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November 25, 2024

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I think the big news this week people are talking about is the school lawsuit. A student from Hingham High School in Massachusetts, a pretty affluent area, used AI and copy-pasted for an assignment and got a 0. The parents sued the school, and the courts upheld the school’s action. This is one of the first major cases of AI “cheating” being covered by the courts in the US, and will set precedent for future cases.

While this case was pretty cut and dry, I think it will be important for the future to clearly delineate the line between cheating and not cheating. More, I think that we will see more lawsuits by people who did not cheat getting penalized by inaccurate AI detectors, as in my second linked article this week. In particular, people with autism and people who learned English as a second language (ESL) are more likely to be falsely accused of using AI.

What do you think?

School did nothing wrong when it punished student for using AI, court rules

Student “indiscriminately copied and pasted text,” including AI hallucinations.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/11/school-did-nothing-wrong-when-it-punished-student-for-using-ai-court-rules

AI inaccurately accuses student of cheating

Student Moira Olmstead was penalized for using AI, but did not. Her lawyers state that people with autism and people who are ESL (English as a second language) speakers are more prone to false accusations of using AI.

www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-10-18/do-ai-detectors-work-students-face-false-cheating-accusations

Child safety org flags new CSAM with AI trained on real child sex abuse images

AI will make it harder to spread CSAM online, child safety org says.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/11/ai-trained-on-real-child-sex-abuse-images-to-detect-new-csam

OpenAI accidentally deleted potential evidence in NY Times copyright lawsuit (updated) | TechCrunch

In a court filing, lawyers for The NY Times and Daily news say that OpenAI accidentally deleted potential evidence against it.

techcrunch.com/2024/11/22/openai-accidentally-deleted-potential-evidence-in-ny-times-copyright-lawsuit

Tens of millions of devices are thrown away each year — and the rise of generative AI will only make this worse

Generative AI could saddle the planet with heaps more hazardous waste than ever before.

www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/tens-of-millions-of-devices-are-thrown-away-each-year-and-the-rise-of-generative-ai-will-only-make-this-worse

OpenAI is funding research into 'AI morality' | TechCrunch

OpenAI is funding academic research at Duke into algorithms that can predict humans' moral judgements.

techcrunch.com/2024/11/22/openai-is-funding-research-into-ai-morality

'It might pave the way for novel forms of artistic expression': Generative AI isn't a threat to artists — it's an opportunity to redefine art itself

Rather than fearing the rise of generative AI, new technologies may allow creatives to define and express themselves in completely new ways.

www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/it-might-pave-the-way-for-novel-forms-of-artistic-expression-generative-ai-isnt-a-threat-to-artists-its-an-opportunity-to-redefine-art-itself

LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman warns against Elon Musk’s ‘conflict of interest’ in setting AI policies | TechCrunch

Reid Hoffman, co-founder at LinkedIn and Inflection AI, shared his expectations for the incoming Trump administration in an opinion piece for the

techcrunch.com/2024/11/22/linkedin-co-founder-reid-hoffman-donald-trump-elon-musks-conflict-of-interest-in-setting-ai-policies

Anthropic raises another $4B from Amazon, makes AWS its 'primary' training partner | TechCrunch

Anthropic has raised an additional $4 billion from Amazon, and has agreed to train its flagship generative AI models primarily on Amazon Web Services

techcrunch.com/2024/11/22/anthropic-raises-an-additional-4b-from-amazon-makes-aws-its-primary-cloud-partner

Apple is reportedly building a more conversational Siri powered by LLMs | TechCrunch

Apple is developing a new version of its voice assistant, Siri, powered by advanced large language models (LLMs), according to sources cited by Bloomberg.

techcrunch.com/2024/11/21/apple-is-reportedly-building-a-more-conversational-siri-powered-by-llms

Salesforce launches AI platform for automated task management

Salesforce Agentforce platform leverages advanced AI, including in-house and third-party models, to automate tasks and streamline workflows.

www.artificialintelligence-news.com/news/salesforce-launches-ai-platform-for-automated-task-management

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