Here’s the kitchen sink for April 5, 2024 of ten stories that I didn’t get to this week – with another brand-new meme from Gates Dogfish!

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Here is the kitchen sink for April 5, 2024 of ten stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

OpenAI’s voice cloning AI model only needs a 15-second sample to work: In their blog post regarding the model, OpenAI says it is “taking a cautious and informed approach to a broader release due to the potential for synthetic voice misuse”. Gee, you think? I think Wednesday, November 6th is a good day to release it.

StabilityAI chief resigns, raising doubts about AI start-up’s future: Apparently, stability doesn’t extend to its leadership team. 😉

Too Sensitive? Emotion AI and the Next Frontier in Digital Innovation: As discussed by Rob Robinson in his excellent ComplexDiscovery blog, just when we think AI can’t get any more human, “Emotion AI is set to become the next disruptive force, transcending the capabilities of Generative AI by detecting and responding to human emotions.” 😮

Maybe We’ve Got The Artificial Intelligence In Law ‘Problem’ All Wrong: Joe Patrice looks at AI as maybe being “too human”, leading to gullible lawyers falling for its hallucinations in Above the Law. He’s probably not a fan of the development in Rob’s blog post.

NYC’s AI chatbot was caught telling businesses to break the law. The city isn’t taking it down: Perfectly logical response to a chatbot that “falsely suggested it is legal for an employer to fire a worker who complains about sexual harassment, doesn’t disclose a pregnancy or refuses to cut their dreadlocks.” And tells restaurants: “Yes, you can still serve the cheese to customers if it has rat bites” if you “inform customers about the situation.” Yeesh.

6 Prompts You Don’t Want Employees Putting in Microsoft Copilot: The point of this sponsored article is to lock down your data before you let your employees loose on Copilot, where they might be making requests like “Show me new employee data” and asking questions like “What bonuses were awarded recently?” Good advice.

Google might make users pay for AI features in search results: Can you blame them? They only made $305.63 billion in revenue last year. So, if you want more racially diverse Nazis be prepared to pony up. 😮

After AI-generated porn report, Washington Lottery pulls down interactive web app: Not a good week for public domain AI models. The lottery’s “Test Drive a Win” website was designed to help visitors visualize various dream vacations they could pay for with their theoretical lottery winnings. The site included the ability to upload a headshot that would be integrated into an AI-generated tableau of what you might look like on that vacation. When one woman did that for her “swim with the sharks” dream vacation, it generated a picture of a topless woman with her headshot. Whoops.

The Power of Green: Sustainable Financing and Its Potential Impact on eDiscovery: I’m a big proponent of sustainability, and Rob Robinson’s article discusses the idea of green computing, which is another key to the sustained (no pun intended – really!) impact of these genAI models, which use massive amounts of energy.

22% of employees admit to breaching company rules with GenAI: Oooh, if only I’d seen these stats before my annual cyber stats post! No wonder that 92% of security pros have security concerns around generative AI!

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for April 5, 2024! Back next week with another edition!

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