US and AI regulation - brief notes

 why US tech bros are calling for gov regulation (or in at least one case, self regulation - but why any regulation at all

Firstly

1/ coz EU AI act

and as with DMA/DSA and GDPR , 

will have impact (on US and even on china - 

has done with privacy.

n.b. UK also has a view on new regulation, 

that is not that divergent from EU  - a little lighter perhaps.

2/ specifically problems with training data -

        halluncinations - render tools useless for safety or financial                 critical advice 9health, banking etc)

        copyright - some tools may have been trained on, and reveal, data             that is owned by others without agreement/payment

        consent - may have used personal data without...

        privacy - could threfore constitute an invasion of privact, esp.

        model inversion attacks (we can extract training data from the AI!)

        etc etc

3/ HuggingFace (llama etc) is free software that does most of what the GPT stuff does, but see also google re: leak doc: "we have no moat" and meta's data leak

 

This story recently reported in NY Times  too.

 

The open source systems are also free & free of those problems/constraints on the data (it isn't copyright or private)

which really messes with Microsoft/OpenAI's (Google.Bard etc) business model/case.

Challenges

4/ Self reg benefits big tech 

but worked badly with social media dealing with moderation/toxicity/political 

interference - see proposed online harms bill in UK for example

5/ On the other hand even neutral, government or quasi 

gov agencies are subject to regulatory capture :

c.f. FCC/FDA in US in comms and pharma etc

and Ofcom, ICO in UK in Telecom and data etc

positives

6/ However, the US does have one tech it largely made 

and where regulation/governance is not bad at all -

that's the Internet

so not a simple story