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Title: The US Patent and Trademark Office Banned Staff From Using Generative
AI
Link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/11/19/16482...
An anonymous reader shares a report: The US Patent and Trademark Office
banned the use of generative artificial intelligence for any purpose last
year, citing security concerns with the technology as well as the propensity
of some tools to exhibit "bias, unpredictability, and malicious behavior,"
according to an April 2023 internal guidance memo obtained by WIRED through a
public records request. Jamie Holcombe, the chief information officer of the
USPTO, wrote that the office is "committed to pursuing innovation within our
agency" but are still "working to bring these capabilities to the office in a
responsible way." Paul Fucito, press secretary for the USPTO, clarified to
WIRED that employees can use "state-of-the-art generative AI models" at work -
- but only inside the agency's internal testing environment. "Innovators from
across the USPTO are now using the AI Lab to better understand generative
AI's capabilities and limitations and to prototype AI-powered solutions to
critical business needs," Fucito wrote in an email.
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