Google paying publishers to use AI tool

Google is paying publishers to use a new AI offering. According to Google, it is primarily intended to help journalists at smaller media outlets with their work, AdWeek reports.

WordPress to sell data to AI companies

Tumblr and WordPress.com are apparently looking to sell user content to AI companies. Talks are reportedly underway with OpenAI and Midjourney, according to 404media.

Jasper integrates Stability AI’s Clipdrop

San Francisco startup Jasper aims to provide the most comprehensive AI marketing assistant. And that includes not only creating and editing text, but also images and graphics. Stability AI acquired Clipdrop a year ago. Source: VentureBeat

Google embarrasses itself with Gemini’s political correctness

We reported on Google’s AI offensive under the “Gemini” banner, but soon after, it was the integrated image generator that made the headlines: It had apparently been steered too much in favor of diversity. What is generally a good idea makes no sense if, for example, you want a picture of the “founding fathers” of …

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RecurseChat brings local AI to your Mac

RecurseChat brings AI chat to the Mac. Well-known alternatives are LM Studio and Jan, which are also available for Windows and Linux. They all offer an easier to understand user interface for self-installed language models.

Notes Ollama brings a local chatbot to your notes

NotesOllama is something for tech-savvy Mac users, but it shows what could be possible in the future. The tool integrates a locally installed chatbot directly into Apple Notes.

Brave Leo AI is an assistant in the browser

Brave Leo AI is an AI assistant built right into the alternative Brave browser. It can summarize documents or answer questions about them. More details here. Now also available for Android.

StealthGPT (supposedly) outwits AI detection tools

StealthGPT promises to modify AI-generated text in such a way that it cannot be recognized by AI detection tools. However, these tools’ effectiveness and reliability is highly controversial anyway.