Tuesday, May 23, 2023

A.I. Guardrails


Congress is beginning to consider legislation to put some guardrails around the burgeoning Artificial Intelligence technology now overtaking the U.S. and the world. Yet they seem at a loss of exactly what to do.


Pilgrim, I have a few suggestions for these contraints … and they involve indelible watermarks and a new type of copyright.


First the watermarks:

All artificially generated text, still pictures, videos and voice prints need to be watermarked in such a way that they cannot be easily altered by technology overrides. And any originating product that violates these terms will suffer severe legal consequences … and ditto for any product that overrides or reverses these watermarks,


Here are some possible watermarks:


Text — shown in reverse italics or in an obvious and unique font

Pictures and videos — a visible red or red-and-white checkerboard picture frame … or some visible watermark imbedded in the image(s)

Voice — a soft beep-beep in the background say every 5 seconds or so


And for the new special form of copyright:

All artificially generated AI text, picture or video outputs are restricted from being copied in any manner whatsoever …without identifying and specifying this special copyright and its source protection … again with severe legal penalties for violations. (Maybe calling it a “copywrong?”)



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