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☆ The Beastie Boys Sue Chili’s Over Use of ‘Sabotage’
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-11 | by ( Orlando Mayorquín | More About Orlando Mayorquín | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Beastie Boys sued Chili’s Grill & Bar in federal court on Wednesday, accusing the restaurant chain’s main operator of infringing on their copyright of the 1994 hit “Sabotage” by using it in advertisements without permission. According to the complaint, Brinker International, which operates more than 1,600 Chili’s and other restaurants worldwide, rolled out promotional videos on social media beginning in November 2022 that used significant portions of the song and parodied its music video, directed by Spike Jonze. The music video playfully pays homage to 1970s television crime dramas and features a fictitious opening credit scene and the group’s members dressed in fake wigs, mustaches and sunglasses of the era. In the Chili’s video advertisement, three characters dressed in similar ’70s attire rob ingredients from a Chili’s restaurant scored to the sound of “Sabotage,” said the lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Persons: Brinker, Spike Jonze, ” Organizations: Beastie Boys, Chili’s Grill, Bar, Brinker International, Southern, of Locations: U.S, of New York

☆ I got tested for the BRCA gene mutation while I was pregnant. With my family history, I knew I wanted a double mastectomy regardless of the results.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-08 | by ( Gila Pfeffer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Named for the first two letters of "breast" and "cancer," a positive result would place my odds of developing breast cancer at 87%. For me, an adult, it was a wake-up call to get ahead of breast cancer. We also had a family history of breast cancer in common, but her mother, who'd been diagnosed in her 20s, had caught it early and survived. And most important of all, on a scale of one to infinity, how relieved did she feel now that breast cancer was no longer a threat? I asked for the BRCA test, and my doctor agreedDuring my next prenatal checkup, I asked my doctor to arrange a BRCA test.

Persons: —, I'd, Stephanie, Angelina Jolie, who'd, Bikur Cholim, she'd, Gila Pfeffer Organizations: Service, Business, Genome, The New York Times Locations: The

☆ AI resurrects deceased actors’ voices to read audiobooks
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-03 | by ( Samantha Murphy Kelly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Earlier this week, AI company ElevenLabs said it is bringing digitally produced celebrity voice-overs of deceased actors, including Garland, James Dean and Burt Reynolds, to its newly launched Reader app. “We deeply respect their legacy and are honored to have their voices as part of our platform,” said Dustin Blank, head of partnerships at ElevenLabs. The AI is trained on old recordings and those recordings are under copyright. It’s not unlike a company negotiating a copyright deal to use a popular song by Queen in an ad. It’s unclear, however, how AI versions of well-known voices will be received by mass audiences and if it will raise concerns around authenticity.

Persons: Judy Garland, Oz, you’ll, ElevenLabs, Garland, James Dean, Burt Reynolds, ”, Dustin Blank, Joe Biden, OpenAI, Scarlett Johansson’s, ” Johansson, David Gunkel, “, Queen, they’re, ” Bern Elliot, Al Michaels, Michaels, Gunkel Organizations: CNN, Hollywood, New, Northern Illinois University, Gartner, Media, NBC Locations: ElevenLabs

☆ The copyright lawsuits against OpenAI are piling up as the tech company seeks data to train its AI
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-30 | by ( Kenneth Niemeyer | Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Leading tech companies like Google, Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft are all scrambling to find new sources of data. Part of the problem is that publishers are increasingly accusing these companies of hoovering up copyrighted data. One solution is synthetic data, which is artificially generated rather than collected from the real world, and can easily be generated by machine learning algorithms. OpenAI has considered synthetic data as an option to train its models, but CEO Sam Altman has raised concerns about producing quality data. "As long as you can get over the synthetic data event horizon, where the model is smart enough to make good synthetic data, everything will be fine," Altman said at a tech conference in May 2023.

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☆ Is Big Tech wrong to train AI models on 'messy' public data? A chat with synthetic data evangelist Ali Golshan.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-30 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Instead, they're calling for companies to train their models on synthetic data. Synthetic data is artificially generated rather than collected from the real world. AdvertisementBusiness Insider chatted with Ali Golshan, CEO and cofounder of Gretel, who one might call an evangelist for synthetic data. Why is synthetic data better than raw public data? AdvertisementUltimately, the other part of it is that synthetic data is very good at privacy if you have enough data.

Persons: —, Ali Golshan, Gretel, Young, There's Organizations: Service, Companies, Meta, Google, Business, Ernst, Riot, Federal Trade Commission

☆ Zombies beware, Cillian Murphy is back for '28 Years Later.' Here's everything we know about the sequel.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-28 | by ( Eammon Jacobs | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read preview"Oppenheimer" star Cillian Murphy has reunited with director Danny Boyle for the long-awaited horror sequel "28 Years Later," two decades after his breakout role in "28 Days Later." In the original film, Murphy played Jim, a bicycle courier who wakes up from a coma to find that the UK has been hit by the "Rage" virus, which turns people into zombies. While Boyle produced the 2007 sequel, "28 Weeks Later," the Juan Carlos Fresnadillo-directed film focused more on gory action, than the suspense-driven horror of the original. Related storiesIn January 2024, The Hollywood Reporter confirmed that "28 Years Later" is in the works by Boyle and "28 Days Later" writer Alex Garland. In May, Sony Motion Pictures Group chairman Tom Rothman confirmed to Deadline that the "Oppenheimer" star will reprise his role as Jim in "28 Years Later."

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☆ OpenAI, Microsoft sued by Center for Investigative Reporting as news industry bolsters attack on AI
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

The news industry just gained a powerful ally in its effort to take on OpenAI. The Center for Investigative Reporting, the country's oldest nonprofit newsroom, sued OpenAI and lead backer Microsoft in federal court on Thursday for alleged copyright infringement, following similar suits from publications including The New York Times , Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News. In December, The New York Times filed a suit against Microsoft and OpenAI, alleging intellectual property violations related to its journalistic content appearing in ChatGPT training data. Martin and Jodi Picoult, sued OpenAI last year, alleging copyright infringement in using their work to train ChatGPT. Reddit also announced in May that it will partner with OpenAI, allowing the company to train its AI models on Reddit content.

Persons: Sam Altman, OpenAI, OpenAI's, chatbot, Defendants, Monika Bauerlein, Bauerlein, Mother Jones, ChatGPT, Microsoft didn't, Jonathan Franzen, John Grisham, George R.R, Martin, Jodi Picoult, Reddit Organizations: Softbank Ventures, Center, Investigative, Microsoft, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News, of, The New York Times, Times, Southern, The Chicago Tribune, OpenAI, Time, News Corp, Wall Street, Barron's, New York Post, Apple Locations: Softbank Ventures Asia, Seoul, South Korea, Southern, of New York, U.S

☆ OpenAI and Time strike multiyear deal to improve ChatGPT with journalistic content
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

OpenAI and Time magazine on Thursday announced a "multi-year content deal" that will allow OpenAI to access current and archived articles from more than 100 years of Time's history. OpenAI's use of Time's content will feature a citation and link back to the original source, the release said. In December, The New York Times filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, alleging intellectual property violations related to its journalistic content appearing in ChatGPT training data. Martin and Jodi Picoult, sued OpenAI alleging copyright infringement in using their work to train ChatGPT. In July, two authors filed a similar lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that their books were used to train the company's chatbot without their consent.

Persons: Reddit, OpenAI, Jonathan Franzen, John Grisham, George R.R, Martin, Jodi Picoult Organizations: Microsoft, OpenAI, News Corp, Street, The New York Post, The New York Times, Southern, of Locations: The, U.S, of New York

☆ Why Twitch's CEO says AI will be a 'boon' for livestreaming creators
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Lara O'Reilly | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read previewWith a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence and as the former head of NASA's AI and robotics unit, Twitch CEO Dan Clancy readily pitches himself as something of a generative AI expert. Twitch creators have begun using generative AI to set up debates with fictionalized versions of famous people and historical figures, he said. "You're going to be able to do that with two cameras," Clancy said of the advances in generative AI. The documentation for the program, which is due to launch in July or August of this year, doesn't make any mention of AI-generated music. Amazon is developing its own large language models and services that allow customers to build generative AI applications in the cloud.

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☆ Europe is at risk of over-restricting AI and falling behind U.S. and China, Dutch prince says
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-26 | by ( Ryan Browne | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Prince Constantijn is special envoy to Techleap, a Dutch startup accelerator. Patrick Van Katwijk | Getty ImagesAMSTERDAM — Europe is at risk of falling behind the U.S. and China on artificial intelligence as it focuses on regulating the technology, according to Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands. Prince Constantijn is the third and youngest son of former Dutch Queen Beatrix and the younger brother of reigning Dutch King Willem-Alexander. "We've seen this in the data space [with GDPR], we've seen this now in the platform space, and now with the AI space," Constantijn added. Plus, when it comes to developing applications that use AI, "Europe is definitely going to be competitive," Constantijn noted.

Persons: Prince Constantijn, Patrick Van Katwijk, Constantijn, Dutch Queen Beatrix, Dutch King Willem, Alexander, innovating, hasn't Organizations: Getty, CNBC, Union, EU, U.S, National Academies of Sciences Locations: Techleap, Dutch, AMSTERDAM, Europe, China, Netherlands, Amsterdam, U.S

☆ Music labels sue AI companies Suno, Udio for U.S. copyright infringement
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-24 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Major record labels Sony Music , Universal Music Group and Warner Records sued artificial intelligence companies Suno and Udio on Monday, accusing them of committing mass copyright infringement by using the labels' recordings to train music-generating AI systems. The companies copied music without permission to teach their systems to create music that will "directly compete with, cheapen, and ultimately drown out" human artists' work, according to federal lawsuits filed against Udio in New York and Suno in Massachusetts. Representatives for Suno and Udio did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the complaints. AI companies have argued that their systems make fair use of copyrighted material. Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Suno and New York-based Udio have raised millions in funding this year for their AI systems, which create music in response to user text prompts.

Persons: Udio, Mariah Carey's, James Brown's, Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, Mitch Glazier Organizations: Sony Music, Universal Music Group, Warner Records, Udio, Suno, Recording Industry Association of America Locations: New York, Suno, Massachusetts, Cambridge , Massachusetts

☆ AI company behind viral ‘BBL Drizzy’ fake Drake diss track gets sued
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-24 | by ( Samantha Murphy Kelly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —A group of major record labels is suing two AI startups, alleging they wrongfully used popular artists’ work to train their systems to produce copyrighted music without their consent. Udio is the company behind “BBL Drizzy,” the AI-generated song that went viral last month during the Kendrick Lamar and Drake spat. Udio was founded last year by former Google DeepMind researchers to make it “easy for anyone to create emotionally resonant music in an instant,” according to the company. The platform, which allows users to create songs with only a few prompts, relies on OpenAI’s ChatGPT for lyrics and title development. Udio and Suno did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Persons: Warner Records –, Udio, Kendrick Lamar, Drake, Suno, Mitch Glazier, ”, Billie Eilish, Kacey Musgraves, J Balvin, Jon Bon Jovi, Jonas, Katy Perry, Miranda Lambert, CNN’s Jordan Valinsky Organizations: CNN, Recording Industry Association of America, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Records, Labs, BBL, Google, RIAA, Rights Alliance

☆ I'm a therapist who's been hospitalized for a manic episode. I worried about the stigma at work — then, another patient recognized me.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-19 | by ( Marcia Naomi Berger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. A year later, in 1975, I had a second manic episode, which landed me in Langley Porter Hospital. I first met Henry when I was a patient myselfI played ping-pong with Henry, a stocky, lively patient around my age. Then I saw his name on my list of patients on the large whiteboard that paired patients with their primary therapists. AdvertisementExcerpted from The Bipolar Therapist: A Journey from Madness to Love and Meaning by Marcia Naomi Berger.

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☆ If Google is doubling down on risky AI features, experts say it needs to be clear about what can go wrong
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-15 | by ( Ana Altchek | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

AdvertisementGoogle notes that "Generative AI is experimental" in AI Overviews. Google is far from the only company figuring out the risks of generative AI products. Microsoft also said on Thursday that it would hold off on launching an AI tool intended to be available when its CoPilot PCs ship after privacy concerns arose. The alternative is to be more gradual about releasing features and not place them at the center if they're not fully ready, he said. But while generative AI isn't fully bulletproof at the moment, it's important to balance timing with innovation and accuracy, Yamin said.

Persons: —, Liz Reid, Reid, they're, Gaingels Lorenzo Thione, Thione, Tim Cook, Copyleaks Alon Yamin, Yamin Organizations: Service, Big Tech, Google, Business, CNBC, Apple Intelligence, Microsoft

☆ Hollywood trainer Tracy Anderson's famous 'method' is 'uncopyrightable,' a judge ruled
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-14 | by ( Katie Warren | Natalie Musumeci | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewIn a blow to celebrity trainer Tracy Anderson, a federal judge ruled this week that the fitness pioneer's famous exercise "method" is "uncopyrightable." The high-profile fitness guru said in the lawsuit that Roup copied her signature workout, the "Tracy Anderson Method" or "TA Method" — a dance-based workout routine. The order added, "And because the TA Method is uncopyrightable, the Court need not reach the issues of whether the TA Method could be considered choreography and if TAMB [Tracy Anderson Mind and Body] actually owns the copyrights." "We are pleased with the Court's ruling unequivocally rejecting Tracy Anderson's copyright claim, finding that the TA Method is not copyrightable, full stop," Bach said. AdvertisementAnother former trainer said that while she was still working at Tracy Anderson, she was reprimanded by management for merely liking former instructors' Instagram posts.

Persons: —, Tracy Anderson, Philip Gutierrez, Anderson, Megan Roup, Roup, Gutierrez, Anderson's, Gina Durham, Durham, Nathaniel Bach, Tracy, Bach, Megan, Samuel Eric Anderson Roup, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Lopez, Victoria Beckham Organizations: Service, Central District of, Business, Roup, Pop Locations: Central District, Central District of California

☆ The complicated partnership between Apple and OpenAI
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-14 | by ( Samantha Murphy Kelly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Nearly an hour later, the iPhone maker announced a much-rumored partnership with OpenAI to bring its ChatGPT technology to devices later this year. “I think Apple will take a pragmatic approach to the OpenAI partnership,” Wood said. Apple said it will not share any personal user information with OpenAI, so inquiries made through ChatGPT won’t be linked to an Apple user’s account. So it came as no surprise when some industry watchers, including Elon Musk, were quick to react to Apple’s partnership with OpenAI. “When users do query ChatGPT, Apple will track the prompts and gather metrics to improve its own models,” he said.

Persons: Sam Altman, Steve Wozniak, OpenAI, Altman, Tim Cook, ”, Ben Wood, “ Apple, Siri, Apple, ” Wood, Jeff Chiu, It’s, ” Cook, it’ll, Wood, Reece Hayden, Elon Musk, Musk, ” Musk, Annette Zimmermann, ” Andrew Cornwall, Forrester, “ Organizations: CNN, Apple, Insight, Apple Intelligence, Nvidia, Microsoft, ChatGPT, ABI Research, Industry, OpenAI, SpaceX, Gartner Locations: China, Washington, Cupertino , Calif

☆ Martin Shkreli is accused of making copies of his one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album before he sold it for $4.75 million
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-13 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read preview"Pharma bro" Martin Shkreli has been accused in a lawsuit of making and sharing copies of a supposedly one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album before he sold it for $4.75 million. The Wu-Tang Clan album that was forfeited by Martin Shkreli, in a handout photo dated July 2021. UNITED STATES MARSHALS SERVICE/ReutersBut it went on to describe multiple alleged examples of Shkreli either playing the album on livestreams or bragging about how many copies he has. During one livestream, during which he is alleged to have played the album, Shkreli said, per the lawsuit: "Of course I made MP3 copies, they're like hidden in safes all around the world." In other comments cited in the lawsuit, Shkreli suggested he'd "sold" copies and that more than 5,000 people had copies.

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☆ AI Is Set to Dominate Cannes Lions Ad Festival This Year
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-13 | by ( Lara O'Reilly | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Read previewArtificial intelligence is expected to be the topic du jour at Cannes Lions this week, when the ad industry descends on the French Riviera for its annual shindig in the sun. Businesses are exploring how they can use AI to perform tasks like copywriting, research, and automating their ad campaigns. A Cannes Lions spokesperson said the festival is expecting 12,000 delegates, though many more ad execs and vendors forgo the official festivities to hobnob at the fringe events. Cannes Lions has set its own rules around AI. "Those who will win will figure out the right mix of AI plus the right influencers plus the right concepts," MediaLink's Wagman said.

Persons: —, there's, Klarna, Wayne Levings, Mark Wagman, Wagman, Jessica Apotheker, Apotheker, Scarlett Johansson, David Droga, Mira Murati, Vidhya Srinivasan, Alexander Chen, Greg James, Publicis, Anthony Yell, Razorfish, Yell, BCG's Apotheker, Queen Latifah, Lando Norris, John Legend, Chrissy Teigen, Deepak Chopra, Jason, Travis Kelce, Lenny Kravitz, Janelle Monáe, MediaLink's Wagman Organizations: Service, Cannes Lions, Lions, Business, Cannes, United Talent Agency, Google, Microsoft, Adobe, Boston Consulting Group, Palais, Accenture, OpenAI, Google Creative, North America, Publicis Groupe, influencers Locations: Americas, MediaLink, Cannes

☆ What is Apple’s AI doing with your data?
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-13 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

As much as possible, Apple will try to process AI prompts directly on your device using smaller AI models. After fulfilling a user’s AI request, Private Cloud Compute scrubs itself of any user data involved in the process, Apple said. For example, when you use ChatGPT, OpenAI discloses that it uses your data to further train its AI models. With Private Cloud Compute, you theoretically won’t have to take Apple’s word that it doesn’t use your data for AI training. Apple’s AI models didn’t spring up out of nowhere.

Persons: Washington CNN —, you’ve, Apple, ChatGPT, Siri, didn’t, OpenAI, ChatGPT’s, ”, Craig Federighi, —, ” “, Apple hasn’t Organizations: Washington CNN, Worldwide Developers, Apple, Apple Intelligence Locations: Apple’s

☆ Apple’s AI: We’ve seen some of this before
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Samantha Murphy Kelly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

On the other hand, however, other AI tools look familiar from what we’ve seen on the market. Ahead of the demo, the company emphasized that the majority of the new tools are powered by Apple Intelligence. If you want your email to sound more professional, or more friendly, Apple says its AI will take a stab. Siri’s AI flexApple really flexes its AI muscle, however, when it comes to Siri, which Apple says is taking a massive step forward by becoming more contextually relevant and more personal. In the demo, Apple showed how someone could upload a picture of vegetables at a farmer’s market and ask what they could make for dinner.

Persons: “, they’re, –, Siri, Craig Federighi, It’ll, they’ve, OpenAI, Apple, Genmoji, Roger Federer, he’s, it’s Organizations: CNN, Developers, Apple, “ Apple Intelligence, Apple Apple Intelligence, Google, Samsung, Catering, Apple Intelligence

☆ An inside look at the weekend the GameStop frenzy began on WallStreetBets
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-10 | by ( Nathaniel Popper | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +19 min

Like Tesla and Palantir, GameStop was a popular stock to short among hedge funds, though GameStop took it to a whole new level. "That's how I feel about these GME posts that are using the 'P' and get in so we can cause an 'S' words that are no-nos." That was enough to make WallStreetBets the seventh-largest holder of GameStop stock, ahead of some of the big Wall Street investment firms that had shown interest in the stock. AdvertisementOn WallStreetBets, Alzmann shared the growing evidence that Cohen was indeed planning to take a more active role at GameStop. AdvertisementBut when Cramer dug into the conversation happening around GameStop on WallStreetBets, he saw that something new and more sophisticated was happening.

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☆ An unchecked AI could usher in a new dark age
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-06 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

One legal expert even warned that AI could potentially usher in a new, modern-day "dark age," or a period of societal decline if the relatively new industry of AI goes largely unregulated. AdvertisementAI regulation, Pasquale said, could prevent many of the problems that could pave the way for this so-called new dark age dynamic. US intellectual property laws related to copyright infringement and state-level publicity rights are among the main legal frameworks being used to potentially regulate AI in the country. That includes how social media affects youth's mental health and the propagation of disinformation and misinformation, he said. AdvertisementHe noted that the ability to regulate social media today exists, but that it's not clear what the effective legal solutions are for the societal problems that have arisen.

Persons: —, Frank Pasquale, OpenAI, Pasquale, Mark Bartholomew, Bartholomew, Harry Surden, We've, Surden Organizations: Service, Business, Cornell Tech, Cornell Law School, Microsoft, University, Buffalo, University of Colorado Law School, Stanford, CodeX, Legal Informatics Locations: United States

☆ Top news app in U.S. has Chinese origins and ‘writes fiction’ with the help of AI
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-06 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

Billing itself as "the go-to source for all things local," Newsbreak says it has over 50 million monthly users. "It seems this 'news' outlet's AI writes fiction they have no problem publishing to readers." Billing itself as "the go-to source for all things local," Newsbreak says it has over 50 million monthly users. Two local community programs assisting disadvantaged people told Reuters they were impacted by erroneous stories produced by NewsBreak's AI. The company launched in the U.S. in 2015 as a subsidiary of Yidian, a Chinese news aggregation app.

Persons: Newsbreak, NewsBreak, Harvest912, Jeff Zheng, Zheng, Norm Pearlstine, Pearlstine, paywalls Organizations: Facebook, Reuters, Fox, AP, CNN, NewsBreak, NewsBreak's, Food, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, LA Times Locations: China, United States, Bridgeton , New Jersey, Small Towns, Mountain View , California, Beijing, Shanghai, America, U.S, Colorado, Erie , Pennsylvania, Yidian, NewsBreak

☆ Meta's AI chatbot says it was trained on millions of YouTube videos. Meta didn't deny it but said the bot could be inaccurate.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-04 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewThe Meta AI chatbot is more willing to share what data it was trained on than Meta is. It expanded Meta AI in April as a chat and image generator function across all its apps, including Instagram and WhatsApp. Meta AI told Business Insider that it was trained on large datasets of transcriptions from YouTube videos. Meta AI initially said its training data included a third-party dataset of 3.7 million transcribed YouTube videos. In responding to further queries about its YouTube training data, Meta AI said its training data included another, larger dataset of transcriptions from 6 million YouTube videos also compiled by a third party.

Persons: —, hasn't, Meta, OpenAI, Meta AI's, We'll, Meta's chatbot, Google's GoogleBot, Kali Hays Organizations: Service, Meta, Facebook, Business, TED, YouTube, NBC News, CNN, Financial Times, US Locations: khays@businessinsider.com

☆ 'Am I delusional?': How to get honest answers according to the former CEO of Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and KFC
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-04 | by ( David Novak | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

They recognize an essential truth: delusional people don't learn well. And how can you possibly know where or how to grow and learn if you don't know your starting point? (Surprise, surprise, it really likes information that proves the story right, a problem called confirmation bias.) If you want to see the world the way it really is, you've got to hunt for the truth. Excerpted from "How Leaders Learn: Master the Habits of the World's Most Successful People" by David Novak with Lari Bishop.

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