AI Reading for Friday May 31
Like beauty, LLM understanding may be skin deep, but that may be deep enough.
Google scales back AI in search, with fewer AI responses, filtering out content from Reddit and The Onion. - Business Insider
Sam Altman has talked about turning OpenAI into a regular, for-profit company. - Business Insider
OpenAI removes influence operations tied to Russia, China and Israel that used it for gen-AI propaganda. - Washington Post
Paul Graham posted on X, said YC didn't fire Sam Altman, but they told him he could either run OpenAI or YC but not both, and he chose OpenAI. - X (formerly Twitter)
DOJ antitrust chief says AI companies must fairly compensate artists. - NBC News
Zuck: Meta is developing open source AGI. - VentureBeat
Meta trains models on your posts and images. Good luck opting out. - Mashable
Salesforce disappoints, stock craters. A huge question is whether AI is disruptive or sustaining to SaaS companies like Salesforce, Adobe. - The Register
Dell sort of beats, but shares sort of fall. - Barrons
US slows chip exports to Middle East, possibly because they will end up in China. - Bloomberg
Feds host AI competition forum, snub Big Tech. - Bloomberg
Beijing gets robotaxis. - CNBC
1-bit LLMs might help with AI's energy demands. - IEEE Spectrum
US slows plans to retire coal-fired plants as power demand from AI surges - FT
AI drones might find lost hikers faster. - MIT Technology Review
Using ChatGPT to help you refresh your wardrobe. - CNET
Maybe try AI with Reddit’s Male Fashion Advice.
Might want to make it opt-in, or let users click if they want an AI summary.
Lessons learned using LLMs in production. - O’Reilly Media
Some AIs block generating content about real people or politicians, but voice and video cloning services appear to have minimal or no guardrails. - Center for Countering Digital Hate | CCDH
In any event, open source tools are available and hard to police. - HackerNoon
Kind of need a service where people can digitally sign content and say, it's real, and when they lie they get marked as frauds and lose the trustmark on all their content forever.
Could you use another thumb? - YouTube
App lets users create their own animated series. - The Hollywood Reporter
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