The United States intends to strengthen legislation and law enforcement to standardize AI development

 ChatGPT, a chat robot developed by OpenAI, has risen rapidly, attracting a large number of fans, and at the same time attracting many competitors including Budd chat robot of Google. The picture shows the seminar on ChatGPT organized by the media service of public education school (data photo).

  ◎ reporter Liu Xia

  In a recent report, the US Capitol Hill website pointed out that the explosive growth of generative artificial intelligence (AI) such as ChatGPT, and the resulting confusion such as the proliferation of false information, prejudice, and changing the labor structure, triggered the concerns of the US federal government. Lawmakers and regulators hope to take concrete actions to eliminate these concerns.

  Cause two key problems

  The Capitol Hill website reported that the development of AI may cause two key problems.

  On the one hand, the recent rise of generative AI tools has brought problems related to the spread of false information. On the other hand, AI that powers automation systems may lead to discrimination.

  The British magazine New Scientist also pointed out that ChatGPT and other chat bots often make factual mistakes, quote completely fictional events or articles, fabricate sexual harassment scandals and falsely accuse real people in cases. The use of ChatGPT has also led to data privacy scandals, involving the disclosure of confidential company data. In addition, images, audio and even videos generated by AI may also lead to large-scale "deep fraud" information, which is proved by the arrest of former US President Trump and the false AI composite photos of Pope Francis wearing fashionable white down jackets.

  The call for strengthening law enforcement is rising.

  The US Federal Trade Commission, the Civil Rights Department of the Ministry of Justice, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently issued a joint statement saying that in view of the increasing use of AI in a series of services, from housing to medical care, they promised to strengthen the enforcement of existing laws, including aiming at solving the possible discrimination of AI and formulating new regulations on development rules.

  Charlotte burrows, president of EEOC, said that the use of advanced technologies, including AI, must comply with federal laws.

  Of course, the joint statement of these institutions mainly focuses on automated systems that use AI, rather than generative AI like ChatGPT.

  Even so, the website of Capitol Hill pointed out in the report, with the soaring popularity of ChatGPT and other chat bots, Google and other companies are constantly launching new products that compete with them. In addition, a group of entrepreneurs including Tesla and Twitter CEO elon musk are also rushing into the industry, which may lead to noise and turmoil, which also highlights the urgent need for policy makers to take relevant measures.

  To cope with the risks brought by AI, the US Congress will weigh the formulation of new laws and regulations, and institutions should also increase the enforcement of existing laws. Because even where existing laws are applicable, it may be difficult to enforce these laws because of the way the AI system works. For example, algorithmic recruitment tools may lead to discrimination, but it is difficult for employees to know whether they have been systematically discriminated against. Therefore, the problems that institutions need to solve are not only how to apply the law, but also how to deal with the challenges brought by the law enforcement process, and how these AI systems will affect the real world.

  Christine Clark, Assistant Minister of Justice in charge of civil rights affairs, also stressed that AI poses a great threat to all kinds of discrimination problems in today’s society, which need more in-depth research and review by policy makers and others.

  Safety management is imperative.

  Earlier this month, US senators announced a proposal to establish a framework for AI regulation, aiming at improving transparency and accountability. In addition, legislators are also prepared to take action to put pressure on the industry on the risks related to the rise of AI technology.

  The Senate Intelligence Committee recently wrote to the CEOs of ChatGPT developers OpenAI, Metauniverse Platform Company, Google, Anthropic and Microsoft, asking them how to deal with security risks when developing large-scale AI models.

  The letter wrote that with the increasing use of AI in most fields and the possibility of the steady integration of large-scale language models into a series of existing systems from medical care to financial sector, it is urgent to emphasize the security issues in the use of AI.

  In response to questions raised by some senators about how to use AI, a spokesman for the American Consumer Technology Association said that the association has been "contributing to the formulation of AI policies, standards and frameworks" with its members.

  Craig Albright, vice president of the American Software Alliance in charge of US government relations, said that Congress can require companies to formulate risk management plans, conduct risk assessments on high-risk use of AI, and define what high-risk cases are, while companies need to conduct impact assessments and design assessments to ensure that they do the right thing.

Hot Search: Will you speak out bravely when the truth is wrapped in interests?


Special feature of 1905 film network Directed, producer and starring, the film will be released nationwide this Friday (December 1st). Previously, this film won the "Most Expected Feature Film Award" at the 36th China Golden Rooster Award Domestic New Film Exhibition, which attracted much attention and expectation from the audience.



The film tells the story that the explosive articles created by Chen Miao (Zhou Dongyu), the editor-in-chief of the media, rushed to the hot search, but caused the female student of the party "bully" to jump off the building. However, a sexual assault case that was accidentally involved in the follow-up made Chen Miao’s partner He Yan (Song Yang) and investor Peng Yue (Justin) involved in it one after another. Public opinion has turned many times, what kind of interest chain is hidden behind the incident, and a public opinion war for the weak has started.


Movies have greater social significance for the current media environment, because the media environment we are in is becoming more and more one-sided, and the fragmented truth replaces the complete truth. At the same time, everyone can speak, seemingly speaking every word independently, but it may also be inadvertently used as a gun.


Public opinion is reversed, and watching movies is like watching reality.


What is "public opinion reversal"? After the release of a news event, network public opinion broke out, new information emerged one after another, the wind direction of public opinion changed constantly, the personnel of the parties reversed, and so on. In the end, this news event disappeared in this post-truth era, making people unable to remember or remember the original appearance of the event.


Xin Yukun, the director, caught this frequent network phenomenon and showed the logical chain behind it to the audience. The film Hot Search tells a story of constant inversion with dramatic effect, and the inversion here is not in the sense of genre, but in the sense of public opinion topic.



The story revolves around Chen Miao (Zhou Dongyu), the editor-in-chief of the media. She is well versed in the traffic code in the Internet era. In order to gain fans and attract investment, she planned many explosive articles and concocted a topic of bullying on campus for girls, which caused the public to have a cyber storm about "bully" Zhang Xiaosui (ornaments), but indirectly led to Zhang Xiaosui’s suicide by jumping off a building.



At this time, Chen Miao accidentally discovered the help information sent by a female student and involved a sexual assault case. The "public opinion reversal" war behind the hot search began, and a group of self-media people relied on the power of words to confront the capital power.


As the beginning of the film, it has already pulled out a very complicated social reality, but the whole truth has to be reversed several times. From the fierce confrontation between characters, it seems that we can see the crisscross of "swords and shadows". In the confrontation of each word, there is no absolute truth, only rumors and truth are constantly intertwined, bringing waves of confrontation.



The best thing about Hot Search is that it deeply dissects the "public opinion reversal" that has become the norm in recent years, and puts the whole process of making hot search on the table to tell everyone why it is sometimes so difficult for victims to speak out.


The law of communication is used and the battlefield of public opinion is formed.


Seeing this film, many viewers will definitely think of the previous and recent Hong Kong drama "The News Queen" and other film and television works. In fact, they all have a common feature that they are concerned about media ethics. The difference of Hot Search is that it not only pays attention to cyber violence, but also pays attention to journalistic professional ethics. It tells a complete, vivid and intuitive story about how the media, especially the online media, affect the generation of public opinion and public opinion.


In the film, a large number of tactics implemented by Chen Miao in the field of public opinion use the propagation laws such as "agenda setting and silence spiral". Combined with the plot and context of the film, it can make the audience understand — — What rules have shaped the public opinion environment in our lives?


For example, Zhou Dongyu plays Chen Miao in the film. She mentioned a very important keyword called "agenda setting", which means that the media greatly enhanced the importance of a news event in the audience’s mind by reporting it intensively or continuously. Today, our media structure is also changing, and more and more reports on current hot spots have emerged from the media, which has improved the timeliness and diversity of news.



On the other hand, the "gatekeeper" mechanism of news has also been weakened to some extent. "Reporting" focuses on showing facts, while "commenting" focuses on showing opinions and leading public opinion. The journalism involved by non-professional organizations and non-professional journalists is gradually deviating from those basic journalistic ethics and professional ethics. It has become an indisputable fact that news rationality and responsibility are sidelined and news perspective is skewed in the new media situation.


In addition, there is the law of "silence spiral" that is often mentioned in the film. In general, "silence spiral" refers to the fact that one party’s silence makes the other party more and more powerful, which leads people to dare to be angry even if they are obviously unfair. Just as the "victim" Zhang Xiaosui’s mother kept her mouth shut about the truth about her daughter’s victimization because of her outdated concept, other victims were also silent at the beginning, and the powerful abusers also used the water army to bring rhythm online, making the victims at the bottom speechless.



However, with the continuous fermentation of public opinion, "anti-spiral silence" has also emerged. It is easier to be noticed that people who hold opinions contrary to public opinion, but their comments will make the people who hold public opinion defect. When a victim is willing to stand up and speak out, more and more people will stand up and speak out, which will condense into the power of public opinion storm. This is also the touching place of this film. Women help women, try their best to save each other and save themselves, and defend the truth and conscience of the world.



Guo Chaoren, the former president of Xinhua News Agency, once encouraged reporters in four words: "There are thousands of properties in the pen, there are disloyalty and treachery in the pen, there are rights and wrongs in the pen, and there are lives in the pen." These four sentences are still four proverbs in today’s media environment!


In today’s internet age, behind every hot search is a struggle for people’s attention, for attention, and for emotion and recognition. Unconsciously, ordinary people have become the targets of being used. The film Hot Search not only reveals the truth in the current new media environment, but also brings us some warnings: online public opinion can destroy a person, but fortunately, brave and sincere voice can also save the next person.


What day is "March 3rd"? Do you know these customs?

        CCTV News:Today is the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar. According to legend, this day is the birthday of Huangdi Xuanyuan, and it is also a traditional festival of the Han nationality and many ethnic minorities. The definition of "March 3" is different in different regions, and the names and customs of festivals are naturally quite different.

        On March 3, I was born in Xuanyuan 

        According to legend, the third day of the third lunar month is the birthday of the Yellow Emperor. Since ancient times, China has had "February 2, the dragon looked up; On March 3, I was born in Xuanyuan.

        The Yellow Emperor was born in the hill of Xuanyuan, so he was called Xuanyuan. Legend has it that he was born a few days ago and could speak. He was quick-witted as a teenager, honest and capable as a youth, and smart and determined as an adult. Huangdi and Yandi are called the ancestors of the Chinese nation.

        In 2008, the State Council identified Xinzheng Huangdi ancestor worship ceremony as the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage expansion projects.

        Xinzheng, Henan Province is the place where the Yellow Emperor was born, started his business and built his capital. Today, Ding Younian’s ancestor worship ceremony was held here.

        Every year, the ancestor worship ceremony in Huangdi’s hometown attracts hundreds of thousands of Chinese people at home and abroad to seek their roots and worship their ancestors, which has become an influential and symbolic cultural business card in the Chinese world.

        Origin of the festival 

        The third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, also known as "Shangsi Festival". It has been popular since the Spring and Autumn Period.

        ■"The Analects of Confucius" has a cloud: "Those who are in the late spring, the spring clothes are accomplished, the champions are five or six people, and the boys are six or seven people. They bathe and dance, and they return with singing." It is about the situation at that time.

        In ancient times, the first third day of March was regarded as "Shangsi". The fourth day usually falls on the third day of March. After Wei and Jin Dynasties, Shangsi Festival is designated as the third day of March, which will be followed by future generations. Shangsi was designated as a festival in the Han Dynasty.

        ■ The Records of Etiquette in the History of the Later Han Dynasty records: "It is the fourth day of the month, and the officials and the people are jié, clean on the east running water. It is said that washing and removing, and staying in the dirty place (chèn, sick) is a big one."

        In addition to bathing, it is also called bathing, that is, bathing by the water. The "Shangsi Festival" is in the season exchange, and the yin has not completely faded, so people are prone to illness. Bathing by the water can get rid of illness and disaster, and pray for happiness.

On March 30, at the women’s adult ceremony in Yancheng, Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, the officiating ceremony was performed for the participants. (Photo/vision china)

        In the Wei and Jin Dynasties, Shangsi Festival was not only a time for babies, but also evolved into a time for royal aristocrats, ministers and scholars to feast by the water, which became another important custom of Shangsi Festival.

        ■"Qu Shui Liu Xiao" is more like a game. The game is that everyone sits at the water’s edge, puts the wine-filled Xiao on the running water, and lets the glass drift downstream and stop in front of anyone. Whoever will drink the wine in the cup and write a poem, or else he will be fined three cups.

        One of the most famous activities in history was that Wang Xizhi and his friends held a Lanting meeting in Huiji, where everyone drank wine and wrote poems and enjoyed the scenery. Wang Xizhi wrote a preface and wrote on the spur of the moment, which achieved a world-famous preface to Lanting Collection, which was praised by later generations as "the best running book in the world".

        After the Tang Dynasty, the custom of "Shangsi Festival" gradually faded out.

        Today’s March 3 rd 

        Today, the third day of March is still a grand and grand festival in some minority areas in southwest China. But in most parts of China, few people know about this festival.

        For example, in Guangxi, the local atmosphere of celebrating March 3 is very strong. This day is the Valentine’s Day of the Zhuang people, and more festival contents derived from this meaning make it the biggest festival of the Zhuang people in a year. Not only the Zhuang people, but also the Dong people in Guizhou, the Li people in Hainan and the Miao people in Xiangxi all take March 3rd as their Valentine’s Day.

        In 2014, the "March 3rd of Zhuang Nationality" was successfully applied for. Every year on the third day of the third lunar month, people in Guangxi enjoy two days’ holiday.

        People of all ethnic groups play like this on March 3.  

        the Zhuangs

        Most of the Zhuang people celebrate the third day of March by catching a song fair, setting up a song shed and holding a song party. Young men and women love each other by singing, touching eggs, throwing hydrangeas. According to legend, it is also called "Song Fairy Festival" because it is a festival to commemorate Liu Sanjie, a singer of Zhuang nationality. Zhuang people usually steam five-color glutinous rice on March 3. In addition, Ai Ba, steamed pork with rice flour and black glutinous rice wine are the special foods of "March 3rd" in Guangxi.

        Zhuang people love five-color glutinous rice very much, and regard it as a symbol of good luck and good harvest.

        Li

        Li people call March 3rd Love Day, which is the same as Hainan Miao Festival. Every year on the third day of the third lunar month, young Li men and women from all over the country gather together to participate in the "March 3" grand event, singing and dancing, and talking about love.

        She (sh) nationality

        On the third day of March every year, she people gather in the ancestral hall, singing songs from morning till dusk, remembering their ancestors, picking leaves of barnyard grass, soaking their tender leaves in sticky rice, cooking black rice, entertaining guests and praying for exorcism.