The spread of AI-generated misinformation is worrying lots of us, including Ars Technica’s AI reporter Benj Edwards. That’s why he bought the only remaining and regularly updated physical encyclopedia in existence. As Edwards explains: it’s expensive, sure, but at least it’s reliable, and won’t suffer link rot or stealth edits. Is it time to stock up on facts while we can?
Another scoop from the last issue of Command Line:
Meta has built an internal AI chatbot called Metamate that uses company data to help employees summarize meetings, write code, and debug features. Employees will be able to create their own prompts and share them with colleagues.
The company is starting to roll it out internally to a small group now. I wrote in a previous issue that Meta was talking to Microsoft and OpenAI about powering this tool, but now I’m told that it landed on using its own separate, in-house model.
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Bloomberg has done an amazing deep dive into the racial and gender biases in popular AI image generator Stable Diffusion.
Sadly, the results are exactly what you’d expect: generated images of people in higher-paying jobs are disproportionately white and male. And this pattern doesn’t just reflect social biases but amplifies it, as the graphic below shows.
Check out the full story here.
Science fiction and fantasy authors are struggling with AI-generated media — and formulating strategies to deal with it.
I am incredibly susceptible to agonizing over critiques of my creative work. Congrats to Zach Gage (designer of Spelltower and Really Bad Chess) for hitting on a pretty clever way to get the relevant criticism with a layer of distance... and still luxuriate in fully human praise.
The results, according to creator and showrunner Charlie Booker, were “shit”. The product it spit out amounted to a mashup of previous Black Mirror synopses, Booker tells Empire, though it did help him spot some of the clichés in his previous work.
South Park actually did a ChatGPT-cowritten episode in its most recent season, FWIW. It was pretty funny, but “shit” would also be an appropriate term.
Cisco’s adding generative AI tools to help identify key points in the meeting, as well as automatically produce notes and action items. It’s similar to Microsoft’s Teams recap features powered by GPT, Zoom’s IQ, and Google’s summary feature for Meet.
