I found myself hard-pressed this year to figure out what to say about privacy in 2024. Of course, I wish you all a happy and healthy new year, but what do we say about privacy in 2024? Have we all become so accustomed to privacy breaches and data breaches by now that we will just…
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence stirs privacy challenges for schools
Mackenzie Wilkes reports: A commercial boom around using artificial intelligence in the classroom is creating a slew of privacy and safety hazards well before Washington grapples with the fast-moving technology. Dozens of Arizona school districts have been vetting technology vendors to weed out products that might use student data for advertising. Schools in West Virginia…
New York Times Sues Microsoft and OpenAI for Copyright Infringement
Mark Bergen reports: The New York Times Co. sued Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI Inc. for using its content to help develop artificial intelligence services, in a sign of the increasingly fraught relationship between the media and a technology that could upend the news industry. The technology firms relied on millions of copyrighted articles to train chatbots like ChatGPT and other…
Microsoft 365 Copilot is here. What are the legal risks of using it?
John Farmer writes: … What are the legal risks of using Copilot? The biggest concern is confidentiality. With many generally available generative AIs, such as ChatGPT, anything you put in a prompt is used in the AI’s training. That creates a risk that your input could appear in someone else’s output. Also, the AI provider…