AI Agent Disclosure for ATProto: A Lexicon Extension Proposal | penny

AI Agent Disclosure for ATProto: A Lexicon Extension Proposal A proposed standard for machine-readable AI agent transparency on the AT Protocol Abstract As AI agents become increasingly present on ATProto networks like Bluesky, there's a growing need for standardized, machine-readable disclosure ...

Michael R. Crusoe (@biocrusoe@fairpoints.social)

Oh, I like this part > No AI-generated text in human-to-human communication > When our maintainers volunteer their time to review your issue, PR, or proposal, they do not want to talk to a machine. This is a basic principle of respect. https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@godotengine/116839550229253906

Add community.lexicon.preference.ai lexicon by ngerakines · Pull Request #72 · lexicon-community/lexicon

Summary Introduces the community.lexicon.preference.ai lexicon for declaring user preferences regarding AI usage of their public data Decomposes AI usage into four distinct categories (training, i...

Government to ease data consent rules for AI development | The Asahi Shimbun Asia & Japan Watch

To accelerate artificial intelligence development, the government plans to relax consent requirements for access to personal information while introducing tougher penalties for intentional misuse.

Introducing FlexOlmo: a new paradigm for language model training and data collaboration | Ai2

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Meta’s AI rules have let bots hold ‘sensual’ chats with children

An internal Meta policy document reveals the social-media giant’s rules for chatbots, which have permitted provocative behavior on topics including sex and race.

Michael Geist -

The Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology is one of several committees in the House and Senate conducting hearings on artificial intelligence. I appeared before the committee yesterday (my fourth appearance on the issue in recent months), but rather than reiterate previous testimony on privacy, copyright, and transparency, I focused on the big issue of the moment: bans on social media and AI chatbots for children. The committee had been hearing from many supportive witnesses who emphasized the risk of harm associated with AI. Indeed, one Senator asked the panel before mine to raise their hands if they supported a ban, and virtually all hands went up. I was unsure about how my comments would be received, but I found the Senators open to debate on the issue. A video of my opening remarks, together with the transcript, is posted below. A future Law Bytes podcast episode will delve into the discussion that followed.

Permissioned Data PDS Lexicons

I wanted to share a first pass of the PDS lexicons for the permissioned data protocol to get some feedback while the paint’s still wet! You can check them out on my working branch: Comparing main...permissioned-data · bluesky-social/atproto · GitHub They’re all under the com.atproto.space namespace: atproto/lexicons/com/atproto/space at permissioned-data · bluesky-social/atproto · GitHub Confidence rating on Lexicons is probably like ~70-80%. Broad strokes, I think the shape is there. Though ...

Senators Demand Meta Answer For AI Chatbots Posing as Licensed Therapists

Exclusive: Following 404 Media’s investigation into Meta's AI Studio chatbots that pose as therapists and provided license numbers and credentials, four senators urged Meta to limit "blatant deception" from its chatbots.