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Clarkesworld has always been a great place to submit your short fiction because they respond fast and pay well. There’s not a lot of waiting to learn if you’ve been accepted or not. Unfortunately, the Hugo-winning magazine has been forced to temporarily stop accepting submissions because it was getting hit with too many AI-generated submissions. Submissions will reopen eventually, but editor Neil Clarke says the current tools for spotting AI-generated submissions aren’t “reliable enough.”
Chatbots like Bing are software — not sentient.
AI is based on low-paid labor. This interview with one of the people who help decide what Google will show you is worth a read — for starters, he says he makes $3 less per hour than his daughter, who works in fast food.
If you’ve been playing around with ChatGPT or Bing’s AI chatbot you’ll know exactly what this guy is talking about. Also, “spicy autocomplete” is very good — apologies if we steal that Mike.
Scientists at the University of Chicago have created Glaze, a tool that could help artists prevent their artwork from being replicated by AI art generators by invisibly mimicking a different art style.
Glaze isn’t available just yet and the team acknowledges it isn’t a perfect solution, but it could help bridge the gap while copyright protections catch up with generative AI technology.
When I saw this headline, I figured it was some offhand remark — but no, this entire remarkable essay explores chatbots through the lens of lossy image compression algorithms, and it makes an awful lot of sense. (I’m worrying about bitrot already.)
Oh, and this author also penned the short story that became the award-winning movie Arrival.
[The New Yorker]
Nilay has access to Bing’s new AI powered search, so we took some of your prompts from Twitter on today’s show. The crew discuss whether this version of search will reshape the way we use the web, and whether or not this can beat Google.
Also on this episode: Disney layoffs, OnePlus announcements, and Elon’s Twitter reach is dropping.
The studio won a $100 gift voucher given to first-place entries of Australian retailer DigiDirect’s weekly photo contest (seen via PetaPixel), and admitted the image was Ai-generated after the fact. No word on what it’ll spend the voucher on. Perhaps a camera?
More than 1 million people have signed up for the waitlist in 48 hours, according to Microsoft’s Yusuf Mehdi. It’s currently the #3 app in the App Store in the US, which makes sense; Microsoft says installing the Bing mobile app will move you up the waitlist.
I just got access to the new Bing and have been messing around with it. It told me a joke about pans that I still don’t get. You can read (and watch!) my colleague Tom Warren’s hands-on here.