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Senate Republican demands Google shut down AI model over false rape allegation

FOX News

Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., accused Google's AI Gemma of generating false sexual assault allegations against her and other conservatives in a letter to CEO Sundar Pichai.


Senators Reject 10-Year Ban on State-Level AI Regulation, In Blow to Big Tech

TIME - Tech

Earlier in the week, Blackburn attempted to forge a compromise with Ted Cruz, who led the provision. Together, they produced a new version that reduced the ten-year ban to a five-year one, and carved out exceptions for laws related to kids' online safety and personal publicity rights. But this version of the bill was promptly excoriated by vocal coalitions in both parties. A group of 140 mostly left-leaning advocacy organizations, including Encode AI and Common Sense Media, penned an open letter arguing that this new version actually shielded tech companies from the state regulation that Blackburn was attempting to protect. "The vague standards set out in the moratorium will provide Big Tech a clear path to challenge nearly any state law in court," the letter read.


Republicans scrap deal in 'big, beautiful bill' to lower restrictions on states' AI regulations

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A deal that had been reached between Sens. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Ted Cruz, R-Texas, over how states can regulate artificial intelligence has been pulled from President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful" bill. The collapsed agreement would have required states seeking to access hundreds of millions of dollars in AI infrastructure funding in the "big, beautiful" bill to refrain from adopting new regulations on the technology for five years, a compromise down from the original 10 years. It also included carveouts to regulate child sexual abuse material, unauthorized use of a person's likeness and other deceptive practices. Blackburn announced Monday night that she is withdrawing her support for the agreement. A deal between Sens. Marsha Blackburn and Ted Cruz over how states can regulate AI has been pulled from the "big, beautiful" bill.


Alarming number of Americans scammed out of life savings have one thing in common, prompting lawmaker response

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EXCLUSIVE: As romance scams are on the rise, a bipartisan group of lawmakers is introducing new legislation aimed at holding accountable those who seek to defraud retirees and steal their hard-earned savings. U.S. Sens. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., and Rep. David Valadao, R-Calif., introduced the Romance Scam Prevention Act, which would require dating apps and services to issue fraud ban notifications to users who have interacted with a person removed from the app. The move came as Americans are more than ever connected thanks to social media and dating apps that allow us to stay in touch with old friends all over the world and to develop new relationships online. As Americans increasingly go online in search of relationships, scammers are following suit. According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), in 2022 almost 70,000 people reported being victims of a romance scam.


Trump's posting of AI images of Taylor Swift and her fans supporting him triggers media outcry

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Former FBI Special Agent Nicole Parker joins'Cavuto Live' to weigh in on the cancellation of the Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna due to a terror plot. Former President Trump promoted images on Sunday, including some generated through artificial intelligence, showing apparent support from singer Taylor Swift and her fans, triggering a widespread media outcry. Trump posted a collage of Swift-related images to his Truth Social account showing apparent support from the pop star and her diehard fans known as "Swifties." One doctored image played off the classic Uncle Sam recruiting posters, showing Swift in red, white and blue with the caption, "Taylor Swift Wants You To Vote For Donald Trump." Over the images, he wrote, "I accept!"


Three senators introduce bill to protect artists and journalists from unauthorized AI use

Engadget

Three US Senators introduced a bill that aims to rein in the rise and use of AI generated content and deepfakes by protecting the work of artists, songwriters and journalists. The Content Original Protection and Integrity from Edited and Deepfaked Media (COPIED) Act was introduced to the Senate Friday morning. The bill is a bipartisan effort authorized by Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), according to a press alert issued by Blackburn's office. The COPIED ACT would, if enacted, create transparency standards through the National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST) to set guidelines for "content provenance information, watermarking, and synthetic content detection," according to the press release.


DOLOMITES: Domain-Specific Long-Form Methodical Tasks

Malaviya, Chaitanya, Agrawal, Priyanka, Ganchev, Kuzman, Srinivasan, Pranesh, Huot, Fantine, Berant, Jonathan, Yatskar, Mark, Das, Dipanjan, Lapata, Mirella, Alberti, Chris

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Experts in various fields routinely perform methodical writing tasks to plan, organize, and report their work. From a clinician writing a differential diagnosis for a patient, to a teacher writing a lesson plan for students, these tasks are pervasive, requiring to methodically generate structured long-form output for a given input. We develop a typology of methodical tasks structured in the form of a task objective, procedure, input, and output, and introduce DoLoMiTes, a novel benchmark with specifications for 519 such tasks elicited from hundreds of experts from across 25 fields. Our benchmark further contains specific instantiations of methodical tasks with concrete input and output examples (1,857 in total) which we obtain by collecting expert revisions of up to 10 model-generated examples of each task. We use these examples to evaluate contemporary language models highlighting that automating methodical tasks is a challenging long-form generation problem, as it requires performing complex inferences, while drawing upon the given context as well as domain knowledge.


Fear at 10:' Senators' concerns spike on impact of artificial intelligence 'to change votes' in 2024

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Presidential campaigns are already using content generated by artificial intelligence. Some senators said they're concerned how the development will impact the 2024 election. WASHINGTON, D.C. – Artificial intelligence's ability to trick voters creates a significant threat for the 2024 elections, several senators told Fox News. "On a scale of one to 10, I would put my fear at 10 so far as the potential abuses for impersonation, false visual images, deepfakes, voice cloning," Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat, told Fox News. "Consumers deserve to know when the deepfakes and cloned voices occur."


Blackburn calls for federal internet privacy standard as concerns about online AI use soar

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Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., shares her takeaways from Tuesday's AI hearing with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. She also reveals what next steps she and her colleagues are prepared to take to protect consumer data amid the AI boom. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., is calling on Congress to pass an internet user privacy standard as a first step toward making sure Americans are knowledgeable and their data safe amid the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) technology. Blackburn is one of four Republicans on the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on intellectual property (IP). The panel is holding a hearing Wednesday afternoon titled, "Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property – Part I: Patents, Innovation, and Competition."


Nashville musicians worried AI could deprive them of their right to make a living: Sen. Blackburn

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Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., shares her takeaways from Tuesday's AI hearing with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. She also reveals what next steps she and her colleagues are prepared to take to protect consumer data amid the AI boom. EXCLUSIVE: Nashville musicians are increasingly worried about complications with artificial intelligence's growing sophistication that could threaten their livelihood, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., warned this week. "We met with the Nashville Technology Council a couple of weeks ago, and we have talked with so many of the musicians. They're concerned that using AI, they will do a copycat of their voice and take the lyrics of their song, which you can get on ChatGPT," Blackburn told Fox News Digital during an interview in her Senate office.