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Custom AI chatbots are quietly becoming the next big thing in fandom

AI chat systems put a new, sometimes solipsistic twist on the fannish roleplaying tradition.

Allegra Rosenberg
James Vincent
James Vincent
Grammarly adds to its editing skills with AI suggestions.

Grammarly is best known for checking your grammar and spelling, but will soon generate new text suggestions based on what you’re writing. It’s called GrammarlyGo and it’s out in April.

Alongside similar features from Microsoft, Google, Notion, and others, soon you won’t be able to write a single word without a half-dozen AIs trying to edit you. Best to leave them to it.

Mitchell Clark
Mitchell Clark
Microsoft is letting Bing chat for longer.

The company is continuing to loosen the restrictions on how long Bing can hold a conversation, which it put in place to keep the chatbot from going off the rails. Now you can do 10 chats per session and up to 120 per day, where before you were limited to six chat turns per session and 100 per day.

Google I/O 2023 will be on May 10thGoogle I/O 2023 will be on May 10th
Mitchell Clark
Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Apple isn’t placing new restrictions on AI features in apps, at least not yet.

On Thursday, the developer of BlueMail — who has squared off with Apple over its App Store policies before — said the company held up an update adding ChatGPT-powered email generation and other features.

A reviewer said his app needed to add content moderation or else restrict access to ages 17 and up, but then later, the same update was approved, unchanged. The App Store doesn’t have policies about AI specifically, so we can only wait and see if it tightens restrictions further,

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Bing AI patch notes.

If you’re trying to keep pace with what’s happening in generative AI, look no further than Microsoft’s Bing Blog, which has posted details of what’s new in the preview release of its ChatBot and promises regular updates to summarize what they’re learning.

That includes the Chat Tones to tune its personality, Turn Counters, and other changes this time around, but my main question is, do they use Bing AI to write up the summaries?

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Are you exaggerating what your AI product can do?

The FTC is casually warning companies to not do that in their advertisements, despite all of the current hype around AI bots and generative technology of all types.

Does the product actually use AI at all?

If you think you can get away with baseless claims that your product is AI-enabled, think again. In an investigation, FTC technologists and others can look under the hood and analyze other materials to see if what’s inside matches up with your claims. Before labeling your product as AI-powered, note also that merely using an AI tool in the development process is not the same as a product having AI in it.

Keep your AI claims in check

[Federal Trade Commission]

Would you let ChatGPT control your smart home?Would you let ChatGPT control your smart home?
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has some thoughts about the future of artificial general intelligence.

AGI, or artificial intelligence that’s as smart as a human, isn’t here yet — see, uh, everything Bing has done lately. But if it ever does arrive, Altman is (unsurprisingly) quite excited for it, and in his latest OpenAI blog, he talks about how the company is thinking about it.