🤖 New Tool Poisons AI Models

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• Nightshade is a poisonous AI tool

• The FCC is worried about the future of Robocalls

• D-ID launched a new app

• The EU is struggling to make the AI Act official

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There’s an imbalance between AI companies and the source of their data.

Unless you fight tooth and nail to block these people from scraping your data, odds are your creative work will end up in the hands of one research lab or another.

Some University of Chicago researchers noticed this effect and decided to give some power back to the people through a tool called Nightshade.

Nightshade is poison for AI models. 

The concept is not new. Plenty of developers know how to corrupt an AI’s training set and ruin the deep learning process from working right.

What makes Nightshade unique is the scale at which the poison works. Just a few images laced with Nightshade can corrupt an entire training set.

How is that even possible?

The way this tool works is simple. The artist adds the tool to their image before uploading it to the web. This process changes the pixel in a way that’s not recognizable to the human eye but is picked up by the model.

That altered pixel provides instructions that throw off the entire training set.

For example, if you ask for a dog in your image, the model will produce a cat. And researchers can’t spot the altered pixel, which means they may end up tossing the entire dataset as a result.

That’s the power of this poison.

But handing this off to the public is a different problem we’ll need to solve before making this a reality.

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Robocalls are the bane of my existence.

I hate them. I’m sure you do, too. But there doesn’t seem to be a damn thing we can do about them.

Things will get worse before they get better, too. AI is making it easier for these scammers to find numbers, make convincing bots, and call with routine ease.

No hero on this planet can save us from this spam.

Don’t tell that to the FCC, though, because they’re going to give it the old college try. They announced this week that they’re launching a special investigation into this issue.

Hope is on the way, and their name is Jessica Rosenworcel.

They’ve proposed using AI to combat AI so that fewer and fewer Robocalls make it through this firewall. You can picture it now: phones that don’t vibrate, lines that don’t ring, and an actual moment of silence.

Of course, this idea is theoretical right now. They must go through all the bureaucratic malaise before we get a whiff of this technology.

In the meantime, remember to sign up for the National Do Not Call Registry…even if it doesn’t work.

🇪🇺 EU lawmakers show signs that they haven’t settled on the AI Act yet

🏫 College dropouts believe that leaving school now gives them the best chance to ride the AI wave

📊 Gen AI Models are sucking up all the data they can get their hands on, including yours

🎵 YouTube adds a feature to let you generate custom covers for the playlist you make

💸 Nivida ally raises $200m in debt by using their AI chips as collateral

🏛️ The workers training AI demand that Congress do more to protect their rights

🚫 PimEyes, a face search engine, does the right thing and blocks any child faces on their site

📹 D-ID adds a new app that lets you turn any photo into an AI video

• Talently - screens candidates for any role (link)

• Chatdox - personal AI assistant (link)

• Questgen - generate quizzes from any text (link)

• PriceParrot - one-click, competitor pricing analytics (link)

• Sixty - stay in touch w/ everyone w/o wasting time (link)

• Leonardo Labs - create your AI clone w/ video (link)

• Askflow - helps customers to make informed decisions (link)

• Prescene - script coverage & analysis (link)

Silly Firefighters

The fact they made this look like a children’s cartoon is top-tier meme-level stuff.

_{- That’s it for today. I hope you enjoyed the latest edition of inclined.ai - Davis.}