And if you want to take a thoughtful, skeptical look at the AI hype, read this article by Molly White. She asks whether today’s AI tools are really worth their cost. And b cost, she doesn’t just mean the monetary cost, but also the environmental impact as well as other potential negative effects on people …
Modern AI tools such as ChatGPT have achieved their capabilities through immense amounts of training data. However, vendors like OpenAI typically do not disclose where they obtain this material. And for good reason: There is evidence they may have violated some websites’ terms of service when harvesting the content. It also raises the question of …
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 …
It seems the startup doesn’t have much time to control the individual chatbots in its store, as TechCrunch shows.
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 …
The Browser Company has introduced Arc Search, an app for iPhones and iPads that searches the web in response to a user’s search query and presents the information it finds on a page. If someone clicks on one of the listed sources, ads are automatically blocked, among other things. In his article on Engadget, Pranav …