Some experts warn that the EU’s proposed AI Act would create a legal liability for general-purpose AI systems while simultaneously undermining their development (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review:
A look at the privacy concerns raised by OpenAI’s GPT-3, Google’s LaMDA, Meta’s OPT-175B, and other large language models trained on troves of personal data  —  Large language models are trained on troves of personal data hoovered from the internet.  So I wanted to know: What does it have on me?

Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review:
OpenAI releases a demo of ChatGPT, a chatbot version of GPT-3 that answers follow-up questions, admits its mistakes, challenges incorrect premises, and more  —  A chatbot version of GPT-3 that admits its mistakes is more transparent than the original.  But it’s still not perfect.

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
The European Commission announces the AI Liability Directive, seeking to make it easier to sue makers of AI-based drones, robots, and other products  —  The European Commission on Wednesday proposed rules making it easier for individuals and companies to sue makers of drones …

Financial Times:
WhatsApp’s Will Cathcart warns the UK government against undermining encryption in the Online Safety Bill, arguing the move would embolden authoritarian regimes  —  Moves to undermine messaging encryption could embolden hostile nation states, Will Cathcart says

Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review:
Meta AI and Papers with Code pull Galactica, a large language model to generate scientific text, days after its launch, amid criticism about incorrect results  —  Galactica was supposed to help scientists.  Instead, it mindlessly spat out biased and incorrect nonsense.

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Amazon launches a cost-cutting review focused on unprofitable businesses, including devices unit, which had a $5B annual operating loss in recent years  —  Review takes a close look at devices unit, which includes Alexa and has had an annual operating loss of $5 billion in some recent years, documents show