This AI guitar pedal let me roll my own effects
…But to its credit, Polyend seems to be making a good-faith effort to use AI as ethically as possible. In addition to building code solely from effects it developed in-house…
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You’re about to feel the AI money squeeze
…David DeSanto, CEO of software company Anaconda, recently returned from a five-week trip around the world speaking to customers. He said that many were moving to self-host AI models — …
The only way to fight deepfakes is by making deepfakes
…Reality Defender is effectively training AI to combat AI. The company uses an “inference-based model” to detect deepfakes, CTO Alex Lisle told me. “Our foundational model uses something called a student…
The AI fight brewing inside The New York Times
…DX was originally announced internally as a way to improve the developer experience, says Ben Harnett, a software engineer at the Times and chair of the unit’s generative AI committee. The…
Christian content creators are outsourcing AI slop to gig workers on Fiverr
In the beginning, platforms like Fiverr were places where people could hire freelancers to do specialized creative labor using skills that took years to develop. In the age of generative AI, though…
The attacks on Sam Altman are a warning for the AI world
…Protesters have targeted AI companies directly with tactics like hunger strikes. Groups that advocate against accelerated AI development explicitly denounced violence following the attacks on Altman’s home. Further investigation will take…
Larry Ellison’s betting everything on OpenAI. Will it pay off or pop the bubble?
…Like the telecoms from the ’90s internet boom, it (and its bellwether status) fades in significance as the AI-native companies that survive an AI bubble bursting eventually emerge from the wreckage…
America’s dangerous, messy deepfakes crackdown is here
…by removing it, helping develop tools to catch it, and suing AI “nudify” app developers that break its rules. Southworth added that the company’s tools are trained not to comply with…
I’m relieved Siri AI isn’t trying to be a health coach
…Vaccine discoveries, for example, have benefited in recent years from AI streamlining several steps of the development process. What we haven’t nailed is how generative AI improves the consumer health and…
This AI startup says it can tell if a script will make a hit film
…While first establishing their company, Horsman and Wood solicited feedback from a number of other creatives who often voiced concerns about gen AI’s potential to negatively impact jobs and leave human…