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Archives for September 2023

Wes Davis
Wes Davis
Amazon brings ambient art with AI-generated images to Fire TV sticks and the Echo Show.

At its Devices and Services event, Amazon announced that it’s bringing ambient art to new and existing Echo Show and Fire TV devices. What’s more, it can generate or alter images for you on the fly, right on your TV using voice commands.

Previously, the ambient art feature was only available on Fire TVs.

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Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
The new Alexa LLM-powered voice assistant will work on the original Echo that launched in 2014.

That’s ... impressive.

How Google taught AI to doubt itselfHow Google taught AI to doubt itself
Casey Newton
Alex Cranz
Alex Cranz
To stop AI spam, Amazon is limiting the number of ebooks you can self-publish daily.

On September 6 Amazon said it was monitoring the use of generative AI by users of its Kindle Direct Publishing platform. Then Amazon announced an updated policy on the Kindle Direct Publishing forum Monday:

While we have not seen a spike in our publishing numbers, in order to help protect against abuse, we are lowering the volume limits we have in place on new title creations.

You can only self-publish three books a day. Amazon claims this will only affect a very small number of authors. If you are publishing that many books a day sans generative AI how is your brain not tired? That’s so much writing and I’m deeply impressed.