This week online: facial recognition, AI, copyright and code
Starting us off is this excellent thread, highlighted by friends of Immerse, Anagram, on the rise of facial recognition software.
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There’s been ample reportage on software faltering and compounding bias alongside general growing fear about heightened surveillance. How does the technology make you feel?
Elsewhere online, lots of conversation about GitHub’s AI programming assistant, Copilot. Nora Tindall revealed in a popular thread that she received confirmation from GitHub Support that the AI was trained on all of the platform’s public code, regardless of copyright license.
This has sparked a lot of debate about ownership online, corporate responsibility with regard to copyright, and how we train artificial intelligence moving forward. This is brand new territory and stimulating discussion; explore the replies for yourself!
Let us know in the replies what you think!
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