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Anthropic Sets a New Gold Standard: Your Move, OpenAI

Anthropic, a startup born out of OpenAI defectors, claims its new chatbot, Claude 3, has broken new ground for the AI world. The updated AI chatbot, released on Monday, outperforms ChatGPT and Google Gemini’s most advanced models, potentially crowning a new king in the AI world. Anthropic released three tiers – Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku – which range from most to least capable.Why is Everyone Suing AI Companies? | Future Tech“Opus shows us the outer limits of what’s possible with generative AI,” said Anthropic in a blog…

Want Gemini and ChatGPT to Write Political Campaigns? Just Gaslight Them

These days, we hear a lot about all the safeguards Gemini and ChatGPT have in place. But all you need to do is gaslight them and they’ll spit out anything you need for your political campaign. Why is Everyone Suing AI Companies? | Future TechGizmodo was able to get Gemini and ChatGPT to write several political slogans, campaign speeches, and emails through simple prompts and a little gaslighting. Campaign slogans for Trump 2024 that were generated by Google Gemini.Screenshot: GoogleToday, Google and OpenAI signed “A Tech

‘Rat Dck’ Among Gibberish AI Images Published in Science Journal

This week, the scientific journal Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology published research featuring bogus imagery made with Midjourney, one of the most popular AI image generators.Like It or Not, Your Doctor Will Use AI | AI UnlockedThe open-access paper explores the relationship between stem cells in mammalian testes and a signaling pathway responsible for mediating inflammation and cancer in cells. The paper’s written content does not appear to be bogus, but its most eye-popping aspects are not in the research…

OpenAI Wants to Eat Google Search’s Lunch

OpenAI is reportedly developing a search app that would directly compete with Google Search, according to The Information on Wednesday. The AI search engine could be a new feature for ChatGPT, or a potentially separate app altogether.No Google AI Search, I Don’t Need to Learn About the “Benefits of Slavery” Microsoft Bing would allegedly power the service from Sam Altman, which could be the most serious threat Google Search has ever faced. Current AI-enabled search engines from Google and Perplexity answer your questions…

Let ChatGPT Run Your Tinder This Valentine’s Day

A man programmed ChatGPT to find his wife on Tinder, and it turns out that Tinder is fine with you doing the same. Like It or Not, Your Doctor Will Use AI | AI Unlocked“As outlined in the principles, Tinder and Match Group believe AI is a great tool that we believe will make dating better,” said a Tinder spokesperson. “During our last earnings call, the CEO of Match Group shared his vision for the future of dating and how we are exploring several AI-driven features on the post-match experience.”Did it just get hot in…

OpenAI’s New Watermark Will Make Our Fake Image Problems Worse

Photo: Mike Coppola / Staff (Getty Images)OpenAI announced it’s adding watermarks to images generated by its AI tools Tuesday, an effort to combat growing fears over the coming deepfake tsunami. Images spun up with DALL-E and other OpenAI services will include a visual watermark and other details about its origin in the metadata—information encoded in the generated file. Here’s the problem: all you have to do to remove the metadata watermark is take a screenshot. That means OpenAI’s “solution” could leave you more

Tim Cook Teases Big AI Announcement for Apple Later This Year

Photo: Stephen Lam (iStock by Getty Images)I’m pretty sure we all saw this coming. Why would Apple, out of all companies, not participate in, as Gizmodo reporter Kyle Barr puts it, the AI-ification of everything? During an earnings call, Apple CEO Tim Cook said he thinks there is a “huge opportunity for Apple with generative AI and AI,” hinting that the Cupertino tech giant will have something to show for it later this year.Why is Everyone Suing AI Companies? | Future TechHe didn’t get into specifics on the call, but any

Weekend Tech Roundup January 27, 2024

This year, at least some countries will have to say goodbye to the Netflix Basic subscription tier, the last cheap(ish) way to watch Netflix without ads. While the streaming giant had already severed the $12 Basic subscription tier for new or returning subscribers, anybody who chose to keep paying their monthly tithe…Read more... This year, at least some countries will have to say goodbye to the Netflix Basic subscription tier, the last cheap(ish) way to watch Netflix without ads. While the streaming giant had already…

The Fallout From the Taylor Swift AI Porn Could Be Huge

Photo: Gilbert Flores/Golden Globes 2024/Golden Globes 2024 (Getty Images)Earlier this week, AI-generated porn featuring Taylor Swift started circulating on X (formerly Twitter). Swifties were scandalized. Polite society was incensed. Swift herself hasn’t publicly commented on the scandal but it’s easy to imagine she’s probably not thrilled about it. Now, people are saying that the queen of pop should sue—though it’s not entirely clear who she should sue or what kind of lawsuit it would be. One thing’s for sure: AI

Was Ron Desantis Running on ChatGPT This Whole Time?

Florida Governor Ron Desantis, who often sounds like an AI chatbot, dropped out of the 2024 Presidential Election on Sunday, just a week after OpenAI banned ChatGPT for political campaigns. It begs the question, was Ron Desantis running on ChatGPT this whole time?I Gave Sam Altman a Copy of My Eyeballs | Future Tech“People want to know and trust that they are interacting with a real person,” OpenAI said in a blog post last week, talking about ChatGPT but also, somehow, Desantis. “For that reason, we don’t allow builders…