In other news, President Biden's executive order on AI emphasizes watermarking and content authentication tools to fight AI-generated misinformation. The White House is encouraging tech companies to create new tools to help consumers discern if audio and visual content is AI-generated. The administration plans to work with the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA), an open-source internet protocol group.
Key takeaways:
- Data brokers in the US are selling sensitive private data about active-duty military members and veterans for as little as $0.12 per record, according to a study by Duke University researchers.
- President Biden's executive order on AI emphasizes on watermarking and content authentication tools to fight AI-generated misinformation.
- AI's impact on free speech online will be one of the topics explored at EmTech MIT 2023, a flagship technology event.
- Large language models that produce human-like text are rising in the tech world, and these models are trained on troves of publicly available human-created text from the internet.