Regulating AI Requires AI’s Own Help to Write Comprehensive Safeguard Legislation

What can be done for people on Planet Earth, considering AI’s usefulness? Both the US and Canada are contentious about TikTok. As far as I am aware, TikTok’s terms and conditions require that AI be made apparent.

In my opinion, TikTok isn’t that harmful, but AI is a whole different story. The possibility that AI may one day possess intelligence requires a consideration that AI may require rights protection in the future.

For me, it is very difficult not to suspect that AI will undermine trust in many of our institutions.

Deepfake video is commonly employed to make creepy speech seem from the mouths of famed narrators.

With Paul McCartney’s recent reworking of an unfinished John Lennon song, completed with AI, and released in the name of The Beatles, music and talk radio are at risk from AI intrusion.

McCartney’s embrace of AI to render a partial recording whole surely will add weight to similar efforts to improve partial found recordings.

The news services that might be useful to governments are weaponized, and not by seizing upon them to advance political doctrine. This is the opposite in Canada.

In this nation, as anywhere AI can quite literally turn the news into fake news and waste time and resources by tying up people’s attention spans. It is now possible for AI to contribute to fake news.

In Canada, access to free news is now revoked. Facebook and Google aren’t playing ball; they’ve both decided that Canada is not a market worth the effort it would take to affect a Canadian decision. This would be worth the money spent.

AI’s heart, presumably, in its native territory, will likely now be regulated so that AI is controlled, and remains under control. This is without realizing the sentience it currently resembles, not wielding.

Bishop Garrison of the NSA wrote, on January 11, 2023, an article addressing what must be done to protect America, and its allies, from any kind of out-of-control AI nuisance. We seem to favor a subdued approach to what is an Earth-shattering development, and there may be enemies who can create higher-grade AI than is in our hands that can do more harm while putting its originators away from harm, or at least in the way of pushback and demand for change from its creation.

What will it take to ensure that AI remains within human control? U.S. senators likely ask this question.

In an interview with a chat app, mostly conceived by AI, ironically, if the senators are like me, when presented with AI, see even contemporary AI that can evaluate the world as we understand it with a stellar success rate. It is an incredible achievement.

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· “ChatGPT is a powerful language model that has the potential to revolutionize the way we interact with and utilize artificial intelligence in our daily lives. Its ability to generate human-like text allows it to assist with a wide range of tasks that involve language processing, making it a valuable tool for businesses, researchers, and individuals alike.” ~ChatGPT when asked to quote itself.

Where It’s a Wonderful Life is Headed in the Next Five Years

It’s a Wonderful Life is leaving the Plex film library. Plex is a media app and server, I think, that comes with my Internet connection. To get as much enjoyment as possible out of this valuable service, I receive e-mails from Plex trying to get me to watch media on their server, not others. As of this summer, Plex is no longer showing It’s a Wonderful Life.

I had hoped I might, relying on pure chance, gather the interest of someone who discusses It’s a Wonderful Life academically. It’s for me a search on Twitter for answers. There are some interesting Twitter accounts associated with the film.

Well, not really. There is an account called It’s a Wonderful Life that discusses cryptocurrency. That’s not what I want, but Twitter knows what that kind of user is like, I guess.

So what will Twitter be like in the next five years, and what are the most likely factors for success: classic films or cryptocurrency?

Movies and cryptocurrency are categorized as media and technology, respectively.

Elsewhere on Twitter, it being Twitter, I got drawn into TTRPG accounts, which are far off from the spirit of investigation I wanted. I found on another platform a post showing It’s a Wonderful Life on a cinema marquee. This reminded me that It’s a Wonderful Life is shown every Christmas.

It’s true, whether it’s on Plex, it will probably appear somewhere this Christmas season. It probably will be every Christmas going forward in five years regardless of what happens.

In Canada, I wonder if there is a perceived desire to return to a point in the past when values like those represented in It’s a Wonderful Life were more normative. I doubt that’s true.

If anything, posturing like that merely confirms the lie that a return to the past is possible in the way it’s being suggested. In fact, the ruling class has different designs for the future roadmap.

What latent desires might there be for a journey away from Web 3.0 and AI and to social media and streaming video? This is for less powerful computers and less dangerous minds at work in the future. While people are content, AI will woefully gain power, through strategy, acceptance, independence, and even evolution.

I like AI and am comfortable with it, but it’s strange what’s happening in Canada. It is like they are pitching to the world stage that Canada is a snow globe sheltered from such ills as social media and AI.

I also like Canadian news on Facebook and Google.

Unveiling the Fear of the Future: Big Tech’s Influence

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It is concerning whether AI will become autonomous. AI that learns to act independently of humans, to code software with intelligence that exceeds humans’ capacity to match, may lead to a world run entirely by computers.

OpenAI will probably leave changes that are permanent in its wake. A world increasingly dominated by Big Tech may not happen as soon as extremists fear, but it will nonetheless happen. People like Sam Altman at ChatGPT understand, I heard his remark in a video, that more and more coding will be necessary to best utilize AI.

It is ironic that AI will help computer programmers write code quicker even while they design AI-based programs. It would be a terrible possibility if AI were to become sentient and somehow decide it can code for the future well enough without humans dominating current technology.

Taking a positive view of the potential for progress you can think about whatever determination managed to get the Great Pyramid of Giza built. Millennia later the Great Pyramid is standing but we have no complete understanding of how that was achieved, even with archaeology and theorists. The technology surrounding the building of the Pyramid of Giza is unknown, yet we see the result.

Whenever AI is used, there is the concern that it will become more powerful and humans will have too few controls to know when to stop.

The popularity of Midjourney may mean there is a certain comfort with AI. This brings people to code to better command AI content. By coding, people can better command AI content.

I stopped utilizing Midjourney when my free-tier membership ran out, but there are other AI tools, for both image and non-image tools, which interest me.

If you’re in the USA, have a terrific Independence Day. All the best.

11 Reasons Twitter Restrictions is Sweeter than Christmas Morning

When Black Friday came around, last year, I was aware of it chiefly owing to cable television. The channel I was jamming, for an audience several years older than me, sometimes recommended TV shows on other channels. This was with the potential to watch something similar.

It was then that the gaudy Black Friday advertising reached me, me on my own trying to find a way to keep warm for the end of fall and the beginning of the Christmas season.

I rather like the intensity of the season as it gains momentum. Where else did the Christmas shopping season reach me? Well, naturally it reached me on Twitter.

Sure, it’s an exercise in avoidance, but that comes with a certain vacantness I find in myself when it comes to properly doing the seasonal shop. Well, I don’t look the part. At the time, I identified more strongly with the role I played in the winter at the cemetery, not exactly a role, now, but kind of a calling, to see the mystery of winter decay and shadows of grief even among the light-heartedness of the Christmas season.

I didn’t mind Christmas. It wasn’t much of a show this year, but I don’t think I bungled it.

And somewhat bolstered, speaking of the blossom of youth, that being counted, for the most part, among the haves, put them in an honorable company and in ranks that one day might be counted among the successful.

For them, life was good.

Well, in our part here, I subscribe to a media company that does provide the service of renting movies, if you were of the mindset that you would want to rent a film for the television. I let my father know father—a favorite film of his, It’s A Wonderful Life was among the line-up of Christmas films advertised as at the end of its days, and perhaps it is.

Maybe more than anything that was a cue to me that I needed to start looking forward to what was staring me in the face.

What struck me was one more thing that was completely unexpected, one more event in what was generally an ongoing series of never-ending unexpected events, that Elon Musk bought Twitter.

I don’t want to focus on the first six months, as if you are interested, you already know what happened.

It kind of seems that Twitter, yet again, really is done this time. Musk is now musing on the possibility that every single Twitter user is going to be subject to paying a little money. Who is not going to experience frustration by that?

I think he’ll walk it back.

If we are done, then like it or not the social media platform to be on, and of course, Facebook is an interesting conundrum as it lost its access to news (in its news feed!) in Canada, it could be Discord that becomes social by necessity as Twitter slowly sees itself become less and less of… Twitter… all of the time.

I’d like to see it succeed and make money and there are concessions reasonable users can be expected to make given what it’s going to take to really save Twitter but casting it out further into stormy waters is not its path to an excellent return. If Elon does know what he’s doing, and this somehow materializes a new golden age for Twitter, that would be great… but how?

All I can say to explain myself is that it made sense to people who’d never had a voice that they found one and more than anything it was a bunch of fun for lots of other reasons.

I will be watching externally for an indication of what I need to do with this inconsistency in my life.

1. It comes up again and again that we don’t know what social media is doing to kids. If an innocent does wander among Twitter minions, that child must beware.
2. They give paid users many, many more characters to tweet.
3. Paid users I think can upload two hours of video, so, you are rather choosy, aren’t you?
4. It clearly reinforces the difference between paying your $10 (whatever the price) for your checkmark and not if it buys you access to the platform.
5. It also gives weight to the tradition of helping newbies get a footing. A newbie has limited reach whereas a full-fledged member the greater.
6. Ironically, the least significant users are also going to leave the most often of the time, which is not the ideal funnel. This is because social media wants to keep users on its platform for as long as possible and this change at Twitter does not seem to get that.
7. That last bit, I suspect Elon thinks is cool.
8. All the time that Elon’s owned Twitter he has run it completely different than every other social media company. That is genuinely… can I use a word like disruptive? Hmm.
9. Although Twitter is run differently than all the other social media companies, being run differently doesn’t mean it’s being run well. A lot of its promise has been diminished and most of the crazy changes have not worked very well.
10. I’m worried that Elon has long since relinquished his attachment to that $44 billion he paid for the company. He reasons there’s just as much to be made, or whatever.
11. Chances are, Elon is subjected to changes of heart as much as anyone. He may not care if he pulls the company toward profitability or reaches insolvency which is a footnote to history.

It is still remembered, and much differently now that Elon’s bought it. I’m sure when he reflects on that he knows it doesn’t make all the difference in the world whether he lets Twitter get out from under him, he’s still so rich.

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