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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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[–] Eggyhead@lemmings.world 7 points 2 hours ago

He probably doesn’t want to disclose that CSAM was included.

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 65 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

If you've done nothing wrong you have nothing to hide, Elon.

[–] maplesaga@lemmy.world 11 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Trade secrets are evil, everyone knows that. Like who you stole from.

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 19 points 13 hours ago

Isn't that what you tell us, Elon?

[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 195 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

carefully guarded trade secrets

AKA stolen content

[–] negativenull@piefed.world 49 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

AKA Social Security data stolen by DOGE

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 36 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] Dnb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 hours ago

Elon stealing a copy of the epstein files accidently would be hilarious

[–] NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 hours ago

Well we all know musk has desperately wanted to get on the island, who knows, maybe hes got some of those unredacted files in his personal collection

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone -5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Prime@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 hour ago

Why is this down voted? It is essentially true. Source: I work in ml/hpc

[–] ageedizzle@piefed.ca 23 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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?

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 10 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] ageedizzle@piefed.ca 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 5 points 6 hours ago

for large companies, i think you’re probably right… but there are plenty of transactions that happen cash. i think it’s a case of not letting perfect be the enemy of better. some people might lie, and if they get caught that should have some punishment… but we hope that most people don’t lie, because the risk just isn’t worth it

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 91 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Oh no how unfortunate.

Why is his CSAM generator still in app stores?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 38 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

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?

[–] benny@reddthat.com 10 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Monopolists don't want to lose their monopolies.

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 5 points 13 hours ago

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".

Hey, maybe Musk is even right that this will lead to the death of xAI; I do not see a downside in this.

[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 34 points 16 hours ago

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

-Elon Musk and Republicans!

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 34 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

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

[–] sploder@lemmy.world 14 points 14 hours ago

Oh no! Better kys Elon!

[–] db2@lemmy.world 20 points 16 hours ago

Why is that even an option for an illegal alien though

[–] lmagitem@lemmy.zip 8 points 14 hours ago

Some it it will have DOGE as a source.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 10 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

California, the EU of America.

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)
[–] themurphy@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago

That was a proposal never voted through.

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 0 points 13 hours ago

Easy come easy go?

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

has california tried to spy on our chats too?

[–] grue@lemmy.world 9 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

They're working up to it with "age verification" bullshit.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world -4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

you have an article to go with that or is it just your grumbling

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world -2 points 12 hours ago

so, i see that the article mentioned discord's leak, but it did not say that california was going after discord next. that was kind of my point.

yeah, it's identity verification, not age verification, but once they have gone the step of ID verification, why do they need to bother snooping the chats? they already know who you are. they can just pull your online ID and whatever is associated with it. it's one step further in the game, if they get it we've lost whatever anonymity we thought we had (unless we pile the entire family's devices onto one ID and that's an anonymizing tactic but not great).

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

The more you can rattle his cage the better

[–] foodandart@lemmy.zip 7 points 16 hours ago

Awww. Too bad.. so sad...

[–] Smackyroon@lemmy.ml 5 points 16 hours ago

Oh no! Anyways