Scraping data off the net is feasible for startup AI companies struggling with funding, as it is cheap and a vast amount of data can be collected quickly and easily. The data also has variety as it includes not just websites and social media posts, but also public records and works created by writers, poets, painters, photographers, coders etc. These are data impossible to collect manually.
Source: Data Scraping AI Companies & Writers Fight to Define Future of AI
Anthropic, founded by former researchers from OpenAI, updated its commercial Terms of Service to spell out its ideals and intentions. By carving out the private data of its own customers, Anthropic is solidly differentiating itself from rivals like OpenAI, Amazon and Meta, which do leverage user content to improve their systems.
Source: Anthropic Says It Won’t Use Your Private Data to Train Its AI – Decrypt
Deepdub specializes in localizing entertainment content and generating multilingual voice clones using AI, showcasing the practical applications of generative AI’s advanced applications, which include having voice actors and celebrities narrate a movie in various languages without losing the nuances and tonal inflections that make their voices special and recognizable.
Source: Deepdub CEO on Power of AI Voice Clones to Reshape Streaming
While custom GPTs built by OpenAI are available through the explore tab of ChatGPT Plus, the store would let users share and monetize their GPTs. OpenAI has said it plans to figure out a way to pay GPT creators based on how much their AI agents on the store are used, but it has not released any other details about the plan.
The Justice Department is closing in on what would be the most consequential federal antitrust lawsuit challenging Apple, which is the most valuable tech company in the world. If the lawsuit is filed, American regulators will have sued four of the biggest tech companies for monopolistic business practices in less than five years.
Source: U.S. Moves Closer to Filing Sweeping Antitrust Case Against Apple
While AI poses challenges to provenance, it could also be part of the solution. AI technologies can be leveraged to identify and verify the provenance of digital content, thus ensuring that creators are appropriately credited for their work. This could prove instrumental in enforcing copyright laws and maintaining ethical standards in the rapidly evolving digital landscape.
Source: AI, Copyright and Provenance: Navigating the Digital Age
Rightsholders won a few battles, and lost some, in the EU’s world-leading draft AI law. The bill’s architects are casting it as a balance between the need to protect “fundamental rights, democracy, the rule of law and environmental sustainability” in the face of risks from AI, and the creation of an environment that will enable Europe’s AI businesses to thrive amidst intense global competition.
For the first time in history, humans had a world-altering fact forced on them; sentences do not imply sentience. The crown-jewel of our species, the quality that supposedly entitled us to our special moral status: the ability fluently to manipulate highly complex, abstract language about a near-infinite number of subjects is, undeniably, no longer confined to humans. ChatGPT did what parrots with large vocabularies and chimps that have learned ASL could not.
Source: The Unperson Of 2023
Midjourney, the generative image creation tool perhaps best known for running inside a Discord server, is spreading its AI wings. The creators of Midjourney announced on Tuesday that they plan to introduce a “text to video” model in the next few months. The company will begin training its video models starting in January, CEO David Holz said during an “Office Hour” Discord session.
Under the contract, TME will continue to have access to UMG’s music catalog for QQ Music, Kugou Music, Kuwo Music, and WeSing. The expansive partnership includes music streaming in Dolby Atmos and high-definition (HD) formats. Tencent Music Entertainment is the largest music streaming platform owner in China.
Source: Universal Music Group renews multi-year licensing deal with Tencent Music platforms