Watermarks Won't Settle It. Provenance Might Help.
Invisible watermarks on AI content are easy to strip and easy to skip. Documenting where authentic content came from is a quieter, more promising idea.
by Dev Raman
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Regulation, safety, rights and the rules being written right now.
A Policy Researcher on Writing Rules for a Technology That Won't Sit Still
Uses versus models, rules that expire, sandboxes that aren't loopholes: Theo Brooks talks with a nonpartisan researcher who tries to get both sides of the AI debate in one room.
by Theo Brooks
Four Ways to Regulate AI, Explained Without the Jargon
Risk tiers, sector rules, liability and licensing: a plain-language, side-free guide to the main approaches governments use, plus five questions to ask about any new proposal.
by Lena Hartmann
Who Owns a Voice? The Messy Ethics of Synthetic Sound-Alikes
A narrator hears himself reading a book he never recorded. Voice cloning has legitimate uses and real victims. A framework for consent, credit, compensation and control.
by Priya Sethi
The Case for Boring AI Audits
We have plenty of AI principles. What we need is the tedious, regular, standardized checking that made financial numbers trustworthy.
by Maya Okafor
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