Category: Artificial Intelligence

HarperCollins Confirms It Has a Deal to Bleed Authors to allow their Work to be used as training for AI Company

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HarperCollins, one of the biggest publishers in the world, made a deal with an “artificial intelligence technology company” and is giving authors the option to opt in to the agreement or pass, 404 Media can confirm. […] On Friday, author Daniel Kibblesmith, who wrote the children’s book Santa’s Husband and published it with HarperCollins, posted Read more about HarperCollins Confirms It Has a Deal to Bleed Authors to allow their Work to be used as training for AI Company[…]

USAF Flight Test Boss on use of AI at Edwards

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[…] “Right now we’re at a point as generation AI is coming along and it’s a really exciting time. We’re experimenting with ways to use new tools across the entire test process, from test planning to test execution, from test analysis to test reporting. With investments from the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office [CDAO] Read more about USAF Flight Test Boss on use of AI at Edwards[…]

Judge: Just Because AI Trains On Your Publication, Doesn’t Mean It Infringes On Your Copyright. Another case thrown out.

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I get that a lot of people don’t like the big AI companies and how they scrape the web. But these copyright lawsuits being filed against them are absolute garbage. And you want that to be the case, because if it goes the other way, it will do real damage to the open web by Read more about Judge: Just Because AI Trains On Your Publication, Doesn’t Mean It Infringes On Your Copyright. Another case thrown out.[…]

The Prompt Report: A Systematic Survey of AI Prompting Techniques

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Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) systems are being increasingly deployed across all parts of industry and research settings. Developers and end users interact with these systems through the use of prompting or prompt engineering. While prompting is a widespread and highly researched concept, there exists conflicting terminology and a poor ontological understanding of what constitutes a Read more about The Prompt Report: A Systematic Survey of AI Prompting Techniques[…]

How to trick ChatGPT into writing exploit code using hex

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OpenAI’s language model GPT-4o can be tricked into writing exploit code by encoding the malicious instructions in hexadecimal, which allows an attacker to jump the model’s built-in security guardrails and abuse the AI for evil purposes, according to 0Din researcher Marco Figueroa. […] In a recent blog, Figueroa detailed how one such guardrail jailbreak exposed Read more about How to trick ChatGPT into writing exploit code using hex[…]

Juicy Licensing Deals With AI Companies Show That Publishers Don’t Actually Care About Creators

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One of the many interesting aspects of the current enthusiasm for generative AI is the way that it has electrified the formerly rather sleepy world of copyright. Where before publishers thought they had successfully locked down more or less everything digital with copyright, they now find themselves confronted with deep-pocketed companies – both established ones like Google Read more about Juicy Licensing Deals With AI Companies Show That Publishers Don’t Actually Care About Creators[…]

Adobe’s Procreate-like Digital Painting App Is Now Free for Everyone – and offers AI options

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Adobe tools like Photoshop and Illustrator are household names for creative professionals on Mac and PC (though Affinity is trying hard to steal those paying customers). But now, Adobe is gunning for the tablet drawing and painting market by making its Fresco digital painting app completely free. While Photoshop and Illustrator are on iPad, Procreate Read more about Adobe’s Procreate-like Digital Painting App Is Now Free for Everyone – and offers AI options[…]

German court: LAION’s generative AI training dataset is legal thanks to EU copyright exceptions

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The copyright world is currently trying to assert its control over the new world of generative AI through a number of lawsuits, several of which have been discussed previously on Walled Culture. We now have our first decision in this area, from the regional court in Hamburg. Andres Guadamuz has provided an excellent detailed analysis Read more about German court: LAION’s generative AI training dataset is legal thanks to EU copyright exceptions[…]

Penguin Random House is adding an AI warning to its books’ copyright pages fwiw

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Penguin Random House, the trade publisher, is adding language to the copyright pages of its books to prohibit the use of those books to train AI. The Bookseller reports that new books and reprints of older titles from the publisher will now include the statement, “No part of this book may be used or reproduced Read more about Penguin Random House is adding an AI warning to its books’ copyright pages fwiw[…]

AI-Powered Social Media Manipulation App Impact facilitates zealots flooding posts with AI texts to look real

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Impact, an app that describes itself as “AI-powered infrastructure for shaping and managing narratives in the modern world,” is testing a way to organize and activate supporters on social media in order to promote certain political messages. The app aims to summon groups of supporters who will flood social media with AI-written talking points designed Read more about AI-Powered Social Media Manipulation App Impact facilitates zealots flooding posts with AI texts to look real[…]

OpenAI’s GPT Store Has Left Some Developers in the Lurch

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[…] when OpenAI CEO Sam Altman spoke at the dev day, he touched on potential earning opportunities for developers. “Revenue sharing is important to us,” Altman said.” We’re going to pay people who build the most useful and the most-used GPTs a portion of our revenue.” […] Books GPT, which churns out personalized book recommendations Read more about OpenAI’s GPT Store Has Left Some Developers in the Lurch[…]

Google’s AI enshittifies search summaries with ads

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Google is rolling out ads in AI Overviews, which means you’ll now start seeing products in some of the search engine’s AI-generated summaries. Let’s say you’re searching for ways to get a grass stain out of your pants. If you ask Google, its AI-generated response will offer some tips, along with suggestions for products to Read more about Google’s AI enshittifies search summaries with ads[…]

Juicy licensing deals with AI companies show that publishers don’t really care about creators

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One of the many interesting aspects of the current enthusiasm for generative AI is the way that it has electrified the formerly rather sleepy world of copyright. Where before publishers thought they had successfully locked down more or less everything digital with copyright, they now find themselves confronted with deep-pocketed companies – both established ones Read more about Juicy licensing deals with AI companies show that publishers don’t really care about creators[…]

EU, UK, US and more sign world’s first International treaty on AI – but the US makes sure it’s pretty much useless

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The EU, UK, US, and Israel signed the world’s first treaty protection human rights in AI technology in a ceremony in Vilnius, Lithuania, on Thursday (5 September), but civil society groups say the text has been watered down. The Framework Convention on artificial intelligence and human rights, democracy, and the rule of law was adopted Read more about EU, UK, US and more sign world’s first International treaty on AI – but the US makes sure it’s pretty much useless[…]

PLAUD NotePin: A Wearable AI Memory Capsule that just might work

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So this is a pin a bit larger than an AA battery which does one thing: it transcribes your musings and makes notes. Where does the AI come in? Speech and speaker recognition, audio trimming, summarisation and mind-maps. You see a lot of doubtful reviews on this thing out there, mostly on the basis of Read more about PLAUD NotePin: A Wearable AI Memory Capsule that just might work[…]

Google will let you search your Chrome browsing history by asking questions like a human – Firefox, you need this!

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[…] you’ll be able to ask questions of your browsing history in natural language using Gemini, Google’s family of large language models that power its AI systems. You can type a question like “What was that ice cream shop I looked at last week?” into your address bar after accessing your history and Chrome will Read more about Google will let you search your Chrome browsing history by asking questions like a human – Firefox, you need this![…]

Europe launches ‘AI Factories’ initiative

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[…] According to the Commission, AI Factories are envisioned as “dynamic ecosystems” that bring together all the necessary ingredients – compute power, data, and talent – to create cutting-edge generative AI models, so it isn’t just about making a supercomputer available and telling people to get on with it. The ultimate goal for these AI Read more about Europe launches ‘AI Factories’ initiative[…]

EU Commission opens stakeholder participation in drafting general-purpose AI code of practice

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The European Commission has issued a call to stakeholders to participate in drafting a code of practice for general-purpose artificial intelligence (GPAI), a key part of compliance with the AI Act for deployers of technology like ChatGPT, according to a press release on Tuesday (30 July). […] a diversity of stakeholders will be engaged in Read more about EU Commission opens stakeholder participation in drafting general-purpose AI code of practice[…]

Suno & Udio To RIAA: Your Music Is Copyrighted, You Can’t Copyright Styles

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AI music generators Suno and Udio responded to the lawsuits filed by the major recording labels, arguing that their platforms are tools for making new, original music that “didn’t and often couldn’t previously exist.” “Those genres and styles — the recognizable sounds of opera, or jazz, or rap music — are not something that anyone Read more about Suno & Udio To RIAA: Your Music Is Copyrighted, You Can’t Copyright Styles[…]

Meta and Apple are Keeping their Next Big AI things Out of the EU – that’s a good thing

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[…] In a statement to The Verge, Meta spokesperson Kate McLaughlin said that the company’s next-gen Llama AI model is skipping Europe, placing the blame squarely on regulations. “We will release a multimodal Llama model over the coming months,” Mclaughlin said, “but not in the EU due to the unpredictable nature of the European regulatory Read more about Meta and Apple are Keeping their Next Big AI things Out of the EU – that’s a good thing[…]

AI researchers run AI chatbots at a lightbulb-esque 13 watts with no performance loss — stripping matrix multiplication from LLMs yields massive gains

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A research paper from UC Santa Cruz and accompanying writeup discussing how AI researchers found a way to run modern, billion-parameter-scale LLMs on just 13 watts of power. That’s about the same as a 100W-equivalent LED bulb, but more importantly, its about 50 times more efficient than the 700W of power that’s needed by data Read more about AI researchers run AI chatbots at a lightbulb-esque 13 watts with no performance loss — stripping matrix multiplication from LLMs yields massive gains[…]

Bilingual Brain-Reading Implant Decodes Spanish and English

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For the first time, a brain implant has helped a bilingual person who is unable to articulate words to communicate in both of his languages. An artificial-intelligence (AI) system coupled to the brain implant decodes, in real time, what the individual is trying to say in either Spanish or English. The findings, published on 20 Read more about Bilingual Brain-Reading Implant Decodes Spanish and English[…]

ChatGPT forecasts the future better when asked to tell stories from the future

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[…] In a paper titled, “ChatGPT Can Predict the Future When It Tells Stories Set in the Future About the Past,” Pham and Cunningham give away the final scene – that AI model prognostication can be effective in certain circumstances. Asking the chatbot for tales about future events rather than asking for direct predictions proved Read more about ChatGPT forecasts the future better when asked to tell stories from the future[…]

The Crescendo Multi-Turn LLM Jailbreak Attack

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In this paper, we introduce a novel jailbreak attack called Crescendo. Unlike existing jailbreak methods, Crescendo is a multi-turn jailbreak that interacts with the model in a seemingly benign manner. It begins with a general prompt or question about the task at hand and then gradually escalates the dialogue by referencing the model’s replies, progressively Read more about The Crescendo Multi-Turn LLM Jailbreak Attack[…]

AI Is Now Dogfighting With Fighter Pilots In The Air

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Last year, the uniquely modified F-16 test jet known as the X-62A, flying in a fully autonomous mode, took part in a first-of-its-kind dogfight against a crewed F-16, the U.S. military has announced. This breakthrough test flight, during which a pilot was in the X-62A’s cockpit as a failsafe, was the culmination of a series Read more about AI Is Now Dogfighting With Fighter Pilots In The Air[…]