More Government regulation: AI is currently the hot topic of the day. It is in its infancy and the government is already making waves to regulate it. Just what we need

rcarol

AI is currently the hot topic of the day. It is in its infancy and the government is already making waves to regulate it. Just what we need - more government regulation.

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

The fun thing is watching them try to regulate something they don't understand.
--Bob

rcarol wrote:

AI is currently the hot topic of the day. It is in its infancy and the government is already making waves to regulate it. Just what we need - more government regulation.

rcarol

rmalarz wrote:

The fun thing is watching them try to regulate something they don't understand.
--Bob

So true.

Wyantry Loc: SW Colorado

rmalarz wrote:

The fun thing is watching them try to regulate something they don't understand.
--Bob

True enough!

Although it had not stopped them in the past, either . . . .

Indiana Loc: Huntington, Indiana

So, In the literary world, if you submit a literary piece that you claim to be written by your own hand, but in actuality you borrowed the words from others, it is called plagiarism, and is grounds for punishment from academic dismissal to professional persecution. So now we have AI, with the ability to write novels, plays, and any sort of document we desire with virtually no repercussion for presenting it as our own effort. The needed control, as I see it, is a regulation that requires source admission with penalties for non-adherence. If the work is yours, and yours alone, declare it so. If not, identify the source. The same type of system could work for photography.

rcarol

Indiana wrote:

So, In the literary world, if you submit a literar... (show quote)

A regulation as you are proposing will only serve to make the attorneys more wealthy.

cliff Hilbert Loc: Plano, TX

rmalarz wrote:

The fun thing is watching them try to regulate something they don't understand.
--Bob

Is there anything they DO understand, besides spend, spend, spend, raise taxes, raise taxes, raise taxes?

JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

The AI industry itself is asking for regulation, as they are worried about what bad effects it could have. Unlike the fossil fuel, tobacco, and social media companies who lied and lied until they were forced to admit the truth. The responsible AI companies need to come up with suggestions they can agree on since lawmakers may well not understand the issues.

DaveO Loc: Northeast CT

cliff Hilbert wrote:

Is there anything they DO understand, besides spend, spend, spend, raise taxes, raise taxes, raise taxes?

They needed money to bail out the Texas electrical grid that Texas had established to eliminate some fed regulations.

tcthome Loc: NJ

rmalarz wrote:

The fun thing is watching them try to regulate something they don't understand.
--Bob

Someone will just AI the regs into something else!

junglejim1949 Loc: Sacramento,CA

rmalarz wrote:

The fun thing is watching them try to regulate something they don't understand.
--Bob

True

fourlocks Loc: Londonderry, NH

JohnSwanda wrote:

The AI industry itself is asking for regulation, as they are worried about what bad effects it could have. Unlike the fossil fuel, tobacco, and social media companies who lied and lied until they were forced to admit the truth. The responsible AI companies need to come up with suggestions they can agree on since lawmakers may well not understand the issues.

That's a good point. As inept and slow as it is, the government is the only agency to protect the population from the rash, greed-driven decisions businesses make in developing and selling a new product. If the AI industry came up with an intelligent, effective form of self-regulation maybe the government would leave them alone.

LoisCroft Loc: Jonesborough, Tennessee

When do they ever understand what they are regulating?

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I see what happens in other countries with inadequate regulation. One reason for plane crashes is regulations that were put into effect too late. The FAA makes "recommendations." In a crash analysis I watched last night, the FAA made recommendations that weren't put into effect for over twenty years, and at least one plane crashed as a result of the delay. Making changes costs airlines money, and they don't like spending money.

People don't like being told what they can and can't do, but they complain when there wasn't a regulation that could have avoided a tragedy.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

fourlocks wrote:

That's a good point. As inept and slow as it is, the government is the only agency to protect the population from the rash, greed-driven decisions businesses make in developing and selling a new product. If the AI industry came up with an intelligent, effective form of self-regulation maybe the government would leave them alone.

And then there are the lobbyists.