What's up? You're reading Inclined AI. Take your Flintstones vitamin, and let’s get into it. _{(if those are even a thing anymore)}

Here's what is still relevant:

• The Supreme Court is stressing us out

• AI’s hottest new trend is the Mirror Test; this test has everything…

• There are times when using ChatGPT for an email is inappropriate

• Magazines are flooded with AI-written short fiction

A CLAUSE THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING

The clause is section 230 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. But wait, that’s not right. It’s section 230 of Title 47 of the Communications Decency Act, which is Title V of the Telecommunications Act of 1996—boy, no wonder people pay for lawyers to find stuff like this.

If you don’t know it, section 230 is a giant shield that helps internet companies host content on their site without being sued for libel. 

The only problem is Meta and Google’s favorite section turned into a vast, overarching legal case buster for every social media site and tech company with a content problem.

AND its potential eradication is a threat to AI.

AI Stumbled into Legal Crosshairs

In the coming months, geriatric legal minds will listen to two cases about section 230. Both legal arguments center around content algorithms and moderation practices. 

You may not be aware of this, but algorithms like YouTube’s recommended feature are a form of weak artificial intelligence.

By narrowly tailoring these cases to these tools, they directly threaten using AI to promote or suggest content.

It can get muddy, but here’s what you need to grasp:

• One can argue that “suggesting” content is what most generative AI does, and companies are liable for what their users create

• Both cases center on the 2015 ISIS terrorists attacks, this puts the question of harm front and center

• Politicians on both sides hate section 230 for different reasons and might use these cases to reform the clause even further

Regardless, watch for the decision in the Summer. No matter what, this will shift behavior.

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WHEN YOU LOOK IN THE MIRROR, WHAT DO YOU SEE?

I see I need to hit the gym, but that’s not the point. James Vincent of The Verge brought up the idea of an “AI Mirror Test.” TL;DR when we look at ChatGPT & Sydney, we see ourselves. That’s a mistake.

The concept stems from the ability to measure animals' self-awareness by whether they recognize themselves in mirrors. For us, the new mirrors are ChatAI, and we’re failing this test like the kid in the back who forgot to study.

Look out Turing Test, there’s a new kid on the block, and it helps pick on intelligent people.

We Tend to Get Overexcited By LLMs

We’re not reinventing the wheel by getting hyped over Sydney and ChatGPT. This new Mirror Test stems from the ELIZA Effect--a tendency for humans to personify AI that mimics the most straightforward human behaviors. ELIZA was an OG AI before the days of GPT.

Sydney is scarily good at replicating human quirks. So when techies got a hold of this mirror, they saw a new human, not themselves.

We forget what data props up this AI; it’s us. 

I argue ChatGPT is filling one of the most prominent media roles. What we read mirrors our society, and all Chat AI nowadays is a powerful, focused version of that role.

Sydney and others will improve at catering to people’s bubbles and “speaking their language.” So don’t fail the mirror test.

Personally, I’d like to see these AI bots become that one mirror from Harry Potter. So a doctor can see a better version of themselves in the AI tools they use, and a writer can see a better version of a writer.

That’s the sort of mirror I’m game for.

Quick Nuggets

🚔 The Fuzz is using AI to work out what people on the run might look like

🔍 The search for equity and unbias using artificial intelligence

😬 Yikes. Vanderbilt apologizes after using AI to write an impersonal email about the MSU shooting that went out to students

✏️ Stranger than fiction; it turns out its AI-written fiction, and it’s flooding magazines’ inboxes

🧠 10 years of learning done in a matter of seconds—2 min. takes on Deep Mind research

🪖 Military AI and a proposed set of principles to instruct the future of it

🚗 Wait, what? a city in California decided to adopt new license plate recognition tech

❗️ Spam issues are hitting Microsoft’s Outlook pretty hard—soft AI is struggling

📺 Brand concerns are growing with the rise of generative AI

🥊 The supply fights back. Journalists want to consent to their work being used to train AI

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