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New EU Regulation, Copyright and Quality of Life For Workers

by Ian Clark on 2024-03-19T12:22:00+00:00 | 0 Comments

18th March 2024

On Wednesday 13th March, the EU Parliament approved the Artificial Intelligence Act. Aiming to protect fundamental rights, the new regulation bans the use of certain AI applications that threaten citizens' rights, requires they meet certain transparency requirements and forbids AI technologies that "manipulates human behaviour or exploits people’s vulnerabilities". Source: European Parliament

Research has been published that claims GPT4 produced copyrighted content on 44% of the prompts entered. Copyright Catcher, a copyright detection API by Patronus AI, aims to detect the use of copyrighted materials in order to address concerns around intellectual property violations in generative AI tools. Source: Quartz. Original Research: Patronus AI.

The Institute For The Future Of Work (IFOW) has published a briefing paper exploring the impact of exposure to workplace technologies has on workers' quality of life. The paper argues that "quality of life is negatively correlated with frequency of interaction with newer workplace technologies". Source: IFOW

A high profile journal has published an article featuring an introduction generated by generative AI. The article in question opens with the line "Certainly, here is a possible introduction for your topic:...". Elsevier say they are investigating the paper and are in discussions with the editorial team. This follows another paper recently incorporating AI generated text which included the phrase:

"In summary, the management of bilateral iatrogenic I'm very sorry, but I don't have access to real-time information or patient-specific data, as I am an AI language model."

It's important not only to engage with generative AI itself critically, but also to ensure you are aware of the signs of AI content creation when critically reading any research literature. Source: Technology Networks.


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