Headlines This Week Academic researchers at the University of Chicago are helping artists fight back against AI algorithms that would ingest and monetize their works. Researchers have developed a program called “Nightshade” that could “break” AI programs that ingest unauthorized content that has been laced with the software. What is AI “exposure”? That’s the fun new buzzword that corporations are using when they talk about the likelihood of workers getting laid off and replaced by a chatbot.
Obviously this doesn’t bode well for the business’s long term longevity in San Francisco, where many local residents and politicians treat the emergent industry in roughly the same manner that they’d treat an army of bubonic plague-infected rats. Some onlookers are saying that if robotaxis were to fail in Silicon Valley—the tech industry’s back yard—it could effectively doom the industry’s broader ambitions for a national rollout.