#Ethical guidelines

[monriatitans]

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The rapid rise of generative artificial intelligence—capable of producing text, images, and audio with minimal human input—has revolutionized the marketing world. While these technologies unlock innovative opportunities for efficiency and creativity, they also introduce critical challenges that demand immediate attention:

Risk of Misinformation: AI-generated content can be highly convincing, and without clear labeling, it risks deceiving consumers or spreading false information.

Lack of Oversight: There is little consistency in guidelines governing AI-generated material, leaving room for unethical practices such as spam, manipulated reviews, and deepfake endorsements.

Privacy Concerns: Many AI tools rely on extensive data collection, which, without proper safeguards, may lead to breaches of privacy laws or misuse of sensitive information.

Why Action Is Needed Now

Unprecedented Growth: AI-driven marketing tools are being adopted faster than regulators can act, creating a gap in oversight.

Threat to Consumer Trust: As AI-generated ads, social media posts, and emails flood digital spaces, it becomes harder for users to discern authentic content from automated material.

Potential for Harm: Left unchecked, AI tools could fuel disinformation campaigns, fraudulent activities, and unethical marketing practices on a scale never seen before.

A Call for Clear and Ethical Guidelines

We urge regulators, marketing organizations, and technology leaders to develop and enforce practical standards for AI use in marketing. These include:

Mandatory Transparency Require that all AI-generated marketing content is clearly labeled, helping consumers identify machine-generated material in product descriptions, blog posts, advertisements, and beyond.

Data Privacy Protections Strengthen safeguards to ensure AI platforms handle consumer data responsibly and with explicit consent.

Promoting Ethical Use Through Education Advocate for widespread industry training on ethical AI practices, focusing on reducing misinformation, bias, and unethical manipulation in marketing.

Accountability Measures Introduce penalties for those who exploit AI to create harmful or deceptive content, with oversight from regulatory bodies and industry stakeholders.

Why It Matters

Supporting this petition means backing a future where AI enhances, rather than undermines, the integrity of digital marketing. Transparent and responsible practices will protect consumer trust, encourage fair competition, and ensure that AI’s potential benefits are realized without compromising ethical standards.

By signing, you champion the ethical evolution of AI in marketing and take a stand for transparency and accountability.

Sign the petition here!

More info: How Invalley Handles AI Detection

[joncronshawauthor]

How to Use Assassin Fantasy as Self-Help Books: A Morbid Guide to Personal Development

Who needs self-help gurus peddling the power of positive thinking when you’ve got cloaked figures traipsing through the night, dispatching enemies with a flick of the wrist? Ah, yes—assassin fantasy novels, those gripping tomes of life-and-death scenarios and moral ambiguity, offer more than just a good read. Believe it or not, they’re also stellar self-help manuals. Allow me to guide you…

[fjordfolk]

every time someone in a discussion about breeding for BOAS reduction in pugs says to 'look up this program called Retromops' i slip a little arsenic into the produce section at the grocery store

[brucewaynehater101]

i want you to know that i scroll through your posts and interactions just to find all your fic recs and open new ao3 tabs.

your tim parenting Bruce au has destroyed me and I love it so much thank you for your service.

do you have any more particularly gut wrenching aus cooking up in your genius noggin?

Heeeey. How'd you know I had a new AU I haven't released yet?

But before we get into that, thank you for the compliments. Angst is my favorite flavor.

As far the AU, you know the saying, "You either die as a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain"?

I feel like that could fit Tim so well.

How I imagine the AU to start out would be Tim as Robin. He's in the batcave with Bruce as the man is showing him a particularly devastating case. Bruce, his mentor but not his father, turns to Tim with a grimmace.

"There's a reason we have a code, Tim."

They both glance at Jason's memorial and Bruce's hands start to shake.

"As much as we may want to give in to our desires and emotions, we can't stoop down to their level. There needs to be lines we won't cross, even for the greater good."

Azure eyes snap to arctic ones, begging for the younger to understand.

"We do this to protect others, even those who are twisted and foul. We aren't the judges or executioners."

Tim nods in agreement, and Bruce's shoulders lose a little of their tension. The older man pats the teen's shoulder in pride before his attention goes back to the murder case.

Tim, as Robin, had many interactions with Bruce that shaped who he was as a vigilante. How much force to apply when fighting, what lines to cross, and acceptable codes of conduct were taught to the kid in several instances. It didn't matter that Bruce himself had broken them or that, on very rare occasions, Dick also broke them. They were rules Tim was expected to follow, and they were reasonable lines. Of course, Tim did everything he could to meet those standards. He may have trained with Lady Shiva, and YJ may get into so whacky ordeals, but there's no excuse to go outside of those bounds.

It became difficult, though, when Jason beat Tim into the floor of Titan's Tower. When Jason, after hurting several family members, was welcomed back. It became a strain on Tim when Bruce enacted the 16th Birthday present fiasco or Tim found out about what the man had done to Dick (the bruise he left on Dick's face after Jason's passing). It was demanding to follow those rules when Damian came into the picture and when Dick handed him Robin.

When Tim found that painting of Bruce, when Dick and the JL turned their backs on him, when YJ wasn't there to support him, some part of Tim said "fuck it." Why should he follow standards he had to leash Bruce into obeying? The man wasn't even here anymore.

He still tried, but he gave less effort to it. He didn't want Bruce to find out when he returned after all.

But Tim? He never returned from that desert. As far as the Bats become aware after Tim sends them the data for Bruce and then blows up the bases, Tim died in the explosions he caused.

And the rest of the AU goes into Tim exploring how the guidelines Bruce gave him were bullshit, so he slowly starts to let more and more go until he has no moral bounds anymore. He's seen Bruce, Jason, Damian, Barbara, Alfred, and Dick all break one or more of these "rules" that were placed on Tim. So why should Tim go along with it?

What does it matter if he betrays, manipulates, tortures, and kills if it saves the most people? What does it matter if he commits suffering if he's helping people?

Until, one day, Bart and Kon are on the other side of the battlefield from Tim. While Bart is steadfast in defeating Tim (no matter how much it pains him), Kon is devastated that Tim never told him he was alive. He doesn't even care that Tim is a villain. If he had just asked, Kon would've joined him.

It's too late now. Bart needs Tim to stop, Tim can't let Kon join him, and Kon is torn between his duty and his friend.

So Tim does what he always does, he sacrifices himself. He allows them to take him into holding, executes his plan to murder all villains left, places restrictions on the JL (so they'll never hurt anyone the way they hurt Tim and abandoned his friends again), and then Tim disappears. Bart opposing Tim was the sign that Tim was in the wrong. He knows that. If he wasn't, Bart would've been on Tim's side no matter how morally grey he got.

Tim had crossed into the black.

He became what he always feared he might one day be.

[altar-s]

Why is it always the people who aren't into kink that have the loudest opinions of what consenting adults do

[allbeendonebefore]

boss changing last names to first names to make quotes sound more personable and im like ok cool so... are we making smith's quotes "danielle" then...?

[aflamethatneverdies]

@pilferingapples it is more egregious because all these articles written by Global North academics are talking about decolonising the field of bioethics, they're talking about importance of listening to and recognising research in healthcare from Global South and yet, how do you expect this to happen in the unequal system that persists in academia?? I can easily find articles about bioethics from US, UK, EU, Australia etc. There is dearth of information from Global South and the ones that are published are behind a paywall. The least, the extreme bare minimum these journals can do is make it open access, waive the fees. But, no! All their arguments are for their research papers. No one actually wants to do what they are so eager to publish. And that kinda sucks, imo.

[mattersuite]

AI Ethics Opinions: Bar Associations’ Guidance on AI Implementation

Unsure about AI in your law practice? Bar associations offer valuable guidance. Explore their ethical opinions on AI use cases to ensure responsible integration. Stay ahead of the curve and embrace ethical AI to empower your practice.

[necronatural]

people spreading misinfo about what misinfo was being spread as criticism for the protests against project moon obliteration beam. shut the fuck up

[byakuyasdarling]

I think a good thing about being away from social media though is just caring so much less about all the internet argument stuff. It’s so much less stressful just focusing on me and my health and the people close to me.

Especially with AI stuff. Of course I don’t agree with it scraping from artists but I love when artists reclaim it as a tool and I think it should be used as such. You can’t stop a program from existing, it’s useless. But you can make guidelines to ensure it’s uses are ethical and practical — basically to make jobs easier and not over-work artists, not to replace them.

I think there’s so much to still work-out in that regard, obviously.

Another thing that used to stress me out was those “press 3 buttons to save my pet” videos. I always try to do the copy link think and get interactions up but it started triggering me my anxiety which wasn’t good. Have you guys experienced that, and how did you deal with it? /gen

[fazcinatingblog]

I think the exam was a lot better than I expected!!!! Maybe I will actually check the results on December 1st!!!!! Maybe.

[lovesour]

musings below

[obstinaterixatrix]

this falls into ‘if everyone would just’ venting so don’t take it too seriously but it severely irks me when people are addressing a specific problem from a specific population and do so in a completely ineffective way, you’re not talking to the people this relates to you’re talking to yourself. that’s fine but effective rhetoric is understanding an audience and tailoring your argument to what is most effective against them, not what would be most effective against you. pathos, logos, ethos, whatever the fuck. all communication is manipulation and you are not putting nearly enough effort into manipulation.

[imbalanceofhumors]

Hey guys, I'm just inputting a paper that discusses the use of osteological 3D scans of human remains here (because of the history of bone stealing scandals that this website has):

Interaction with human remains has been a long-standing & I'm glad if interacting with these models sparks anyone's interest in medical or osteological 3D imagining! It's a relatively new field that's exciting & developing fast. But in these cases it's best to also keep in mind the ethical issues related to the field that most people are not necessarily aware of, such as who are these scans from, how old are the remains, have the people given consent for the scans & where are these scans from geographically. The scans are not even necesarily from people, the scans might just be artistic renditions of bones or other organs. These are a variety of reasons why these scans exist, ranging from educating medical or anthropological students to having information from publicly-funded studies available to said public. The paper I've linked above has a useful set of guidelines about 3D scans that are very interesting to read about :)

Tl;dr: I'd urge people to read more about the ethics of 3D scans of human remains & proceed with those in mind! Please remember to remain respectful if the scans are from deceased people.

i feel like the knowledge that there are some medical databases with free-to-use 3D scans of various human organs available for 3D printing would have drastically reduced tumblrs amount of bone stealing scandals. plus you can make ones that glow in the dark.

look at my glow in the dark humerus boy

[brazilian-whalien52]

I feel the same way about how that interaction with the psychologist ended in episode 3.

I get that she was there to complete an assessment and not to provide therapy but what she did has likely soured Jamie against any future mental health professionals who are there to help him. She has made their job a lot harder because now Jamie is not likely to engage with them because he will believe that they will also run off like Briony did after he has opened up.

I get that she is human and was in a stressful situation where emotions were running high but wish she had a little more foresight how her actions were going to influence how Jamie perceives mental health professionals from there on.

Right? I am glad that I am not the only one that saw that. It just feels that in the last five minutes of the session she was acting more like a cop than a psychologist. I do understand it's a tv show and the scene end there because it's dramatic to see him being carried away after the confession. But honestly, important to point out that is not ethically how a psychologist should act