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Sources: OpenAI transcribed 1M+ hours of YouTube videos through Whisper and used the text to train GPT-4; Google also transcribed YouTube videos to harvest text — OpenAI, Google and Meta ignored corporate policies, altered their own rules and discussed skirting copyright law …
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LinkedIn: Ali Manning, Milton Pedraza, Siri Agrell, Nigel Caplan, Mary Gray, Timo Kämäräinen, and Ina Fried
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Sources: Meta debated buying a publisher like Simon & Schuster for AI training data and weighed using copyrighted online data even if that meant facing lawsuits — To make artificial intelligence systems more powerful, tech companies need online data to feed the technology. Here's what to know.
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| Cheyenne MacDonald / Engadget: |
Report: Google changed its privacy policy in June 2022 to more broadly cover its use of publicly available content, including Google Docs, to train AI models — According to The New York Times, the companies may have violated YouTube creators' copyrights. — OpenAI and Google trained …
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Apple updates App Store guidelines, allowing game emulators for the first time globally, and letting music streaming apps in the EU link to external websites — After the EU commission fined Apple $2 billion and announced that it's not satisfied with the changes the company made to comply …
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| Kevin Poireault / Infosecurity: |
Wiz details two now-fixed security issues on the Hugging Face AI platform that put customer data at risk, as Hugging Face partners with Wiz to improve security — Cloud security provider Wiz found two critical architecture flaws in generative AI models uploaded to Hugging Face, the leading hub for sharing AI models and applications.
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| Alexandra Sternlicht / Fortune: |
A look at OnlyFans AI chatbot startups, which are replacing some low-wage workers with bots trained on creators' chats to mimic their dirty talk and upselling — Hey there, it's tech reporter Alexandra Sternlicht. — OnlyFans creators' careers are underwritten by sexting.
Threads: @iamsternlicht. Mastodon: @Lironah@mstdn.games and @carnage4life@mas.to. X: @iamsternlicht. LinkedIn: Alexandra Sternlicht. Forums: r/technology
| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
Email: Galaxy Digital's venture arm, which has long invested its own money, is raising a $100M fund with outside capital, focused on early-stage crypto startups — Galaxy's prolific venture wing plans to start accepting - and investing - outside capital. — Galaxy Digital's venture team …
More: Metaverse Post
| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
A profile of former Tinder CEO Renate Nyborg and her new startup Meeno, which provides an AI-powered chatbot for relationship advice on iOS and has raised $4.9M — Ex-Tinder CEO Renate Nyborg thinks advanced AI can help — By the time Renate Nyborg quit her job in 2022 she had become accustomed …
X: @chloeautio, @katejopling, @ronivey, @tobywalsh, @madhumita29, @tfadell, and @dannygroner
| Lewis Gordon / The Ringer: |
A look at Monument Valley, a puzzle game developed by ustwo that won Apple's design award in 2014 and stood out in a market dominated by free-to-play titles — A scene as still and pure as it is confounding: towers stretching up, flags billowing gently in the wind, stone walkways appearing to defy the principles of architecture.
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| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Source: Y Combinator is inviting some alumni entrepreneurs to invest a minimum of $250,000, which will be split among the three funds it is currently raising — - The accelerator is requiring limited partners invest in all three of its new funds, a somewhat bold move in the current environment.| Matt Binder / Mashable: |
X promoted a fake headline about Iran attacking Israel on its Explore page, after Elon Musk promised “real-time customized news for you created by Grok AI” — The AI-generated false headline was promoted by X in its official trending news section.
More: Wall Street Journal and The Information
X: @rvawonk, @elonmusk, @zaleskiluke, @edzitron, @hasanthehun, and @brettredacted
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers detail how hackers use hijacked Facebook pages to push ads promoting fake AI services to spread malware; a fake Midjourney page had 1.2M followers — Hackers are using Facebook advertisements and hijacked pages to promote fake Artificial Intelligence services, such as MidJourney … | Peter Kafka / Business Insider: |
Filings from FTC lawsuit against Meta: Instagram had $32.4B in ad revenue in 2021, 27% of Meta's revenue and more than YouTube's $28.8B ad revenue in 2021 — - Instagram generated $32.4 billion in ad revenue in 2021, making up 27% of Meta's total revenue. — Instagram's ad revenue …
More: The Verge. Threads: @barbarosozturk, @eshumarneedi, @mostly.borrowed.ideas, @chris, @masiosare, @jbillinson, and @pkafka. X: @pkafka
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