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Snapchat adds watermark to Snap AI images

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

Meta announces more labels for AI generated content

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’s new chips supposed to deliver better AI performance

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.

Open letter by musicians demands responsible AI

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 use AI tools for fake ads

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

Grant program for developing generative AI technologies

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.

Claude takes crown from ChatGPT in Chatbot Arena

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 shows examples of videos created with Sora

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.

Founder and CEO of Stability AI resigns

Emad Mostaque, founder and CEO of Stability AI, has stepped down to become an advocate for decentralized AI. Mostaque founded the company in 2020 and was instrumental in developing the popular open-source image generation model Stable Diffusion, which has seen hundreds of millions of downloads since its release in August 2022. However, during his tenure, … Read more