Privacy research group urges NIST alignment with global codes of conduct for synthetic data guide

The World Privacy Forum, a member of NIST’s AI Safety Institute Consortium, is urging the agency to hew closely to international standards development processes as it advances synthetic content guidance under an artificial intelligence executive order and in work at the new consortium.

“WPF has concerns regarding ad hoc standards developed outside of [Standards Development Organization] codes of conduct such as those established at [the International Standards Organization], among other entities. Quasi-standards and methods created primarily by entities that may...