Responsible, by ClearOPS

I did it again but at least you were expecting it this time. I was out of town last week and I just could not get my act together to send out this newsletter. It turned out to be a bit of an unplug because in France, I did not pick up on as many AI conversations as I normally do. That might be because I don’t speak French.

I really want to grow this newsletter and I am struggling with how to do it, so I decided to put more of my LinkedIn posts with the vague hope that you might comment on one of them and tell people to subscribe. 🙏🏻

What I have for you this week:

• Snippets - we all love them

• Caroline’s weekly AI Governance tips

• Chef Maggie Recommends

• AI Bites

I am a little offended this week. Kevin Fumai, who I follow on LinkedIn and has risen in popularity due to his AI governance themed posts, shared a post this morning…and he did not mention me. Usually, I am not one given to hubris but in this post he gives readers a list of his favorite AI governance newsletters and other audio and visual sources and this newsletter was not amongst the chosen few. Sniff. Sniff.

But I will generously link to his post because you deserve it.

You know how much I love Chef Maggie but what you don’t know is that sometimes I use it to count calories. Yup, yours truly sometimes tries to lose weight. LOL. I have been using the Lose It! app for years, but I hate using it to count calories for homemade meals because it is clunky. During my son’s lacrosse game a couple of weeks ago, one of the moms mentioned Cal AI, an app her son uses. She explained to me that it is viral amongst high schoolers so of course I had to look it up! Sure enough, this 17 or 18 year old founder used a strategy involving influencers and friends to help him get the word out and is making a ton of money. It is actually a worthwhile story to read, especially if you have teenagers on the college path.

But the question in my head is: what does it say that a calorie counting app is viral amongst teenagers? Alarm bells are going off in my head.

Are you living under a rock? Well, of course you aren’t, but if you are unaware of the ChatGPT upgrade this past week, let me fill you in. It now offers long term memory. And people love it. I even saw one guy who was pissed off because OpenAI is not offering it in the UK! That would be because of UK privacy laws, in case you were wondering. Anyway, I am going to caution your use. Make sure you test and understand “Temporary Chat” and, if you are using the free version of ChatGPT, do not use this new feature unless you want to be remembered in the training data - which is maybe a strategy worth explaining?

There is a major gap in lawyers drafting AI clauses in commercial agreements and it is buyer beware out there. On one side, lawyers are recommending to their clients who are vendors to push for broad permissions to use AI. On the other side, representing the customers, are lawyers who draft language completely banning all AI (and they really only should mean to be banning publicly available GenAI).

In the middle is the regular flow of commerce that is facing a significant disruption. And we thought GDPR was bad.