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Emilia David

Emilia David

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    Anthropic will help users if they get sued for copyright infringement.

    The company updated its commercial terms of service for those who use Claude, its AI chatbot, saying it will not only defend customers from copyright infringement claims but also pay for settlements. The new terms go into effect on January 1st, 2024 and follow similar commitments from Microsoft, Google, and other companies.

    These copyright protections won’t apply if a customer “knows or reasonably should know” they’re infringing copyright. This is consistent with what Anthropic previously said in a comment to the US Copyright Office, where it said it didn’t believe “users should be able to create outputs using Claude that infringe copyrighted works.”

    Emilia David
    Emilia David
    OpenAI split its trust and safety team, creating three separate groups taking on AI risk.

    The Information reported that OpenAI has abandoned finding a replacement for trust and safety head Dave Willner, who stepped down in July. Instead, it’s replacing the division with teams dubbed Safety Systems, Superalignment, and Preparedness teams.

    The company said in a blog post that Safety Systems will focus on the safe deployment of advanced AI models and artificial general intelligence while Superalignment works to align human and AI intelligence that surpasses humans, and Preparedness will do safety assessments for foundation models.

    Emilia David
    Emilia David
    People think ChatGPT is getting lazier.

    Even large language model-powered chatbots get tired, it seems. Several users said that ChatGPT often refuses to execute tasks that involve a lot of data and took to OpenAI’s community forums and Threads to complain.

    OpenAI acknowledged the issue on December 7, saying it hadn’t updated GPT-4 since November 11th. However, users said ChatGPT continues to reject certain jobs, even on paid accounts.

    The Verge reached out to OpenAI for more information.

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    Emilia David
    Google is reportedly working on a project that lets AI models tell someone’s “life story.”

    Project Ellmann, named after biographer and literary critic Richard David Ellmann, will take users’ search results and photos to make a chatbot able to answer “previously impossible questions.”

    CNBC saw documents presenting Ellmann and said the goal is to present a “bird’s-eye” approach to a person’s life. Ellmann allegedly categorizes moments into chapters: for example, the “college” chapter or the “becomes a parent” chapter. People could use Ellmann to ask questions like “did I have a pet,” or “when did my sibling last visit.”
    Google tells The Verge that Ellmann was an early internal experiment. “Google Photos has always used AI to help people search their photos and videos,” the company said. It added if they decide to roll out features like Ellmann they would “take the time needed to ensure they were helpful and designed to protect users’ privacy.”

    Personally, this type of hyperpersonalization is lost on me because I have a good enough memory of my life that I wish I could forget certain moments.