New from me: If you’ve seen a picture of Elmo, Mickey Mouse or Pikachu wielding a gun on X recently, chances are it was made with the Grok chatbot — but the AI software behind the pictures is from a tiny startup called Black Forest Labs. https://
bloomberg.com/news/articles/
2024-08-21/this-tiny-startup-is-helping-musk-s-grok-with-image-generation?utm_source=website&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=twitter
… via @technology
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Black Forest Labs Powers Grok’s Image Generation Capabilities
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Condé Nast OpenAI Deal Reshapes Media AI Relationship
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Condé Nast and OpenAI inked a multi-year deal that could help rewrite the media-AI relationship. The new agreement allows @OpenAI to use content from iconic platforms like Vogue, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, WIRED, and more in ChatGPT and its new SearchGPT prototype. Read more
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SentinelOne and Google Cloud Strengthen Cybersecurity Partnership
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[#Article] @SentinelOne and @GoogleCloud strengthen their partnership for more robust cybersecurity https://actuia.com/actualite/sentinelone-et-google-cloud-renforcent-leur-partenariat-pour-une-cybersecurite-plus-robuste/ … #AI #ArtificialIntelligence
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Tech Philanthropy as Market Lock-In Strategy Against Open Source
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It's not like they are giving people technology that nobody else has! Versions of this exist already, including open-source. Their motive is to look good while furthering their own lock-in over the open alternatives — at the cost of the "targets" of their philanthropy.
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Proprietary Licenses vs Open Source: AI’s Perverse Incentives
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Think about *how* they are (supposedly) helping. They are providing licenses as a lock-in to their own proprietary platform, instead of helping people permanently by promoting or releasing things as open-source. It's a perverse incentive at best, given the alternative.
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OpenAI Fine-Tuning, Claude Copyright Suit, AI Image Tools
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Top stories in AI today: -OpenAI adds free fine-tuning to GPT-4o
-Claude sued for copyright infringement
-Create AI images in real-time on WhatsApp
-Microsoft’s new AI beats larger models
-6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs Read more: http://
therundown.ai/p/openai-gpt-4
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Tech Giants Should Fund Open-Source AI Alternatives Permanently
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You have to look at their actions in context: there are open-source alternatives which they could fund and *permanently* help those who they claim to support — rather than giving some the privilege of temporary cloud compute.
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Open-Source Accessibility Technology Over Profit-Driven Corporate Solutions
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This kind of thing should be open-source only. It's always dangerous to have profit-seeking companies use disabled people for PR, e.g. to fix the reputation problem caused by the rest of their business.
— Alex J. Champandard 🌱 (@alexjc) 21 août 2024
(It's huge Red Flag for me, same as NeuralLink's DARPA-derived technology.) https://t.co/8ixe1JVa7dThis kind of thing should be open-source only. It's always dangerous to have profit-seeking companies use disabled people for PR, e.g. to fix the reputation problem caused by the rest of their business. (It's huge Red Flag for me, same as NeuralLink's DARPA-derived technology.)
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Grok-2 Pushes AI Ethics And Innovation Boundaries
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AI Gone Wild: How Grok-2 Is Pushing The Boundaries Of Ethics And Innovation Elon Musk's latest #AI model is breaking barriers and raising eyebrows. This article explores how #Grok-2 is challenging our understanding of AI #capabilities and #ethics and what it means for the
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Waymo Honking: Autonomous Vehicles as Internet Art and Culture
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Wrote about the honking Waymos, a lovely little internet art project, and why we can't stop watching the machines boop around in the night