Elon Musk’s xAI has lost its bid for a preliminary injunction that would have temporarily blocked California from enforcing a law that requires AI firms to publicly share information about their training data.

xAI had tried to argue that California’s Assembly Bill 2013 (AB 2013) forced AI firms to disclose carefully guarded trade secrets.

The law requires AI developers whose models are accessible in the state to clearly explain which dataset sources were used to train models, when the data was collected, if the collection is ongoing, and whether the datasets include any data protected by copyrights, trademarks, or patents. Disclosures would also clarify whether companies licensed or purchased training data and whether the training data included any personal information. It would also help consumers assess how much synthetic data was used to train the model, which could serve as a measure of quality.

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    6 hours ago

    Elon Musk’s xAI has lost its bid for a preliminary injunction that would have temporarily blocked California from enforcing a law that requires AI firms to publicly share information about their training data.

    How do you actually enforce this? What’s stopping these companies from just lying about what training data they use?

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      what’s stripping these companies lying about their financial data to tax authorities?

      there are lots of self-report mechanisms that we use… it’s just not worth the blowback of non-disclosure to lie about it. some people do, and sometimes they get caught; not always, but overall it’s a net benefit to transparency

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        I don’t know anything about accounting, but at first blush it seems like tax evasion and so forth would be easier to detect because the government can look at their bank activity and perform random audits, and so on. In contrast I don’t really know what tools we’d use to catch people lying about their training data

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        Don’t forget his child porn image generator, what sort of training data did he use to get that result?

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          If you ask an AI image generator for a bed shaped like a pineapple, it’ll give you one without having a single pineapple-shaped bed in the training data. It has beds and pineapples and it can mash the two together.

          If you’ve got naked adults in the training data and you’ve got children in the training data, it’s going to be able to generate child porn.

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      8 hours ago

      Who is going to remove it? Trump’s friend Tim Cook? Trump’s friend Jeff Bezos? Trump’s friend Sundar Pichai? Or Trump’s friend Satya Nadella?

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          Which of why they are all Trump’s friend. They are the friend of who ever is in power and doesn’t get in the way (or helps) make the stock price larger.

          If Trump disappeared tomorrow and was replaced with a progressive they would change their tune immediately.

          Corporations don’t have morals and have no qualms about being hypocritical. If they are publically traded the only language they speak is “stock go up” and “stock go down”.

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    I DONT care WHERE they got the Data ALL I want is to be Able to make ACCURATE CSAM!

    -Elon Musk and Republicans!

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    Xitter or xAI shouldn‘t be allowed anyway and California cyberlaws are bonkers. I would hope both instances tear each other apart.