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Ethical concerns related to building and using AI systems.

2022

For these reasons, I don’t think I’ll be using Midjourney or any similar tool to illustrate my newsletter going forward (an exception would be if I were writing about the technology at a later date and wanted to show examples). Even though the job wouldn’t go to a different, deserving, human artist, I think the optics are shitty, and I do worry about having any role in helping to set any kind of precedent in this direction.

Charlie Warzel

# 4th September 2022, 9:06 pm / ai, ethics, midjourney, generative-ai, text-to-image, ai-ethics

Stable Diffusion is a really big deal

Visit Stable Diffusion is a really big deal

If you haven’t been paying attention to what’s going on with Stable Diffusion, you really should be.

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2018

Text Embedding Models Contain Bias. Here’s Why That Matters (via) Excellent discussion from the Google AI team of the enormous challenge of building machine learning models without accidentally encoding harmful bias in a way that cannot be easily detected.

# 17th April 2018, 8:54 pm / ethics, google, machine-learning, ai, generative-ai, embeddings, ai-ethics