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Ben Brooks

@brooksben.bsky.social

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Fellow @ the Berkman Klein Center, Harvard. Ex-Stability AI, GoogleX (Wing), Uber, Coinbase. Views my own

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Ben Brooks @brooksben.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I'll be at NeurIPS next week speaking about copyright at the workshop on Creativity & AI! It's a good opportunity to look back on a wild couple of years, bringing together the creative and ML communities. Would love to meet up with any open weight / policy folks too! creativity-ai.github.io

creativity-ai.github.io

Workshop on Creativity & Generative AI

A dialogue between machine learning researchers and creative professionals

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Ben Brooks @brooksben.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I wrote in @technologyreview.com recently that if AI summaries (e.g. Perplexity) impact click-thru rates for content—draining eyeballs and ad revenue—that could revive a messy debate over content bargaining. YouTube may be the canary in the coalmine. www.technologyreview.com/2024/10/31/1...

technologyreview.com

AI search could break the web

Developers should act before governments fall back on blunt tools.

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Ben Brooks @brooksben.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Curious to see how creators respond to AI summaries on Youtube. A few more words, and it'll give away the punchline.

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Ben Brooks @brooksben.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Folks have different views, but mine is – governments should regulate narrowly, scrutinize for unintended effects, and promote grassroots innovation around open models in every future reform.

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Ben Brooks @brooksben.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

...and these interventions can disproportionately affect grassroots innovation in open models. They can (i) restrict the public release of capable models, (ii) require the impossible of open developers, or (iii) hold everyday developers to the standard of OpenAI and Meta.

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Ben Brooks @brooksben.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

But one implication is that governments are increasingly focused on model-layer regulatory intervention to solve all these problems...

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Ben Brooks @brooksben.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

And sometimes they represent genuine disagreements about what "really matters" in AI policy (a dispute that will intensify post-election)...

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Ben Brooks @brooksben.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

There are some 1,000 federal and state bills; the Executive Order was the longest in US history; and the AI Act ran to nearly 700 pages at one point. Yet many of these instruments are pulling in different directions. Sometimes these variations are natural...

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Ben Brooks @brooksben.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

There is essentially no consensus about why we're regulating AI, how to regulate AI, or whom to regulate in the tech stack...

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Ben Brooks @brooksben.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Against the backdrop of a noisy AI culture war...

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Ben Brooks @brooksben.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Hello (new) world! Fun to speak at The Curve conference on AI safety in Berkeley last week, where I explained the "crisis of imprecision" in AI regulation, and how it's hurting open source. 🧵 Despite all the activity this legislative session...

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