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Microsoft bans US police departments from using enterprise AI tool for facial recognition
Microsoft has changed its terms of service to ban certain police departments from using Azure OpenAI Service.
The changes in terms come a week after Axon, a maker of tech and weapons products for military and law enforcement, announced a that leverages OpenAI’s GPT-4 generative text model to summarize audio from body cameras. Critics were quick to point out the potential pitfalls, like hallucinations(even the best generative AI models today invent facts) and racial biases introduced from the training data (which is especially concerning given that people of color are far more likely to be stopped by police than their white peers). In January, reporting by Bloomberg revealed that OpenAI is working with the Pentagon on a number of projects including cybersecurity capabilities — a departure from the startup’s earlier ban on providing its AI to militaries.
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