In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission is also looking closely at how companies collect data and use artificial intelligence algorithms. Earlier this year, the FTC forced weight-loss company Weight Watchers to destroy data and algorithms because it illegally collected data on children.Epic, which makes games like Fortnite, avoided the same fate in late December agree A $520 million settlement was reached.Regulators spent this year collect feedback Potential rules on how companies handle data and build algorithms, chair Lina Khan Say The agency intends to protect Americans from unlawful commercial surveillance and data security practices with “urgency and rigor.”
In China, the authorities recently prohibit Creation of deepfakes without the consent of the subject. With the AI bill, Europeans want to add warning signs that people are interacting with deepfakes or AI-generated images, audio or video.
All of these regulations could affect how tech companies build, use and sell AI technologies. Regulators, however, must strike a delicate balance between protecting consumers and not thwarting innovation — something tech lobbyists aren’t afraid to remind them of.
AI is a rapidly evolving field, and the challenge will be to keep the rules precise enough to be effective, but not so specific that they quickly become outdated. Like the EU’s efforts to regulate data protection, if the new law is implemented correctly, next year could usher in a long-awaited era of AI development with greater respect for privacy and fairness.
—Melissa Hekkira
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Big tech isn’t the only player at the forefront of artificial intelligence; an open-source revolution has begun to rival, and sometimes surpass, what the wealthiest labs are doing.
In 2022, we see the first community-built multilingual large-scale language models, bloom, Posted by Hugging Face.We’ve also seen an explosion of innovation around Stable Diffusion, an open-source text-to-image AI model that rivals OpenAI’s Dahl-E 2.
