AI Reading for Thursday August 15
Musk's Grok-2 floods the Internet with fake images of celebs. - The Verge
Deepfake Elon Musk is a con artist, totally unlike real Elon Musk. - NY Times
What a terrible day to have eyes - X (formerly Twitter)
MacBooks dominate 'AI PC' shipments
Nations pursue sovereign AI projects to avoid perceived foreign dependence and influence. - NY Times
SoftBank seems to be leaking that Intel didn't pass muster to fab their AI chips.
I didn't notice yesterday but OpenAI's 8-08 update reclaimed top spot on LMSYS
Eric Schmidt said (in April) that Google fell behind in AI because of work from home. - Business Insider
Artists’ lawsuit against Stability AI and Midjourney advances. - The Verge
Meanwhile at Kamala HQ - YouTube
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It's funny watching CEOs beat the "but WFH is baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad" drum for almost ANY setback in any industry; it's a kind of intellectual hypocritical Puritanism which crumbles even faster when you think about AI -- where huge companies are actually stealing the IP of working artists by simply setting up scraping farms for model training.