Responsible

Hello, and welcome to Responsible, by ClearOPS, a newsletter about ResponsibleAI and other responsible business practices.

I am sorry this newsletter is late this week! Unforeseeable circumstances but we will be back next Tuesday as usual.

What I have for you this week:

• Politics and Misinformation and AI

• Responsible OpenAI

• Caroline’s weekly musings: I am disgusted

• Chef Maggie recipe of the week

• How to build an AI Governance program

• AI Bites

You know that there is misinformation and disinformation and it is no surprise that Generative AI makes it even easier to create and social media makes it easier to disseminate.

What you may not know are the efforts to fight it.

I will put it out there now. The reason I am so optimistic about the blockchain is because of its public ledger technology. The transparency of each link in the chain is exciting stuff and I think it could be used to fight misinformation and disinformation.

But until we get there, we have to rely on businesses to do this for us and apparently that is what OpenAI did.

Finally, some responsible business practices coming out of OpenAI. 😅

Hype cycles. Honestly, I am so tired of hype cycles.

To me, a hype cycle is: a rise in popularity, a bunch of people overly excited, thwarted by those who are skeptical and, then, ultimately, dismissal of the subject of the hype cycle which becomes its own hype cycle.

That is what happened with the first AI hype cycle in 2019 (what I call the first wave). It happened again in 2021 and 2022 with crypto. 2023 and 2024 is the wave of Generative AI.

James Cuda, the CEO of Procreate, a popular app for creatives, has said that he will not incorporate any Generative AI into the app. Creatives are praising him for the announcement. It makes sense that the company would succumb to the pressure of its own user base, but that fact that it made headlines is what irks me.

I’m going to call it like I see it. Cuda is adopting Responsible AI practices for his business and his users. In this case, the risk of adopting AI was too high and so he decided against it. Kudos to him. (sorry, not sorry, I had to).

Caroline’s musings: