Amanda Silberling
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Librarians are hosting viral ‘Avoiding AI’ workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech
At libraries around the country, “Avoiding AI” workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.
Midjourney acquired the astrology app Co-Star
The AI lab Midjourney continues to expand its purview beyond image and video generation.
Meta launched a new AI optimism ad set to a song about human extinction
David Bowie’s song “Five Years,” which Meta used in a supposedly inspiring advertisement, is about humans learning that…
Meta is testing an AI bedtime story app for people with no imagination
At last, a tech company has found a way to outsource humanity’s oldest pastime: using our imaginations.
Jack Dorsey is taking on Slack with Buzz, a group chat platform for teams and their AI agents
Buzz is a group chat platform for the workplace that puts humans and their AI agents in the…
Why is OpenAI selling a ChatGPT basketball?
You may have heard that OpenAI released its first piece of hardware this week. You may not have…
Hack suggests AI music generator Suno scraped YouTube for training data
The hacker used an employee’s credentials to access source code, which revealed how Suno scraped decades of audio.
Lorde says AI glasses are “not sexy”
“Increasingly in our world, it gets harder and harder to know what is real,” Lorde said on stage.
Google faces another AI training lawsuit from major publishers
Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier, and other publishers allege that Google trained its AI on copyrighted works without the necessary…
Reddit is using LLMs to solve a problem LLMs largely created
In the AI era, platforms have no choice but to fight fire with fire to cull spam.