This week, the companies building artificial intelligence are facing a limit to what training data is publicly available on the internet. Will that stop them from building God? Then, a new bipartisan national privacy law proposal just dropped. We ask what’s in it. And finally, ByteDance is building new apps instead of fighting Congress’s TikTok ban.

Chapters

00:00:00 Cicada Meth
00:01:38 This Week on Hard Fork
00:02:23 AI Data Race (inbreeding AI)
00:27:15 Surprise Privacy Bill
00:49:04 TikTok Can’t Be Killed


Today’s Guests:
Trevor Hughes, president and C.E.O. of the International Association of Privacy Professionals


Additional Reading:
How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/06/te...


For DataGuzzling A.I. Companies, the Internet Is Too Small
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/aitraini...


Lawmakers unveil sprawling plan to expand online privacy protections
https://www.washingtonpost.com/techno...


TikTok Turns to Nuns, Veterans and Ranchers in Marketing Blitz
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/04/bu...



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