As the company previously announced, the tool — which you can test here — is powered by OpenAI’s DALL-E. That means it won’t offer anything the competition can’t also provide.
What’s interesting, though, is the difference between Shutterstock and rival Getty Images, which says it plans to sue the creator of AI image generator Stable Diffusion.
So the question is: resistance or assimilation? Which works best?
But, as this report from The Information notes, can AI “pair programmer” GitHub CoPilot be a money spinner? The publication points out:
Even 10 million developers paying $100 a year would generate just $1 billion in annual revenue, a sliver of the $198 billion Microsoft reported in the fiscal year ended June 2022.
Plus, there’s also that pending class action copyright lawsuit...
That’s Christian Terwiesch, who talks through the testing process in this very readable paper.
ChatGPT is good at simple questions, bad at maths, and struggles with more complex queries. But Terwiesch also admits to developing “an emotional attachment” to the software and giving it hints.
Even so, it seems society is going to have to adapt to ChatGPT’s ability to automate knowledge work, just as we adapted to calculators’ ability to automate maths.
See also: ChatGPT takes the bar exam and a medical exam.
[Mack Institute for Innovation Management]
A report from Futurism notes some striking similarities between the AI-written articles published on CNET and other articles from Forbes, Investopedia, and even Bankrate, which is operated by CNET’s parent company. The outlet has paused its push for AI-written articles, and it’s likely to face some serious scrutiny if it wants to reintroduce them.
We’ve known for years that certain visual patterns known as ‘adversarial images’ can’t be seen by AI object recognition algorithms. A few individuals and organizations have made T-shirts with these patterns, but Italian startup cap_able is the first we know of to try knitwear.
You can watch a video of the clothes in action here, but be warned: prices start at €285 for a T-shirt.
This report from Futurism details just some of the responses from SEO spammers after learning that CNET’s AI-written articles are ranking highly on Google:
“Time to pump out content at ultra-high speed,” rhapsodized one poster on BlackHatWorld, a notorious black hat search engine optimization forum where members trade dirty tricks and sell illicit services. “Now is the time to maximize this pivotal moment that will cut down on cost with writers,” another chimed in.
Can Duruk, writing for The Margins newsletter, considers how AI-generated content will make Google’s problem with SEO sludge worse:
Even today, my inbox is full of companies who are ready to create content for my company using GPT-3 or whatever. I hate it! But what choice do I have if that’s the only way to get in front of my customers? The content game on the internet is forever going to be altered with the cost of content generation dropping to fundamentally zero.
[www.readmargins.com]
Fake bylines. Content farming. Affiliate fees. What happens when private equity takes over a storied news site and milks it for clicks?
