Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Welcome back to The Prompt. Today, a group of 13 current and former employees at both OpenAI and Google Deepmind published an open letter warning that leading AI companies are not doing enough to make their AI systems safe and accusing them of prioritizing profits and growth instead. The letter highlights the l ack of transparency from companies about the risks and limitations of their AI applications, which could “potentially result in human extinction.
” The letter also called for more protections for whistleblowers by developing processes for raising concerns to company decision makers and removing restrictive non-disparagement agreements. This letter is just one more battle line being drawn in the AI industry, where bitter arguments over the right balance of safety and innovation are pitting billionaire versus billionaire, as we’ll discuss later in this edition. Now, let’s get into the headlines.
ETHICS + LAW The Ansel Adams estate publicly chastised Adobe for selling AI-generated stock images in the style of the landscape photographer best known for his black-and-white images of the American West. “You are officially on our last nerve with this behavior,” the estate posted on Threads , adding that it has been trying to reach Adobe since August 2023 to take down the images. In response, Adobe said it removed the images, which violated its AI content policies.
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