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MTI’s Core Collaborator Varaidzo Matimba will be at FIFAFRICA! The Forum on Internet Freedom in Africa, hosted by Collaboration on International ICT Policy For East And Southern Africa (CIPESA), is taking place in Mauritius from September 28 to October 1st. Vari is hosting a workshop entitled “Beyond Accuracy, Beyond Borrowed: AI Evaluation Metrics That Count […]
Anthropic’s announcement in August that they would add an invisible digital watermark to any content and metadata generated by their AI sparked quite a bit of debate, including in the MERL sector. Would this solve any of the fake “AI slop” content issues? Would this mean that those who use AI would be judged or […]
