Robert Diab
@robertdiab
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Faculty of Law, TRU | constitutional and human rights, law and technology
Vancouver British Columbia
Joined November 2010
Will AI soon become so good that even pieces in the New Yorker or Atlantic might be synthetic? Will we soon confront a 'textual singularity' -- a takeover by automated text? I weigh the evidence here...
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A high schooler in Toronto used AI to make sexual images of classmates, police weren't sure it was a crime. On the gap in the Code that makes it harder to prevent this...
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RT @CIGIonline: "The Texas and Florida laws banning platform censorship based on viewpoint were obviously on dangerous grounds by overtly d…
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Should social media be forced to give us more control over algorithms? Would it be constitutional? A question I explore here...
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Should this not be left to the market (voting with our feet) -- and what about speech rights on part of the platforms or their advertisers? Just wondering!
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Yes, I was wondering about this…
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RT @EmilyLaidlaw: This is an excellent piece on Bill C-63 and algorithmic content and prompted a great conversation with @robertdiab. My ta…
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RT @IRPP: The Online Harms Act should target social media’s greatest harm. As @robertdiab explains, algorithmic content is what makes TikT…
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Algorithmic content is what makes TikTok and other products so addictive and harmful. Legislation should bring more control of algorithmic feeds.
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RT @CIGIonline: @VassB @KeldonB @robertdiab on why generative AI may not bring about a textual singularity despite growing concerns: https:…
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RT @CIGIonline: Chatbots will not be taking over your favourite literary magazine. "The best policy response to fears of the net being tak…
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“Platforms are replacing nations as our most important social imaginaries”
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RT @mgeist: The @lawbytespod Podcast, Episode 201: Robert Diab (@robertdiab) on the Billion Dollar Lawsuits Launched By Ontario School Boar…
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So the AI police board will be made up of precisely the people to be policed.
This morning the Department of Homeland Security announced the establishment of the Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security Board. The 22 inaugural members include Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Jensen Huang, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai and many others.
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Finished @emollick’s ‘Co-Intelligence’ and found it well worth reading, not least for final chapter on four scenarios for near future of gen AI. Interesting insights on why LLMs not likely to plateau that soon, as some predict.
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How far off we might be from a textual singularity—a moment when all text online will be presumed to be fake?
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Any thoughts on the argument that we’re running out of data to train larger LLMs — we’ve reached a plateau?
Of the major labs, Meta seems to have the most public pessimists about future rapid improvements. OpenAI and Anthropic seem most optimistic team members. Google and Microsoft people seem quite mixed overall. Everyone has incentives to posture, but we will learn a lot more soon.
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