The Authors Guild published best practices for publishers on Oct. 13 saying no publisher, agent or other person should rely solely on an AI detector to…
Our take An AI detector gives a guess with a confidence score, and a writer's career shouldn't hang on a guess. The Guild's ask is modest: written rules, disclosure, and consent before a manuscript goes into someone else's system. Publishers that want honesty from authors can start by offering it.
The Observer, Case Western Reserve University's student newspaper, said in an Oct. 9 editor's note from its board of directors that using AI to create…
Our take Version history over guesswork: the Observer judges a piece by the record of how it was written, and gives the writer a hearing before it acts. Any newsroom or classroom worried about AI-written work can copy both halves.
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the city's banking regulator, announced an "ART" framework (accountability, resilience and trust) for banks' use of AI…
Our take Name the owner, plan for failure, show your work: a regulator has put that in writing for banks whose AI is starting to act on its own. A registry of material AI agents is the idea other financial regulators should copy before agents spread, not after.
Scripps News published instructions for keeping chatbot conversations out of AI training after OpenAI said its AI agents had posted 53 images uploaded by…
Our take Opt-out by default is consent in reverse: the company takes, and you have to find the switch to make it stop. The switches exist, and anyone who types something private into a chatbot should flip them. With no federal right to opt out, the settings page is the only protection most people get.
The Japan Actors Union, a cooperative of actors and voice actors, released guidelines on Oct. 15 requiring prior consent, with the purpose disclosed…
Our take Consent at every step, pay for every use: Japan's performers have written down what AI developers should have asked first. Guidelines are a floor, not a law, and the government is right to look at closing that gap so a performer's voice stops being free raw material.
Meta now lets smart-glasses users opt out of having "visual data" from camera-based Meta AI interactions used to train its AI models, and says opted-out…
Our take An opt-out is a door, not a default. Meta deserves credit for building one, but it covers what the camera sees, not what the wearer says, and it has to be flipped pair by pair. Every maker of AI wearables should copy the switch and go further: ask before training, and cover voice too.
New York Focus built an AI crawler to check the websites and school board platforms of New York's 678 school districts, had a reporter verify the results…
Our take A policy is a floor, not a lesson plan. While most districts wait on the state, students meet chatbots under whatever rules each classroom improvises. The 39 districts writing policies now can borrow from those that already have one, and the state should stop making them wait.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom approved AB 1979 on Sept. 30, per the Legislature's bill record; the law requires health facilities, clinics and physician…
Our take The rule is simple and right: AI can advise, a licensed human decides. The gap is the veto. A nurse who overrides a bad algorithm still has no shield, the nurses' association says, so judgment protected on paper can still cost a job. Hospitals elsewhere should adopt the rule now, and lawmakers should finish the job.
RANGE Media, a worker-owned newsroom, published an AI policy last revised Sept. 29 that bars staff from using AI to write content or communicate with…
Our take This is a policy, not a mood board: what the newsroom may do, what it will never do, and a human check on every shortcut. Its upload rule is the one every small newsroom, school or nonprofit should copy first: assume anything you paste into an AI tool can be kept, read and trained on.
OpenAI said Oct. 5 that it will add an invisible watermark, called textGrain, to eligible ChatGPT and Codex text output in the European Union over the…
Our take OpenAI says plainly that its watermark fades after a few synonym swaps, and that candor is worth more than the mark itself. It is a label, not a lie detector. Schools, publishers and employers should take OpenAI at its word: no detector result, hit or miss, should decide who wrote something.
YouTube began rolling out labels in YouTube Music on Oct. 14 for songs it says were created primarily with generative AI, such as tracks whose composition…
Our take A label is disclosure, not protection, and listeners are owed at least that. Labels that rest on partners' own declarations could miss the uploaders with most to hide, so YouTube's detection signals are the part to watch. Every streaming service should label this way.