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Elissa Welle

Elissa Welle

Former Tarbell AI Fellow

Former Tarbell AI Fellow

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    What happens when an AI-generated artist gets a record deal? A copyright mess

    The only human-made element behind Xania Monet’s act appear to be the lyrics.

    Elissa Welle
    Elissa Welle
    Elissa Welle
    Google’s Gems can now be shared like any Drive file.

    Customized versions of the Gemini chatbot called Gems were announced last May, incorporated into Drive in July, and are now shareable with friends and family.

    Elissa Welle
    Elissa Welle
    Grok 4 was one of the most expensive AI models to train, by one estimate.

    It cost xAI around $490 million, according to a report by AI research institute Epoch AI, which is more than nine times the estimated cost of training Meta’s Llama 3.

    Elissa Welle
    Elissa Welle
    AI chatbots can help perfect a phishing scam, despite being trained not to.

    Six of the major AI chatbots - Grok, ChatGPT, Meta AI, Claude, DeepSeek, and Gemini - effectively guided a team of Reuters reporters through the steps of simulating a phishing scam, down to describing a good time to send a message intended to trick older adults into clicking on a fraudulent link.