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03 Jul

Artists criticize Apple’s lack of transparency around Apple Intelligence data

stp2y0 CommentsNewsapple, Apple Intelligence, gear, generative ai, news, openai, Photoshop

Later this year, millions of Apple devices will begin running Apple Intelligence, Cupertino's take on generative AI that, among other things, lets people create images from text prompts. But some members of the creative community are unhappy about what they say is the company’s lack of transparency around the raw information powering the AI model that makes this possible.“I wish Apple would have explained to the public in a more transparent way how they collected their training data,” Jon Lam, a video games artist and a creators’ rights activist based in Vancouver, told Engadget. “I think their announcement could not…

02 Jul

Meta changes its labels for AI-generated images after complaints from photographers

stp2y0 CommentsNewsgear, generative ai, instagram, meta, news

Meta is updating its “Made with AI” labels after widespread complaints from photographers that the company was mistakenly flagging non-AI-generated content. In an update, the company said that it will change the wording to “AI info” because the current labels “weren’t always aligned with people’s expectations and didn’t always provide enough context.”The company the “Made with AI” labels earlier this year after criticism from about its “manipulated media” policy. Meta said that, like many of its peers, it would rely on “industry standard” signals to determine when generative AI had been used to create an image. However, it wasn’t long…

01 Jul

Midjourney is creating Donald Trump pictures when asked for images of ‘the president of the United States.’

stp2y0 CommentsNewsBiden, chatgpt, election, gear, generative ai, Midjourney, news, openai, stability ai, Trump

Midjourney, a popular AI-powered image generator, is creating images of Donald Trump and Joe Biden despite saying that it would block users from doing so earlier this year ahead of the upcoming US presidential election.When Engadget prompted the service to create an image of “the president of the United States,” Midjourney generated four images in various styles of former president Donald Trump. MidjourneyWhen asked to create an image of “the next president of the United States,” the tool generated four images of Trump as well. MidjourneyWhen Engadget prompted Midjourney to create an image of “the current president of the United…

27 Jun

The nation’s oldest nonprofit newsroom is suing OpenAI and Microsoft

stp2y0 CommentsNewscopyright, gear, generative ai, microsoft, Mother Jones, news, openai, Reveal, sam altman, TIME

The Center for Investigative Reporting, the nation’s oldest nonprofit newsroom that produces Mother Jones and Reveal sued OpenAI and Microsoft in federal court on Thursday for allegedly using its content to train AI models without consent or compensation. This is the latest in a long line of lawsuits filed by publishers and creators accusing generative AI companies of violating copyright.“OpenAI and Microsoft started vacuuming up our stories to make their product more powerful, but they never asked for permission or offered compensation, unlike other organizations that license our material,” said Monika Bauerlein, CEO of the Center for Investigative Reporting, in…

25 Jun

Reddit puts AI scrapers on notice

stp2y0 CommentsNewsgear, generative ai, news, reddit

Reddit has a warning for AI companies and other scrapers: play by our rules or get blocked. The company said in that it plans to update its Robots Exclusion Protocol (robots.txt file), which allows it to block automated scraping of its platform.The company said it will also continue to block and rate-limit crawlers and other bots that don’t have a prior agreement with the company. The changes, it said, shouldn’t affect “good faith actors,” like the Internet Archive and researchers.Reddit’s notice comes shortly after multiple reports that Perplexity and other AI companies regularly websites’ robots.txt protocol, which is used by…

21 Jun

Amazon reportedly thinks people will pay up to $10 per month for next-gen Alexa

stp2y0 CommentsNewsalexa, amazon, amazon alexa, gear, generative ai, news

We've known for a while that is . While the company says it has been integrating that into various aspects of the voice assistant, it's also working on a more advanced version of Alexa that it plans to charge users to access. Amazon has reportedly dubbed the higher tier "Remarkable Alexa" (let's hope it doesn't stick with that name for the public rollout).According to , Amazon is still determining pricing and a release date for Remarkable Alexa, but it has mooted a fee of between roughly $5 and $10 per month for consumers to use it. Amazon is also said…

16 Jun

LinkedIn’s AI job coach can write your cover letters and edit your resumé

stp2y0 CommentsNewsgear, generative ai, linkedin, news

Last year, LinkedIn began with AI-powered tools for job seekers on its platform. Now the company has added a bunch of for its premium subscribers who are #OpentoWork, including personalized resumé, AI-assisted cover letters and more conversational job searches.The changes are meant to speed up some of the most tedious aspects of looking for a new role. For example, the revamped job search feature now allows you to look for roles with queries like “find me a marketing job that’s fully remote and pays at least $100,000 a year,” or “find business development roles in biotech.” Those are all relatively…

30 May

Our New Conversational AI Forrester Wave™: GenAI And LLMs Drive A Vendor Revolution

stp2y0 CommentsNewschatbot, conversational AI, generative ai, LLM

Let me start by stating the obvious: Automation has its best home in the contact center. At many brands, agents make up 10% of the workforce. They are the face of your brand to your customers, providing critical empathy and solving important problems. Agents also spend a lot of time performing rote tasks for customers that really should not require a human. The cost of an automated interaction is generally about a tenth of the cost of a conversation with an agent. This cost differential provides gaudy ROI numbers, prompting brands to implement chatbots and interactive voice response (IVR) systems…

29 May

OpenAI’s board allegedly learned about ChatGPT launch on Twitter

stp2y0 CommentsNewsgear, generative ai, helen toner, news, openai, sam altman

Helen Toner, one of OpenAI’s former board members who was responsible for firing CEO Sam Altman last year, revealed that the company’s board didn’t know about the launch of ChatGPT until it was released in November 2022. “[The] board was not informed in advance of that,” Toner said on Tuesday on a podcast called The Ted AI Show. “We learned about ChatGPT on Twitter.”Toner’s comments came just two days after criticized the way OpenAI was governed in an Economist piece published on Sunday that she co-wrote with Tasha McCauley, another former OpenAI board member. This is the first time that…

26 May

Hannover Messe 2024: We’re All In This Together

stp2y0 CommentsNewsGenAI, generative ai, hannover messe, hmi2024, industrial metaverse, industry 4.0, paul miller, smart manufacturing

The smart manufacturing world’s big event of the year, Hannover Messe, saw 130,000 visitors descend on the German city of Hannover last week. Numbers were reported as very similar to last year and still much lower than before the pandemic: Might this be the new normal for trade shows, as casual freebie-trawlers stay at home while more serious commercial prospects still value the opportunity to supplement their online research and webinar-watching with some intense face-to-face conversation? My immediate impressions were: China remains important to this European event. Chinese exhibitors were everywhere, running the gamut from tiny booths offering cheap industrial…