ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and Meta’s Llama should be deemed ‘high risk’, a Senate committee has found, with executives in the firing line for their appearances.
Artificial intelligence chatbots ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and Meta’s Llama should be deemed “high-risk” and subjected to mandatory transparency, testing and accountability requirements, a Senate inquiry has found, with executives from US tech giants facing heavy criticism for repeatedly dodging its questions.
After nine months of hearings, the committee handed down its final report, issuing 13 recommendations including sweeping EU-style legislation that would introduce guardrails against high-risk AI use cases across the economy. “All three companies repeatedly referred the committee to their privacy policies and terms of use as justification for the use of some user data to train their AI products. A recent study found that it would take an Australian 46 hours a month on average to read every privacy policy they encounter.”, an AI chatbot interjected during a Google executive’s testimony, causing senators to ask whether artificial intelligence had been used to help prepare her responses.
The committee recommended a sweeping new ‘AI act’ to regulate use of the technology, a concept that has been supported by Human Rights organisations and media companies, but criticised by tech companies including Atlassian and Australia’s big four banks as going too far. “It’s heartening to see the Senate recognise what creators have been saying, that these AI products work by stealing from artists,” Claire Pullen, chief executive of the Australian Writers’ Guild, told this masthead.
Independent senator David Pocock said the report was valuable, but the government had been too slow to respond to the impact of AI on the daily lives of Australians.
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