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Sugli utilizzi degli LLM per scopi criminali
by Marco A. Calamari April 18, 2023

April 18, 2023

Un interessante saggio di Bruce Schneier sugli usi criminali e manipolatori degli LLM, che dovrebbe farci scendere ogni tanto dai ragionamenti troppo filosofici a quelli più pratici. Consigliato. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/04/llms-and-phishing.html Marco

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Tomorrow, launch of the European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency
by Alessandro Brolpito April 18, 2023

April 18, 2023

Buonasera, Per chi fosse interessato, domani, in streaming Alessandro https://algorithmic-transparency.ec.europa.eu/presenting-ecat_en

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China to require ‘security assessment’ for new AI products
by J.C. DE MARTIN April 17, 2023

April 17, 2023

*China to require ‘security assessment’ for new AI products* AFP April 11, 2023 5:21 am New AI products developed in China will have to undergo a security assessment before being released and must reflect “core socialist values”, a sweeping new draft law by the country’s internet regulator showed Tuesday. The fresh regulations come as a flurry of Chinese companies rush to develop artificial intelligence services that can mimic human speech since San Francisco-based OpenAI launched ChatGPT in November, sparking a gold rush in the market. Rapid advancements in AI have stoked global alarm over the technology’s potential for disinformation and misuse, with deepfake images and people shown mouthing things they never said. “Before providing services to the public that use generative AI products, a security assessment shall be applied for through national internet regulatory departments,” the draft law, released by the Cyberspace Administration of China, reads. continua qui: https://insiderpaper.com/china-draft-law-to-require-security-assessment-for…

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Re: [nexa] ChatGPT disabled for users in Italy
by alessandro marzocchi April 17, 2023

April 17, 2023

Facile essere d'accordo ma ... come "fare i conti" con qualcosa che non capisco come funziona? questo sistema è lì così com'è, Quanti sanno "com'è"? Qui origina "il disagio di collasso" perchè non è un'auto ma un "coso" che già oggi funziona come il nostro cervello, indirizza la nostra mente, le nostre scelte, i nostri comportamenti. Cordialmente Duccio (Alessandro Marzocchi) Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2023 17:14:15 +0200 > > From: Guido Vetere <vetere.guido(a)gmail.com> > To: Roberto Dolci <rob.dolci(a)aizoon.us> > Cc: "delromano(a)gmail.com" <delromano(a)gmail.com>, Nexa > <nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it> > Concordo. > Bisognerebbe smetterla di ragionare su quello che ChatGPT dovrebbe essere o > ci piacerebbe che fosse (in sostanza: il front-end di una base di > conoscenza editabile, come d'altronde ce ne sono tanti) e ragionare invece > su quello che è, su come usarlo e con quali cautele, sul non usarlo e > perché, o sulla opportunità giuridica di impedire del tutto il suo uso. > Insomma, nel '900 qualcuno avrebbe potuto chiedere, o addirittura esigere, > che le autovetture fossero alimentate a biada, offuscando però il dibattito > sulla necessità di installare semafori in città. Questo è il pericolo che > vedo nella posizione del Garante italiano. > E' ovvio che siamo tutti a disagio davanti al fatto che la conoscenza > globale collassi in un solo sistema proprietario, e per di più > *intrinsecamente* allucinato. > Ma questo sistema è lì così com'è, e più che levare contro di esso grida > manzoniane, dovremo pensare seriamente a come farci i conti. > G. >

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105° Nexa Lunch Seminar | 26 aprile 2023, ore 13.00
by Nexa Media April 17, 2023

April 17, 2023

Gentilissime, gentilissimi, Vi invitiamo a partecipare al *105° Nexa Lunch Seminar *che si terrà *mercoledì 26 aprile*, dalle ore 13.00 alle ore 14.00, con un incontro dal titolo /*"Ideal technologies, ideal women. Looking at Redditors' AI and gender imaginaries of the Replika chatbot"*/. Ospite dell'incontro: *Iliana Depounti* (University of Loughborough). _L'incontro si terrà IN PRESENZA e ONLINE._ _SEDE FISICA_ dell'incontro: Centro Nexa su Internet e Società, Politecnico di Torino, Via Boggio 65/a, Torino (1° piano). Per accedere alla sala si raccomanda di suonare al citofono *Portineria* e di seguire le indicazioni segnalate dai cartelli lungo il percorso. QUI <https://nexa.polito.it/contatti> maggiori informazioni su come raggiungerci. _STANZA VIRTUALE _dell'incontro: https://didattica.polito.it/VClass/NexaEvent Di seguito maggiori dettagli: Nexa Center for Internet and Society Newsletter Se non visualizzi correttamente questo messaggio clicca qui <https://nexa.polito.it/lunch-105> NEXA 105° Nexa Lunch Seminar Mercoledì 26 aprile 2022, ore 13.00 - 14.00 https://nexa.polito.it/lunch-105 Ideal technologies, ideal women. Looking at Redditors’ AI and gender imaginaries of the Replika chatbot Speaker: *ILIANA DEPOUNTI* (University of Loughborough) *L'INCONTRO SI TERRÀ IN PRESENZA E ONLINE* *SEDE FISICA*: Centro Nexa su Internet e Società, Politecnico di Torino, Via Boggio 65/a, Torino (1° piano) Suonare al citofono "Portineria" - Seguire le indicazioni segnalate dai cartelli apposti lungo il percorso (Per maggiori informazioni su come raggiungerci clicca QUI <https://nexa.polito.it/contatti>) *STANZA VIRTUALE*: https://didattica.polito.it/VClass/NexaEvent There is extensive literature on *how expectations and imaginaries about artificial intelligence (AI) guide media and policy discussions*. However, it has not been considered how such imaginaries are activated when users interact with AI technologies. In this presentation, I present findings of a study on *how users on a subreddit discussed ‘training’ their Replika bot girlfriend*. The discussions featured two discursive themes that focused on the *AI imaginary of ideal technology and the gendered imaginary of the ideal bot girlfriend*. Users expected their *AI Replikas* to both be customizable to serve their needs and to have a human-like or sassy mind of their own and not spit out machine-like answers. Users thus projected dominant notions of *male control over technology and women*, mixed with AI and postfeminist fantasies of ostensible independence onto the interactional agents and activated similar scripts embedded in the devices. The vicious feedback loop consolidated dominant scripts on gender and technology whilst appearing novel and created by users. While most research on the use of AI is conducted in applied computer science to improve user experience, this article outlines a *media and cultural studies lens for a critical understanding of these emerging technologies* as they become embedded in communication and meaning-making. BIOGRAFIA - e informazioni supplementari: [Lunch105] *Iliana DEPOUNTI* is an ESRC PhD researcher in Media and Sociology at the University of Loughborough, UK. Iliana holds a BA in Communication from the American College of Greece, an MA in Digital Media Management from Birkbeck University, London and an MSc in Social Science Research from Loughborough University. Her PhD is about care and companionship with robots and she focuses her research on the AI companion chatbot app Replika. In her PhD she uses science and technology studies, cultural studies and sociology to analyze the interpretative flexibility of technological products. Iliana’s research interests lie in AI, robots, human-machine communication, gender, care and consumer culture. *Letture consigliate e link utili:* * https://replika.com/ * Natale S. (2021), /Deceitful Media : Artificial Intelligence and Social Life After the Turing Test/, New York, NY: Oxford University Press. * Saukko P (2018) Digital health: A new medical cosmology? The case of 23andMe online genetic testing platform. /Sociology of Health & Illness/, 40(8): 312–1326. * Leyda J (2016) Cute twenty-first-century post-fembots. In: Dale JP, Goggin J, Leyda J, et al. (eds) /The Aesthetics and Affects of Cuteness/, New York, NY: Routledge, pp.161–184. * Petersen AH (2014) /Jennifer Lawrence and the History of Cool Girls/, BuzzFeed, 24 February. Available at: LINK <https://www.buzzfeed.com/annehelenpetersen/jennifer-lawrence-and-the-histor… > * Brahnam S, Karanikas M, Weaver M (2011) (Un)dressing the interface: Exposing the foundational HCI metaphor “computer is woman”. /Interacting With Computers/, 23(5): 401–412. * Prahalad CK, Ramaswamy V (2004) Co-creating unique value with customers. /Strategy & Leadership/, 32(3): 4–9. Che cosa sono il Centro Nexa e i cicli di incontri “Mercoledì di Nexa” e “Nexa Lunch Seminar” <https://www.facebook.com/nexa.center/> <https://twitter.com/nexacenter> <https://www.youtube.com/user/NexaCenter> <https://www.instagram.com/nexa_center/> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/3054864/admin/> #nexalunchseminar <https://twitter.com/search?q=%23nexalunchseminar&src=typd> #UniversityofLoughborough <https://twitter.com/lborouniversity> #IlianaDepounti <https://twitter.com/IDepounti> Il Centro Nexa su Internet & Società del Politecnico di Torino (Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica), fondato nel 2006, è un centro di ricerca interdisciplinare che, in collaborazione con l’Università di Torino (in particolare il Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza), studia le tecnologie digitali e il loro rapporto con la società. Maggiori informazioni all'indirizzo: http://nexa.polito.it/about. Durante i “Mercoledì di Nexa”, che si tengono *ogni 2° mercoledì del mese alle ore 17 in punto*, il Centro Nexa su Internet e Società apre le sue porte non solo agli esperti e a tutti coloro i quali lavorano con Internet, ma anche a semplici appassionati e cittadini. Il ciclo di incontri intende approfondire, con un linguaggio preciso ma accessibile, i temi legati alla Rete: “intelligenza artificiale”, reti sociali, software libero, capitalismo della sorveglianza, neutralità della rete, libertà di espressione, privacy, condivisione di file, "big data" e "open data", “smart cities”, e molto altro. Al centro della maggior parte degli incontri un ospite pronto a dialogare con i direttori del Centro Nexa, il Prof. Juan Carlos De Martin del Politecnico di Torino, i Proff. Marco Ricolfi e Maurizio Borghi dell'Università di Torino, lo staff, i Fellows del Centro Nexa e tutti i presenti. Maggiori informazioni sui Mercoledì di Nexa, incluso un elenco di tutti i “Mercoledì” passati, sono disponibili all'indirizzo: http://nexa.polito.it/mercoledi. Le registrazioni degli incontri sono disponibili qui: https://nexa.polito.it/audio-video. Si segnala inoltre che dal maggio 2012 *ogni 4° mercoledì* del mese *dalle ore 13 alle ore 14* il Centro Nexa organizza anche i "*Nexa Lunch Seminar*". Una lista di tutti i “Lunch Seminar” passati è disponibile all'indirizzo: http://nexa.polito.it/lunch-seminars. See our events calendar <http://nexa.polito.it/events> if you're curious about future luncheons, discussions, lectures, and conferences not listed in this email. Our events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted. Responsabile Comunicazione Centro Nexa su Internet & Società: *Anita Botta*, tel: +39 011 090 7219, Mob: +39 347 131 3903, anita.botta(a)polito.it. Maggiori informazioni sui Mercoledì di Nexa e i Nexa Lunch Seminar, sono disponibili all'indirizzo: http://nexa.polito.it/events. Weekly Events Newsletter. Sign up <http://nexa.polito.it/mailing-lists> to receive this newsletter if this email was forwarded to you. To manage your subscription preferences, please click here <https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa>. Connect & get involved: Jobs, internships, and more <http://nexa.polito.it/get-involved>. Cordiali saluti, -- Anita Botta Communication Manager Nexa Center for Internet & Society Politecnico di Torino – DAUIN Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 - 10129 Torino web: https://nexa.polito.it/ mail: anita.botta(a)polito.it tel: 011 090 7219

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ChatGPT disabled for users in Italy
by Guido Vetere April 16, 2023

April 16, 2023

*Dear ChatGPT customer, * *We regret to inform you that we have disabled ChatGPT for users in Italy at the request of the Italian Garante.* Attenzione: questa non è l'ennesima idiozia fascista come quella di mettere alcuni cibi contenenti farina di insetti su scaffali separati, o proibire la produzione di carne sintetica, o minacciare multe per chi usa anglismi. No: questa è una cosa che danneggia chi fa uso professionale dei servizi di OpenAI, primi tra tutti gli sviluppatori di software. Non è che i rilievi del Garante non siano fondati, ma se li si dovesse applicare con coerenza dovremmo metterci dietro a un firewall come la Cina. Quindi si tratta di una boutade mediatica, ma stavolta gravemente nociva. G.

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Re: [nexa] ChatGPT: Garante privacy, limitazione provvisoria sospesa se OpenAI adotterà le misure richieste.
by Giuseppe Attardi April 16, 2023

April 16, 2023

La storia della nascita di Unix me l’ha raccontata di persona Ken Thompson. Disse che gli serviva un computer per poter programmare un gioco di scacchi e trovò in un sottoscala un PDP-7 abbandonato e chiese il permesso di utilizzarlo. Tuttavia il sistema operativo della DEC che ci girava era totalmente inadeguato e quindi decise di scrivere il suo, basato su questi tre principi: 1. Tutto è un file 2. Ogni comando è un processo e i processi si combinano attraverso pipe 3. Usare sempre la tecnica più potente disponibile (es espressioni regolari per il file matching) Questo lo venne a raccontare a un seminario che organizzai al Politecnico di Milano nel 1981, insieme a Bill Joy a illustrare la prima installazione di Unix BSD 4.1 fuori dagli USA. Il ruolo di Space Travel viene attribuito all’esperienza acquisita del PDP-7: la versione di Ken era scritta in assembler. One of the factors that made this possible [writing UNIX in assembly] was the proficiency that he had gained with that system while writing an early computer game called Space Travel. — Beppe > On 16 Apr 2023, at 18:50, <nexa-request(a)server-nexa.polito.it> <nexa-request(a)server-nexa.polito.it> wrote: > > From: Antonio <antonio(a)piumarossa.it <mailto:antonio@piumarossa.it>> > To: nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it <mailto:nexa@server-nexa.polito.it> > Subject: Re: [nexa] ChatGPT: Garante privacy, limitazione provvisoria > sospesa se OpenAI adotterà le misure richieste. > Message-ID: <20230416171953.1e96bd154d4b5aa479c7c607(a)piumarossa.it <mailto:20230416171953.1e96bd154d4b5aa479c7c607@piumarossa.it>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > >> Unix fu scritto da Ken Thompson per poter sviluppare il suo programma per il gioco degli scacchi. > > Che Thompson sia stato un grande appassionato di scacchi è cosa nota. > Suo (e di Joe Condon) il computer scacchistico Belle [1] che tra gli anni settanta e ottanta sbaragliava gli avversari /artificiali/. In un'epoca in cui i programmi scacchistici non andavano oltre le 5000 mosse al secondo, il suo Belle ne computava 160000. > Tuttavia, da quello che riporta Wikipedia, il gioco che avrebbe portato alla scrittura di un sistema operativo completamente nuovo e che è andato a costituire il nucleo di Unix è stato Space Travel [2] > > Antonio > > [1] https://es.sonicurlprotection-fra.com/click?PV=2&MSGID=20230416165022062402…) > [2] https://es.sonicurlprotection-fra.com/click?PV=2&MSGID=20230416165022062402… >

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ChatGPT invented a sexual harassment scandal and named a real law prof as the accused
by Benedetto Ponti April 16, 2023

April 16, 2023

ChatGPT invented a sexual harassment scandal and named a real law prof as the accused The AI chatbot can misrepresent key facts with great flourish, even citing a fake Washington Post article as evidence April 5, 2023 at 2:07 p.m. EDT One night last week, the law professor Jonathan Turley got a troubling email. As part of a research study, a fellow lawyer in California had asked the AI chatbot ChatGPT to generate a list of legal scholars who had sexually harassed someone. Turley’s name was on the list. Tech is not your friend. We are. Sign up for The Tech Friend newsletter. The chatbot, created by OpenAI, said Turley had made sexually suggestive comments and attempted to touch a student while on a class trip to Alaska, citing a March 2018 article in The Washington Post as the source of the information. The problem: No such article existed. There had never been a class trip to Alaska. And Turley said he’d never been accused of harassing a student. A regular commentator in the media, Turley had sometimes asked for corrections in news stories. But this time, there was no journalist or editor to call — and no way to correct the record. (continua qui: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/04/05/chatgpt-lies/) --

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Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter
by J.C. DE MARTIN April 16, 2023

April 16, 2023

Primi firmatari: Yoshua Bengio, Stuart Russell, Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak. jc* Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter** * /We call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4. / https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/ // AI systems with human-competitive intelligence can pose profound risks to society and humanity, as shown by extensive research^[1] and acknowledged by top AI labs.^[2] As stated in the widely-endorsed Asilomar AI Principles <https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/ai-principles/>, /Advanced AI could represent a profound change in the history of life on Earth, and should be planned for and managed with commensurate care and resources/. Unfortunately, this level of planning and management is not happening, even though recent months have seen AI labs locked in an out-of-control race to develop and deploy ever more powerful digital minds that no one – not even their creators – can understand, predict, or reliably control. Contemporary AI systems are now becoming human-competitive at general tasks,^[3] and we must ask ourselves: /Should/ we let machines flood our information channels with propaganda and untruth? /Should/ we automate away all the jobs, including the fulfilling ones? /Should/ we develop nonhuman minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete and replace us? /Should/ we risk loss of control of our civilization? Such decisions must not be delegated to unelected tech leaders. *Powerful AI systems should be developed only once we are confident that their effects will be positive and their risks will be manageable.* This confidence must be well justified and increase with the magnitude of a system's potential effects. OpenAI's recent statement regarding artificial general intelligence <https://openai.com/blog/planning-for-agi-and-beyond>, states that /"At some point, it may be important to get independent review before starting to train future systems, and for the most advanced efforts to agree to limit the rate of growth of compute used for creating new models."/ We agree. That point is now. Therefore, *we call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4*. This pause should be public and verifiable, and include all key actors. If such a pause cannot be enacted quickly, governments should step in and institute a moratorium. AI labs and independent experts should use this pause to jointly develop and implement a set of shared safety protocols for advanced AI design and development that are rigorously audited and overseen by independent outside experts. These protocols should ensure that systems adhering to them are safe beyond a reasonable doubt.^[4] This does /not/ mean a pause on AI development in general, merely a stepping back from the dangerous race to ever-larger unpredictable black-box models with emergent capabilities. AI research and development should be refocused on making today's powerful, state-of-the-art systems more accurate, safe, interpretable, transparent, robust, aligned, trustworthy, and loyal. In parallel, AI developers must work with policymakers to dramatically accelerate development of robust AI governance systems. These should at a minimum include: new and capable regulatory authorities dedicated to AI; oversight and tracking of highly capable AI systems and large pools of computational capability; provenance and watermarking systems to help distinguish real from synthetic and to track model leaks; a robust auditing and certification ecosystem; liability for AI-caused harm; robust public funding for technical AI safety research; and well-resourced institutions for coping with the dramatic economic and political disruptions (especially to democracy) that AI will cause. Humanity can enjoy a flourishing future with AI. Having succeeded in creating powerful AI systems, we can now enjoy an "AI summer" in which we reap the rewards, engineer these systems for the clear benefit of all, and give society a chance to adapt. Society has hit pause on other technologies with potentially catastrophic effects on society.^[5] We can do so here. Let's enjoy a long AI summer, not rush unprepared into a fall.

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Algorithmic Disgorgement: Destruction of Artificial Intelligence Models as the FTC's Newest Enforcement Tool for Bad Data
by Stefano Quintarelli April 15, 2023

April 15, 2023

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4382254 The Federal Trade Commission has recently begun to require algorithmic disgorgement in its enforcement of data protection laws – the deletion of not just the improperly obtained data itself, but artificial intelligence models and algorithms built using such data. This Article provides a brief overview of machine learning models and algorithms and the basic function and use of artificial intelligence and describes the FTC’s role in the regulation and enforcement of data collection rules. It then discusses recent enforcement actions brought by the FTC that utilized algorithmic disgorgement, analyzes the legality of the FTC’s authority to order destruction of computer data models and algorithms, and discusses the likelihood and possibility of future use of the new remedy, as well as the shape that any future use is likely to take. Finally, it deliberates on the legal, policy, and practical implications of algorithmic disgorgement and proposes some possible alternatives to and restraints on the FTC’s use of algorithmic destruction orders. non conoscevo queste due recenti sentenze dell'FTC. era quello che scrivevo qui https://blog.quintarelli.it/2023/04/on-chatgpt-and-the-decision-by-the-ital… sarà sempre di più così. ..

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