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Amnesty International generative AI human rights report
Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI - Amnesty International
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“"Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, depend on mass invasions of privacy by design, and are fundamentally incompatible with international human rights law."”
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“> Without significant changes to how these systems are developed and deployed, they will continue to undermine international human rights laws and standards. www. amnesty.org/en/documents/pol40/0996/2026/en/ This is a pretty good report overall. Hard to dis…”
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James Grimmelmann: I know people who do a shitload of web scraping without the consent of the people whose servers and personal data are being scraped. And do you know why they do it? To document human rights violati…
James Grimmelmann: I’m sorry, but “unlawful web scraping” is not itself a human rights violation unless you have a view of either property rights or privacy rights that is itself incompatible with the human right to …
Adverb: I’m sorry, but “unlawful web scraping” is not itself a human rights violation unless you have a view of either property rights or privacy rights that is itself incompatible with the human right to …
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