Robots do it all

From hit songs to pizza orders

Late Checkout
April 20, 2023

As AI gains mainstream attention, robot masters win. To keep society in check, it’s important to be familiar with the state of AI, especially with the influx of AI-generated content.

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News: AI Drake song + data isn’t free
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Community shoutout: AI orders pizza + auto-generated education videos
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"AI is not the future, it's the present. It's not a trend, it's a necessity. We need to embrace it and learn how to work with it."

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NEWS

1. Blurring lines between real and fake: AI-generated content strikes twice this week

AI-generated content makes the headlines twice this week. The song “Heart On My Sleeve” that uses Drake and The Weeknd’s voices amassed 197,000 on YouTube in 2 days and 253,900 listens on Spotify before it was taken down.

Variety writes that, “Gullible fans may have a hard time telling the difference,” between AI-generated and human-generated content.

Certainly that was the case at the Sony World Photography Awards, as an AI-generated image titled "Pseudomnesia: The Electrician” won a category at the awards.

Boris Eldagsen, the image creator, refused to accept the award, stating “AI is not photography,” and that “images and photography should not compete.”

He raises an interesting point about the categorization of content in the age of AI. Variety writes, “the line between real and fake is blurring,” and CNN says, “AI is not a substitute for real creativity.”

Obviously, at this point, it is impossible to halt AI-generated content. Tagging content as “human” or “robot” is hardly on the horizon.

As robot masters, we know the pervasiveness of AI because we’re addicted to knowing about it. Part of needing a robot is needing to know what the robots can do.

What’s crazy? AI-generated content doesn’t always claim to be human-generated, but legacy institutions don’t understand AI. Universal Music Group, for example, wants it banned. As you know and other experts know, it’s not that easy.

📬Take this as a sign to invite the people in your life, who think that ChatGPT is a phone app called ChatGBD, to the YPNaR newsletter.

They probably won’t produce a film using Synesthesia anytime soon, but at the very least they’ll know the next time the Pope wears an outfit that doesn’t exist.

2. You probably need an API: It won’t be free, so open your wallet

Reddit will require AI companies to pay for commercial use of its API. OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google’s Bard, and Microsoft’s Bing AI use Reddit data to train large language models.

“The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable,” Reddit CEO Steve Huffman states in an interview with The New York Times. “We don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.”

🤝The new terms will require an agreement that will tier its customer base to support a diversity of companies. The changes follow a broader lockdown of Twitter’s API under Elon Musk’s ownership. The new terms will go into effect after a 60-day notice period.

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Apr 17, 2023