• WordPress and Tumblr Plan to Sell User Content to AI Companies

    WordPress and Tumblr Plan to Sell User Content to AI Companies
    Automattic, the parent company of sites like WordPress and Tumblr, is in talks to sell content from its platforms to AI companies like MidJourney and OpenAI for training purposes, according to a new report from 404 Media Tuesday. And while the details of the deal are still sketchy, Automattic is trying to reassure…Read more...
  • Google Is Paying News Outlets to Unleash an Avalanche of AI Slop

    Google Is Paying News Outlets to Unleash an Avalanche of AI Slop
    Google swears it’s not trying to kill journalism, but many of its latest projects seem geared toward that end. Google is paying five-figure sums to small publishers asking them to test out a generative AI platform geared toward newsrooms. News outlets are asked to publish three of these AI-assisted articles a day, in…Read more...
  • OpenAI claims New York Times ‘hacked’ ChatGPT to build copyright lawsuit

    OpenAI claims New York Times ‘hacked’ ChatGPT to build copyright lawsuit
    In a filing Monday, OpenAI claims a ‘hired gun’ took ‘tens of thousands of attempts to generate the highly anomalous results’OpenAI has asked a federal judge to dismiss parts of the New York Times’ copyright lawsuit against it, arguing that the newspaper “hacked” its chatbot ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence systems to generate misleading evidence for the case.OpenAI said in a filing in Manhattan federal court on Monday that the Times caused the
  • How much is that Frosty? Wendy’s to trial Uber-like surge pricing

    How much is that Frosty? Wendy’s to trial Uber-like surge pricing
    Fast-food chain’s CEO announced the plan – which will utilize ‘AI-enabled menu changes and suggestive selling – in an earnings callThe price of a Dave’s Double could, well, double depending on the time of day after Wendy’s announced it would begin to trial surge pricing, in a development likely to be closely watched by other service and retail firms as the price of a burger becomes dependent on demand.The restaurant industry publication Nation’s Restaura
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  • With a trillion-dollar valuation, Nvidia is at the top of its game – will its reign last?

    With a trillion-dollar valuation, Nvidia is at the top of its game – will its reign last?
    The US chip maker is the company to bet on if you want to invest in AI, but with the future of artificial intelligence in flux, staying on top of the game won’t be easy• Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article hereEveryone wants to be like Apple. The largest publicly traded company in the world, with a flagship product that prints money, and a cultural footprint that has reached world-historical importance: the 21st-century Ford.On a surface lev
  • TechScape: With its trillion-dollar valuation, will Nvidia’s reign last?

    TechScape: With its trillion-dollar valuation, will Nvidia’s reign last?
    The US chip maker is the company to bet on if you want to invest in AI, but with the future of artificial intelligence in flux, staying on top of the game won’t be easy• Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article hereEveryone wants to be like Apple. The largest publicly traded company in the world, with a flagship product that prints money, and a cultural footprint that has reached world-historical importance: the 21st-century Ford.On a surface lev
  • Human or fake? How AI is distorting beauty standards – video

    Human or fake? How AI is distorting beauty standards – video
    Images created by AI are getting exponentially better, to the point where many people are unable to distinguish them from the real thing. As this technology continues to develop, challenges to our perception of what is real are immense, and our trust in what we are seeing is eroded. Fakes are already changing industries such as modelling and marketing, but can they offer a more diverse reflection of humanity than has historically been available – or are they destined to reflect the narrow
  • U.S. Is Reportedly Using AI to Decide Where to Drop Bombs

    U.S. Is Reportedly Using AI to Decide Where to Drop Bombs
    If you’ve been wondering when our military would start deploying artificial intelligence on the battlefield, the answer is that it appears to be already happening. The Pentagon has been using computer vision algorithms to help identify targets for airstrikes, according to a report from Bloomberg News. Just recently,…Read more...
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