Grammarly is best known for checking your grammar and spelling, but will soon generate new text suggestions based on what you’re writing. It’s called GrammarlyGo and it’s out in April.
Alongside similar features from Microsoft, Google, Notion, and others, soon you won’t be able to write a single word without a half-dozen AIs trying to edit you. Best to leave them to it.
That’s according to a report from Bloomberg on the ChatGPT-inspired panic currently gripping the search giant.
We knew the company was worried, but Bloomberg compares the AI push to Google’s attempt to integrate social network Google+ with its services back in 2011. That didn’t end well, of course, but AI is easier than social, right?
[Bloomberg.com]
Using AI to generate image alt text is a fantastic use-case, making the web more accessible to those with vision problems.
TechCrunch reports that Microsoft’s new vision model, Florence, will be doing exactly that for Reddit, LinkedIn, and elsewhere — sites whose huge scale makes manual captioning a trickier prospect. You can see Florence in action here.
Here’s the danger: if there are recordings of you speaking online, it’s trivial to clone your voice using free AI web services. With this clone, scammers can call up your relatives, pretend you’re in trouble, and try to get you to transfer them money. The Washington Post has a great report on this growing trend. It’s troubling stuff, and disappointingly predictable.
[Washington Post]
