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The EU and the US want to strengthen their cooperation in the field of AI, particularly in the areas of security, governance, and research into risks and beneficial applications. They are calling on platforms to facilitate access to data for researchers to better study societal risks. Source: TechCrunch
Snapchat is also focusing on greater transparency and stricter guidelines for the use of AI. Any image generated with Snap AI will be tagged with a new watermark. Source: TechCrunch
The Facebook company Meta plans to display labels for AI-generated content more frequently starting in May. Previously, these labels only appeared in very specific cases, reports Axios.
Intel confirms that Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant will soon run locally on PCs powered by its chips. Intel’s Lunar Lake processors, due out at the end of the year, are expected to deliver three times the AI performance of current Meteor Lake chips, meeting the needs of the next generation of AI PCs.
In an open letter, more than 200 famous musicians, including Billie Eilish and Katy Perry, call on technology companies and AI developers not to violate artists’ rights and devalue their work. The signatories emphasize that AI, when used responsibly, can enhance human creativity. However, they warn that some platforms and developers are misusing the technology … Read more
Scammers have used the faces and voices of women from social media to create fake ads for offensive products using AI technology. Although the victims feel that their personal rights have been violated, there seems to be little legal recourse against this new form of identity theft, as the perpetrators are difficult to catch and … Read more
Google.org launches a $20 million grant program for nonprofit organizations developing generative AI technologies. The six-month program includes financial support, technical training, workshops, and mentoring to help participants implement their AI projects, which range from translation services for refugees to optimizing social benefit applications.
For the first time since the launch of the “Chatbot Arena”, it is not OpenAI’s GPT-4 at the top, but Claude 3 Opus. In the Chatbot Arena, users rate the responses of anonymized AI models. It is therefore considered a realistic benchmark that cannot be manipulated.
OpenAI presents the first examples of selected filmmakers, artists and agencies who have created videos with the new Sora AI model. This is meant to show the potential of the technology, but continues to face criticism regarding the training data: It appears to have been used without the creators’ permission or payment.
ChatGPT can now be tried for free and without registration in some regions.