due tomorrow 👀

The Cass Review couldn't be bothered to talk to actual trans people so they used AI generated images to stand in for trans people.

The deadline for our NAACL workshop is inching really close. Submit your papers, abstracts, art, work-in-progress stuff asap. Post your first versions on Openreview early to avoid any hiccups. Contact us asap if you face any issues.
queerinai.com/naacl-2024

Everyone wants to build a chatbot responsibly, but nobody wants to audit their datasets

#BREAKING : Adam Schiff will introduce legislation for AI models to disclose any copyrighted works used in training. This is an exciting new development taking on generative AI & protecting creators at the national level! billboard.com/business/legal…

✨🌟Job Opening⭐️✨
The Masakhane Research Foundation, through the support of FAIR Forward, an initiative of the German Development Cooperation (GIZ), is glad to announce two Data Governance Fellowship positions. 1/5

'OpenAI plans in the coming months to lean heavily into the idea that U.S. AI companies are a bulwark against China, supporting American economic and national security interests' washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

The idea of Big IP scholars getting together behind closed doors and deciding that it's in fact the people (who laws are supposed to serve) are in a bubble is peak boomer.🤭

Go onto the street and ask people if billion-dollar companies should be able to exploit artists' labor!

If you like this WIRED article on the image generation of queer people (wired.com/story/artifici…) you'll like my paper on the topic aclanthology.org/2023.findings-…

The AI images in the article about how AI images can perpetuate stereotypes about queer people have gone viral, trickling into countless communities with different levels of AI literacy and queerphobia but largely perpetuating those stereotypes 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫☢️☢️☢️

The mismatch on number of LGBTQ+ students and faculty is striking (at least at high research intensity universities in the USA).

Queer in AI invites everyone to send papers, abstracts, position pieces, etc., to our next workshop which will be co-occurring at NAACL 2024 next July.
The deadline is April 10th.
We are looking forward for your submissions!
queerinai.com/naacl-2024

I analyzed a bunch of Suno's output, and found it generates music that closely resembles well-known, copyrighted music: melodies, chord progressions, lyrics, instrumental parts, and styles. This raises serious questions about what it’s trained on.

Here are some examples 👇🧵…

Around 250 artists & songwriters have made a statement in opposition to generative AI using their work without permission to train models that compete with them.

The list includes Billie Eilish, Nicki Minaj, Elvis Costello, R.E.M., Mumford & Sons, Katy Perry and many more.

This…

Willie Agnew | [email protected] Evaluations attempt to stabilize. In sociotechnical systems, stability is linked to social systems, but social systems change over time so they cannot be reliably evaluated in the same way as technical systems can. (Also why 'Teaching to the test' is both bad and incentivized.)

Queer in AI is rapidly growing out policy teams! Please reach out to me if you would like to join. We are working on many impactful policy things, and unfortunately we are often one of the only queer organizations in the room.

I feel like evaluations are a red herring (I know lots of reasons why this is but I think there's something deeper I'm not quite putting together yet)