TL;DR
Human Rights organization Amnesty International produced a research briefing last month documenting "how standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, are in conflict with international human rights law (IHRL) and standards through their design, development and deployment.
While these technologies promise sophisticated automation and efficiency, they rely on data collection and model training practices that abuse privacy rights, enable discrimination, and threaten freedom of expression and thought.
Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, depend on mass invasions of privacy by design, and are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems."
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Amnesty International researched the models powering some of the most popular publicly available standalone generative AI tools, including GPT 3 by Open AI, Google’s Gemini, Meta’s Llama, DeepSeek and tools by Midjourney and Stable Diffusion.
The briefing provides a human rights analysis of the ‘data pipeline’ that powers generative AI products, including the stages of data capture, analysis, and processing that are critical to the overall functioning of these systems.
You can download the brief in the link below:
Although the 40 page brief is only available in English, the summary article at the top is also available in Spanish, French, and Arabic.
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This research brief serves an an excellent argument to use against people who try to force AI on you, especially in the context of work, but also healthcare.