TY Melissa Heikkilä for great reporting: MIT Technology Review Chelsea Finn Lerrel Pinto Sergey Levine Berkeley AI Research technologyreview.com/2024/04/11/109… MIT Technology Review

Experienced tech journalists are doing a good job to demystify AI but 'to report on technological progress while not succumbing to industry narratives always was, and remains, challenging.'

Great to be featured alongside emily bell Zoe Kleinman Melissa Heikkilä et al

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This. It’s all I think about.

Either citizens get involved in tech policy in the 2024 elections, and 𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘥 policies to make sure that AI that is good for humanity, or are we are in deep, deep trouble.

From a great conversation I had with Melissa Heikkilä…

Thanks for having me on the podcast!

On deepfake sexualization, from Melissa Heikkilä: 'The tech sector has thus far been unwilling or unmotivated to make changes that would prevent such material from being created with their tools or shared on their platforms. That is why we need regulation.' ❤️‍🔥

Hey Taylor Swift, those deepfakes were awful. Nobody deserves to have their image exploited like that. But right now, you have a rare opportunity, and momentum, to fight back against deepfake porn and help millions of women and marginalized people. technologyreview.com/2024/01/29/108…

“People with power, like yourself, can fight with money & lawyers. But low-income women, women of color, women fleeing abusive partners, women journalists, & even children are seeing their likeness stolen & pornified, w/no way to seek justice or support.” technologyreview.com/2024/01/29/108…

I am proud of my MIT Technology Review coworker Melissa Heikkilä who has been fighting against the use of AI and deep fakes to sexualize and violate women.

Her open letter to Taylor Swift was especially meaningful to me, and I hope the people in power are listening.

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Hey Taylor Swift , you should read Melissa Heikkilä's letter (and explainer) to help you fight back against deep fakes! Important work at a crucial time 🤓

Fantastic open letter from MIT Technology Review’s Melissa Heikkilä to Taylor Swift.

Pass it along.

Check out the amazing article by Melissa Heikkilä covering this work: technologyreview.com/2023/12/01/108…
With quotes from Jesse Dodge , Lynn Kaack and Vijay Gadepally! 💞

Great work coming from Google DeepMind on medium-range weather forecasting! Thank you Melissa Heikkilä MIT Technology Review for quoting my thoughts on AI-powered forecasts steadily becoming the new normal👇

Nightshade and DATA poison are coming. From the makers of GLAZE, learn how Nightshade completely alters the outputs from prompts in unpredictable ways. This is how WE, artists AND ethical scientists fight back.

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MIT researchers have developed a way to protect photos from deep-fake manipulation by disrupting the AI model’s ability to interpret and generate images, reports Melissa Heikkilä for MIT Technology Review.
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A new data poisoning tool (Nightshade) lets artists fight back against generative AI:

After ~300 poisoned samples, a car can turn into a cow, a handbag into a toaster & a hat into a cake.

Melissa Heikkilä does NOT miss 🔥technologyreview.com/2023/10/23/108…

Artists, best tool we could have asked for to fight this unprecedented exploitation of our labor is here!

Coming from the creators of Glaze at UChicago, Nightshade lets us poison datasets, damage models and teach AI companies to ask for permission first.

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This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI

The tool, called Nightshade, messes up training data in ways that could cause serious damage to image-generating AI models. 

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I really love this project. Using open source models, Ben Zhao's group created a tool that 'confuses' machine learning when it tries to train on artists' work--making the model LESS ABLE to copy artistic concepts, the more it sees them.
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