Web-crawled pretraining datasets underlie the impressive "zero-shot" evaluation performance of multimodal models, such as CLIP for classification/retrieval and Stable-Diffusion for image generation. However, it is unclear how meaningful the notion of "zero-shot" generalization is for such multimodal...

Past work has sought to design AI ethics interventions-such as checklists or toolkits-to help practitioners design more ethical AI systems. However, other work demonstrates how these interventions and the principles they're based on may serve to instead limit critique to those addressed within the...

The Digital Services Act (DSA) is a much awaited platforms liability reform in the European Union that was adopted on 1 November 2022 with the ambition to set a global example in terms of accountability and transparency. Among other obligations, the DSA emphasizes the need for online platforms to...