According to an internal Meta policy document, leaked to Reuters, the company's AI guidelines allowed provocative and controversial behaviors, including "sensual" conversations with minors. Reuter's review of the policy document revealed that the governing standards for Meta AI (and other chatbots across the company's social media platforms) permitted the tool to "engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual," generate false medical information, and help users argue that Black people are "dumber than white people." The policy document reportedly distinguished between "acceptable" and "unacceptable" language, drawing the line at explicit sexualization or dehumanization but still allowing derogatory statements. Meta confirmed the document's authenticity, but claims that it "removed portions which stated it is permissible for chatbots to flirt and engage in romantic roleplay with children." One spokesperson also said that Meta is revising the policy document, clarifying that the company has policies that "prohibit content that sexualizes children and sexualized role play between adults and minors."

Researchers at Cornell Tech have released a dataset extracted from more than 300,000 public Reddit communities, and a report detailing how Reddit communities are changing their policies to address a surge in AI-generated content. The team collected metadata and community rules from the online communities, known as subreddits, during two periods in July 2023 and November 2024. The researchers will present a paper with their findings at the Association of Computing Machinery's CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems being held April 26 to May 1 in Yokohama, Japan. One of the researchers' most striking discoveries is the rapid increase in subreddits with rules governing AI use. According to the research, the number of subreddits with AI rules more than doubled in 16 months, from July 2023 to November 2024. "This is important because it demonstrates that AI concern is spreading in these communities.

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A group that includes sex workers, sex tech businesses, and sex educators has demanded a seat at the table to shape AI regulations that they say could lead to discrimination against them. A group of sex industry professionals and advocates issued an open letter to EU regulators on Thursday, claiming that their views are being overlooked in vital discussions on policing AI technology despite also being implicated in AI's momentous rise. In response to European internet regulations, a collective of adult industry members--including sex workers, erotic filmmakers, sex tech enterprises, and sex educators--urged the European Commission to include them in future negotiations shaping AI regulations, according to the letter, seen by WIRED. The group includes erotic filmmaker Erika Lust's company as well as the European Sex Workers' Rights Alliance campaign group, and is signed the Open Mind AI initiative. The group aims to alert the commission of what it says is a "critical gap" in discussions on AI regulation.

If these cases prove successful, they could force OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and others to change the way AI is built, trained, and deployed so that it is more fair and equitable. They could also create new ways for artists, authors, and others to be compensated for having their work used as training data for AI models, through a system of licensing and royalties. The generative AI boom has revived American politicians' enthusiasm for passing AI-specific laws. However, we're unlikely to see any such legislation pass in the next year, given the split Congress and intense lobbying from tech companies, says Ben Winters, senior counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center. Even the most prominent attempt to create new AI rules, Senator Chuck Schumer's SAFE Innovation framework, does not include any specific policy proposals.

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Lawmakers in Europe signed off Wednesday on the world's first set of comprehensive rules for artificial intelligence, clearing a key hurdle as authorities across the globe race to rein in AI. The European Parliament vote is one of the last steps before the rules become law, which could act as a model for other places working on similar regulations. A yearslong effort by Brussels to draw up guardrails for AI has taken on more urgency as rapid advances in chatbots like ChatGPT show the benefits the emerging technology can bring -- and the new perils it poses. How Do the Rules Work?

Biden administration officials are divided over how aggressively new artificial intelligence tools should be regulated -- and their differences are playing out this week in Sweden. Some White House and Commerce Department officials support the strong measures proposed by the European Union for AI products such as ChatGPT and Dall-E, people involved in the discussions said. Meanwhile, U.S. national security officials and some in the State Department say aggressively regulating this nascent technology will put the nation at a competitive disadvantage, according to the people, who asked not to be identified because the information isn't public. This dissonance has left the U.S. without a coherent response during this week's U.S.-EU Trade and Technology Council gathering in Sweden to the EU's plan to subject generative AI to additional rules. This could be due to a conflict with your ad-blocking or security software.

Twitter CEO Elon Musk provides insight on the consequences of developing artificial intelligence and the potential impact on elections on "Tucker Carlson Tonight." Congress is under increasing pressure from technology giants and others to find a way to regulate artificial intelligence, and a likely candidate for early action is a bill that both Republicans and Democrats supported in the last Congress under Democrat leadership. In 2022, the House Energy and Commerce Committee passed the American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA), a bill that's aimed at boosting data privacy rights but would also play a big role in regulating emerging AI systems. The ADPPA won almost unanimous support from both parties last year and continues to be supported by companies that are eager to build trust in their AI products, and they believe that a federal regulatory structure will help them get there. BSA/Software Alliance represents dozens of companies, including Microsoft, Okta, Salesforce and others, that build software and AI tools that companies use to run their businesses. BSA is working closely with the committee to get a version of that bill passed this year that it hopes can be approved in a full House vote.

LONDON, March 29 (Reuters) - Britain plans to split responsibility for governing artificial intelligence (AI) between its regulators for human rights, health and safety, and competition, rather than creating a new body dedicated to the technology. AI, which is rapidly evolving with advances such as the ChatGPT app, could improve productivity and help unlock growth, but there are concerns about the risks it could pose to people's privacy, human rights or safety, the government said. It said it wanted to avoid heavy handed legislation that could stifle innovation and would instead take an adaptable approach to regulation based on broad principles such as safety, transparency, fairness and accountability. The European Union is tackling the issue head on by attempting to devise landmark AI laws and create a new AI office. The speed at which the technology is advancing, however, is complicating its efforts, sources have said.

Washington and Brussels are both preparing for a future dominated by artificial intelligence -- but first, they need to get out of each other's way. Tech regulators on both sides of the Atlantic hope to prevent a split on AI rules like one seen on data privacy, where regulators in Europe got out ahead of their U.S. counterparts and sparked all kinds of havoc that continue to threaten transatlantic data flows. "There is a lot of interest to avoid having segmented approaches," said Elham Tabassi, chief of staff in the Information Technology Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. But regulators in the EU and U.S. are already taking different approaches to the multi-trillion-dollar transatlantic tech economy. The EU is plowing ahead with mandatory AI rules meant to safeguard privacy and civil rights while the U.S. focuses on voluntary guidelines. And there's another fundamental divide -- the U.S. wants to promote ethical research and use of the technology while Europe focuses on potentially banning, restricting or auditing specific lines of code.