this is crazy, perhaps the most sweeping action taken by government on AI yet.
Seems like too much consulting jargon and “we know it when we see it” vibes, with few concrete bright-lines. Maybe a lot hinges on enforcement of the dual-use foundation model policy… any chance developers can game the system to avoid qualifying as a dual-use model? Watermarking synthetic content does appear on its face a widely-applicable and helpful requirement.
My general impression is for these sorts of things, vagueness is generally positive, since it gives the executive and individual actors who want to make a name for themselves more leeway, and makes companies less able to wriggle out on technicalities. Contrast with vague RSPs, for which the value of vagueness is in the opposite direction.
But of course this is an executive order, so if enough companies aren’t subject to it based on technicalities, it could easily be changed and re-issued. I don’t know how common this is though.
Garrett responded to the main thrust well, but I will say that watermarking synthetic media seems fairly good as a next step for combating misinformation from AI imo. It’s certainly widely applicable (not really even sure what the thrust of this distinction was) because it is meant to apply to nearly all synthetic content. Why exactly do you think it won’t be helpful?
I agree, I was trying to highlight it as one of the most specific, useful policies from the EO. Understand the confusion given my comment was skeptical overall.
Seems like too much consulting jargon and “we know it when we see it” vibes, with few concrete bright-lines. Maybe a lot hinges on enforcement of the dual-use foundation model policy… any chance developers can game the system to avoid qualifying as a dual-use model? Watermarking synthetic content does appear on its face a widely-applicable and helpful requirement.
My general impression is for these sorts of things, vagueness is generally positive, since it gives the executive and individual actors who want to make a name for themselves more leeway, and makes companies less able to wriggle out on technicalities. Contrast with vague RSPs, for which the value of vagueness is in the opposite direction.
But of course this is an executive order, so if enough companies aren’t subject to it based on technicalities, it could easily be changed and re-issued. I don’t know how common this is though.
Garrett responded to the main thrust well, but I will say that watermarking synthetic media seems fairly good as a next step for combating misinformation from AI imo. It’s certainly widely applicable (not really even sure what the thrust of this distinction was) because it is meant to apply to nearly all synthetic content. Why exactly do you think it won’t be helpful?
I agree, I was trying to highlight it as one of the most specific, useful policies from the EO. Understand the confusion given my comment was skeptical overall.