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“I think we might just have to say goodbye to finding out about the truth in a quick way” thank you MIT Technology Review Melissa Heikkilä for letting me share my views on deepfakes, truth, & trust in the digital world technologyreview.com/2024/04/25/109… Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society Oxford Internet Institute Universität Wien

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Got my hands on the latest issue of MIT Technology Review with a story I wrote on the cover! It's about how advances in AI are helping roboticists bring us closer to the field's holy grail: Useful home robots. technologyreview.com/2024/04/11/109… 📷

Thank you Rhiannon Williams (and Melissa Heikkilä) for covering in MIT Technology Review our Google DeepMind study with 20 professional comedians evaluating LLMs and their... ahem... various limitations for creative writing. With Juliette Love Kory Mathewson Shakir Mohamed technologyreview.com/2024/06/17/109…

Great piece by Melissa Heikkilä on our ICML Conference paper on copyright traps.

It's hard for artists and others to prove their work has been scraped to train AI. Now they might have a weapon to fight back and prove it. Melissa Heikkilä with the story. technologyreview.com/2024/07/25/109…

Until now, it's has been hard to know whether specific text has been used in AI training. New “copyright traps” could help writers do that by subtly marking work in order to later detect whether it has been used in AI models or not. New from me MIT Technology Review technologyreview.com/2024/07/25/109…

Meet The Glaze Project, at UChicago, the AI lab behind Glaze and Nightshade, two prominent weapons in an artist’s arsenal against nonconsensual AI scraping. The lab wants to tilt the balance of power from Big Tech back to individual creators. But are their tools enough?technologyreview.com/2024/11/13/110…

“I just hope that no one truly falls for it and gets tricked into crypto scams.” I spoke to Melissa Heikkilä about the issues I’ve faced with impersonators on Bluesky. I hope the devs can address this soon. technologyreview.com/2024/12/11/110…

✨New Report✨ Our data ecosystem audit across text, speech, and video (✏️,📢,📽️) finds: 📈 Rising reliance on web, synthetic, and YouTube data. 🛑 80%+ datasets carry hidden restrictions. 🌍 Relative representation in languages and creators has not improved for 10+ yrs.

New research reveals a worrying trend: AI's data practices risk concentrating power overwhelmingly in the hands of dominant technology companies. I spoke w/Shayne Longpre Sara Hooker Sarah Myers West Giada Pistilli about what this says about the state of AI technologyreview.com/2024/12/18/110…

Data isn’t a naturally occurring resource; it’s shaped by the intentions and design of those collecting it - this means that tech firms’ advantage in data collection reshapes infrastructures in their own interests. Read more in this really critical piece by Melissa Heikkilä:

This needs to be a much stronger focus of esp. policy conversation. Would love to hear labor and civil society orgs in general weigh in on what it means for them (nothing good unfortunately) - here to chat more with whoever's interested 👋

Just shared my thoughts with MIT Technology Review on AI's data problem. After years studying cultural biases in AI, the new findings are unsurprising but concerning: with training data overwhelmingly coming from Western, English-language sources, we're building AI systems that perpetuate

Welcome to the FT’s newest AI reporter Melissa Heikkilä who has come out the gate swinging. Her piece explaining the thing everyone wants to know: what makes DeepSeek innovative? ft.com/content/ea8031…

The "how the hell did they do that" DeepSeek explainer for the rest of us that you've been waiting for, from the Financial Times's new AI reporter Melissa Heikkilä enterprise-sharing.ft.com/redeem/38f5a13…

On my first day as the Financial Times's new AI reporter, the stock market crashed and Silicon Valley freaked out about DeepSeek's AI model. 😅 But what exactly was DeepSeek's breakthrough? I read their research paper. Here's why it's a big deal: enterprise-sharing.ft.com/redeem/94db9f3…

While the world has been hunting for clues about the mysterious DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng, I hopped on a plane down to Guangdong to visit the village where he grew up. Liang returned to Mililing 米历岭村 for the Lunar New Year celebration with his family this week.

Architects of the EU’s landmark artificial intelligence act have urged Brussels in a letter to halt “dangerous” moves to water down the upcoming AI code of practice. With Melissa Heikkilä ft.com/content/9051af…

Scoop: DeepMind slows down publishing "strategic" research as it seeks to retain a competitive edge in the race to dominate AI. "The company has shifted to one that cares more about product and less about getting research results out for the public good." on.ft.com/41S9m7e