising awarneess for the need to criminalize, and prevent the production of, non-consensual and misleading deepfakes. These false images and videos are incredibly harmful and threaten to degrade social trust, damage democracies, and exacerbate sexual harassment faced by women in particular. To read the full open…
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Sign Data Privacy Petition
Multiple major tech companies appear to be planning to use user data to train their artificial intelligence models. In early August, video conferencing platform Zoom changed its terms of service to include the following provision: “You consent to Zoom’s access, use, collection, creation, modification, distribution, processing, sharing, maintenance, and storage of Service Generated Data for any purpose, to the…
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Sign Model Transparency Petition
Over the past year, OpenAI has been secretly changing ChatGPT. Researchers from Stanford and UC Berkley found that the behavior of ChatGPT changed significantly between March and June 2023, despite ChatGPT being marketed as the exact same product to customers. Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.09009 In some cases, this has resulted in the model performing worse. At the…