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   Timnit Gebru (she/her) (timnitgebru@dair-community.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2025 01:48:08 JST Timnit Gebru (she/her)

   "California legislators have begun debating a bill (A.B. 412) that would require AI developers to track and disclose every registered copyrighted work used in AI training. At first glance, this might sound like a reasonable step toward transparency. But it’s an impossible standard that could crush small AI startups and developers while giving big tech firms even more power."

   Trash take.
   https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/californias-ab-412-bill-could-crush-startups-and-cement-big-tech-ai-monopoly

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     Timnit Gebru (she/her) (timnitgebru@dair-community.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2025 01:48:07 JST Timnit Gebru (she/her)

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     Whether you're a small restaurant or not you have to ensure that you're not stealing your ingredients. So why is this any different?

     What about the 1-2 person creative startups? Who is protecting their works in a society that devalues artists so much that "starving artist" is an expectation?

     Mr. Bill, Aral Balkan and Anil Dash and 2 others repeated this.
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     Timnit Gebru (she/her) (timnitgebru@dair-community.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2025 01:48:21 JST Timnit Gebru (she/her)

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     The idea that you shouldn't be expected to know what data you're using to train your systems and that doing so is "an impossible task" is so normalized that its hard to know that this was not always the case even in the field of AI.

     Data theft and scraping became completely normalized, along with the exploitation of crowdworkers, with the advent of photo sharing and other platforms and others like amazon mechanical turk.

     So now NOT exploiting people and stealing data is the anomaly.