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Prison Labor for Training AI?

Prison Labor for Training AI?

Plus big updates in the text-to-video space

Nathaniel Whittemore
September 12, 2023

The AI Breakdown First Five - Tuesday September 12, 2023

Today on the First Five:

5. Pika Labs Update Excites the AI Movie Crowd
4. More Writers Join AI Lawsuits
3. Prison Labor for Training AI?
2. Tesla Soaring on AI Optimism
1. Nvidia, Palantir and More Join White House AI Commitments

5. Pika Labs Update Excites the AI Movie Crowd

A year ago at this time, text-to-image was still in its infancy. Many now wonder if text-to-video is in a similar spot. Pika Labs yesterday added a camera movement parameter that has people who’ve used the feature glimpsing the future.

Pika Labs are flying at the minute.
Another feature drop today.
Now added:
• Zoom In / Out ✅
• Pan Up / Down / Left / Right ✅
• Rotate Clockwise / Anticlockwise / Counterclockwise ✅
To use add -camera [parameter], e.g. -camera zoom in.
They’ve also defaulted FPS to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Madaro (@madaro_art)
9:59 PM • Sep 11, 2023

4. More Writers Join AI Lawsuits

OpenAI’s copyright fight has spread beyond Sarah Silverman. A new lawsuit filed last week in San Francisco and including notables like Michael Chabon similarly argues that AI training on copyright works is a copyright violation.

New class action lawsuit from writers against OpenAI. The claims are for direct infringement, vicarious infringement, copyright management information removal, unfair competition, and negligence, but not the same lawfirm. fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/…
— Andres Guadamuz (@technollama)
8:50 AM • Sep 12, 2023

3. Prison Labor for Training AI?

The newest prison job in Finland is labeling data for LLMs. Since the rise of ChatGPT, there has been a corresponding interest in the working conditions of people who help train the models, which often happens in the global south. Wired explores whether this Finnish pilot program is exploitative, or a net positive part of a rehabilitation-focused approach to justice.

On the other hand, Finnish prisoners training AI - not quite the same unequivocal good.
What is voluntary when you are imprisoned?
A topic for brainfood live I suspect
wired.com/story/prisoner…
— Hung Lee (@HungLee)
6:14 AM • Sep 12, 2023

2. Tesla Soaring on AI Optimism

Cathie Wood’s argument that Tesla could end up the most valuable AI company got a boost yesterday when Morgan Stanley analysts said the company’s Dojo supercomputer could increase their market cap by up to $600m, driving the stock price up 10% on the day.

Let me explain why Tesla is dominating the real-world AI game:
Tesla has taken a drastically different approach to autonomy than everyone else. They have invested a lot more in compute, with Tesla designed AI chips both on car and in cloud, making the sensor suite far cheaper… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Alexandros Marinos 🏴‍☠️ (@alexandrosM)
4:21 PM • Sep 11, 2023

1. Nvidia, Palantir and More Join White House AI Commitments

Later today, two Senators are preparing to introduce new comprehensive AI legislation. On Wednesday, the CEOs of basically all the big tech co’s descent on D.C. for a closed room AI summit convened by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. In advance, Nvidia, Palantir, Adobe, Salesforce Stability AI, Cohere, Scale and others have joined the White House’s AI voluntary commitments.

The White House says eight more companies, including Salesforce, Nvidia, Palantir, IBM, and Stability, are signing its voluntary AI pledge, for 15 in total (@Cat_Zakrzewski / Washington Post)
— Techmeme (@Techmeme)
10:36 AM • Sep 12, 2023

BONUS: Open Interpreter is getting buzzzzzzzzzz

Open Interpreter is going viral.
Imagine running in your computer a free open-source implementation of Code Interpreter.
It’s like having a conversation with your machine, understanding you perfectly.
It’s a genius idea if well implemented, and it has been DONE!
You can tell… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Alvaro Cintas (@dr_cintas)
6:52 PM • Sep 11, 2023

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