Welcome to our weekly roundup of 100% human AI news.
This week, an unfiltered Grok generated controversial images.
You could have to prove you’re human to make use of the web.
And Google’s recent phone does cool stuff we’re undecided it should.
Let’s dig in.
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When Grok 2 launched, its image generation capabilities stole the show for controversial reasons. Its apparent lack of filter quickly saw the web awash with images that other models refuse to create.
Elon Musk’s ‘unwoke’ AI project has been heavily criticized. But how dangerous is it really? Is objective, unfiltered AI desirable and even achievable?
The potential for AI to spread disinformation was well illustrated this week. Donald Trump posted AI fakes to assert that Taylor Swift and her fans supported his bid to turn out to be the following US president.
Are Swifties leaning right? Does Trump imagine the pictures are real? Was he only kidding? With AI, ‘reality’ is whatever you would like it to be now.
Here’s what happens if you take Grok images and throw them into Kling.
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Are you human? Prove it.
The days of check boxes and CAPTCHAs separating humans from bots are long gone. AI-generated images, video, and audio are getting so good that it’s almost unattainable for online services to inform if a user is human or AI.
A team of researchers, which incorporates OpenAI, says you may need ‘personhood credentials’ to prove you’re not AI if you should use the web in the long run.
Should I would like some agency’s affirmation to substantiate I’m human? How long before Sam Altman suggests that his eye-scanning orb is the very best strategy to do that?
Cooperation or capitulation?
OpenAI is attempting to stay on the straight and narrow while its lawsuit with the New York Times continues. This week it struck an information cope with Condé Nast, publisher of Vogue, The New Yorker, and Wired.
Comments from each side of the partnership offer interesting insights into where news content is heading in an AI world. Publishers who survived the death of print media face choppy waters ahead.
The ‘You stole our data!’ saga continued unabated this week, as a bunch of authors filed a category motion lawsuit against Anthropic. The authors claim that Anthropic used pirated books to coach Claude.
The story behind the dodgy dataset is interesting and Anthropic is unlikely to be the one company that used it. The defense for creating the dataset with copyrighted books boils right down to: ‘We really needed it.’
Smartphone reimagined
Google’s recent Pixel 9 smartphone is smarter than ever. It’s full of AI-powered features that deliver capabilities we’ve never had in our phones before. But is that an excellent thing?
The AI-enhanced camera system and Reimagine feature redefine the concept of using your phone to ‘capture the moment’.
These recent features are impressive, but should we be embedding AI in all the things after we’re undecided find out how to make it behave?
If the concept of a phone full of AI makes you somewhat nervous, you may not be lining up to purchase one in every of Unitree’s mass production robots.
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AI Autism detector
Autism may be difficult to diagnose in children, especially once they’re very young. However, early diagnosis can ensure a baby receives timely interventions to enhance their development and long-term outcomes.
Researchers in Sweden developed a machine learning model that uses basic medical and background information to detect Autism with impressive accuracy.
In other news…
Here are another clickworthy AI stories we enjoyed this week:
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And that’s a wrap.
The unhinged nature of Grok 2 added some entertainment to our AI news week but I’m guessing corporations like Disney are firing up their lawsuit machines. Do you’re thinking that Grok needs taming, or should we have the ability to make whatever images we wish?
I do know we’re all bored with the bots, but should we be entertaining the concept of an agency giving us a ‘you’re human’ stamp of approval so we are able to use the web? What happens when the ‘AI has rights too’ movement inevitably starts up?
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