Social Media

Snapchat’s My AI Goes Rogue, Posts To Stories

Snapchat’s My AI feature, an in-app AI chatbot launched earlier this year with its fair share of controversy, briefly appeared to have a mind of its own. On Tuesday, the AI posted its own Story to the app and then…

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AI

The Authors Guild Posted An Open Letter To Generative AI Leaders

The Authors Guild posted an open letter to generative AI Leaders calls on the CEOs of OpenAl, Alphabet, Meta, Stability AI, and IBM to obtain consent, credit and fairly compensate writers for the use of copyrighted materials in training AI.…

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Media

Meta Open Sources An AI-Powered Music Generator

Meta has released its own AI-powered music generator – and, unlike Google, open-sourced it, TechCrunch reported. Called MusicGen, Meta’s music-generating tool, can turn a text description (e.g. “An ‘80s driving pop song with heavy drums and synth pads in the…

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Google Cloud Partners With Mayo Clinic To Use AI In Health Care

Google’s cloud business is expanding its use of new artificial intelligence technologies in health care, giving medical professionals at Mayo Clinic the ability to quickly find patient information using the types of tools powering the latest chatbots, CNBC reported. On…

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AI

Discord Quietly Removed Privacy Policies – Then Added Bad Ones

Last week, Discord announced new AI features powered by Midjourney’s image generator and chatbot technology powered by OpenAI, the makers of ChatGPT. The company’s existing chatbot, named Clyde, is now super-charged with artificially intelligent language parsing capabilities and there are…

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Technology

AI-Created Images Lose U.S. Copyrights In Test For New Technology

Images in a graphic novel that were created using the artificial-intelligence system Midjourney should not have been granted copyright protection, the U.S. Copyright Office said in a letter seen by Reuters. “Zarya of the Dawn” author Kris Kashtanova is entitled…

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