The tools include a background generator for product images, an image expander to help make images for varying aspect ratios, and a way to generate variations on copy. Meta initially launched the tools in its AI Sandbox earlier this year.
Bing Chat and Bing Image Creator users got access to OpenAI’s new DALL-E 3 model this week, and the initial results for people playing around with the AI image generator have been...interesting. DALL-E 3 promises “significantly more nuance and detail” compared to DALL-E 2, and certainly took some liberties with Clippy’s design in generating this nightmare fuel.
The media mogul is working on a syndicate of big publishers including the NYT that will pressure AI companies into huge payments for training data one way or another.
Payments on the scale the publishers expect would mark a dramatic change for companies like Google, which have built high-margin business in large part because they — unlike media companies from Netflix to Comcast — don’t pay for content.
Unless the publishers lower their expectations, or the tech companies adjust their fundamental sense of what it is to be a platform, this high stakes conflict is likely to escalate.
I will remind you that anyone who confidently predicts how a fair use AI copyright case will play out is getting paid by one side or another — fair use cases, even on largely similar facts, are a coin flip every time, and they’re getting weirder not simpler.
Microsoft’s Kevin Scott sat down with us at Code to talk about Bing’s competition with Google, the race to acquire and develop high-end GPUs, and how art can survive in the age of AI.
A new “help me script” feature for Google Home’s script editor could make setting up a smart home routine as easy as describing what you want to do.
Google says you’ll be able to type a phrase like “Turn on the lights and raise the blinds at 6 AM” into the service, and “help me script” will code it for you to input straight into Google Home for web.
The feature is coming to Google Home Public Preview this year and should make the many powers of the script editor more approachable to those without coding skills, which really shouldn’t be a requirement for running a smart home in the first place.
Two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks has warned his Instagram followers about an ad that’s using his AI-generated likeness to promote “some dental plan” without his consent. Hanks joins a growing list of actors who’ve seen AI generated versions of themselves let loose on the internet, and actors union SAG-AFTRA are seeking protections against the technology as part of their ongoing strike.
