“OpenDream is an innovative AI tool that enables users to generate images easily. With a simple prompt, users can create unique and personalized images quickly. This tool is easily accessible online and offers a wide range of customization options to make your images stand out. Whether you need a quick graphic for a social media… Continue Reading
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wtf does this company do?
“this world needs better copywriters for landing pages but till then we have good ol’ gpt-3 to help us out.” Enter a business domain url, and this site will respond with a company summary. Next you can choose to receive an explanation about what the company does, and then maybe even choose to “roast” the… Continue Reading
The Nightmare of AI-Powered Gmail Has Arrived
New York Mag – The Intelligencer: “With the release of tools like DALL-E and ChatGPT, Google — once the presumptive industry leader in artificial-intelligence research — suddenly finds itself playing catch-up. The rise of OpenAI was reportedly a “code red” emergency at the company, which had quietly been working on, but not really releasing, similar… Continue Reading
Hello Dolly: Democratizing the magic of ChatGPT with open models
databricks: “We show that anyone can take a dated off-the-shelf open source large language model (LLM) and give it magical ChatGPT-like instruction following ability by training it in 30 minutes on one machine, using high-quality training data. Surprisingly, instruction-following does not seem to require the latest or largest models: our model is only 6 billion… Continue Reading
Utah parent says the Bible contains porn – remove from school libraries
The Salt Lake Tribune: “Frustrated by the books being removed from school libraries, a Utah parent says there’s one that hasn’t been challenged yet, but that they believe should be, for being “one of the most sex-ridden books around.”So they’ve submitted a request for their school district in Davis County to now review the Bible… Continue Reading
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, March 25, 2023
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, March 25, 2023 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly… Continue Reading
AI chatbots compared: Bard vs. Bing vs. ChatGPT
The Verge: “The chatbots are out in force, but which is better and for what task? We’ve compared Google’s Bard, Microsoft’s Bing, and OpenAI’s ChatGPT models with a range of questions spanning common requests from holiday tips to gaming advice to mortgage calculations. Naturally, this is far from an exhaustive rundown of these systems’ capabilities… Continue Reading
Internet Archive
Internet Archives Blog: “Today’s lower court decision in Hachette v. Internet Archive is a blow to all libraries and the communities we serve. This decision impacts libraries across the US who rely on controlled digital lending to connect their patrons with books online. It hurts authors by saying that unfair licensing models are the only… Continue Reading
American Library Association reports record number of demands to censor library books and materials in 2022
“The American Library Association (ALA) today released new data documenting 1,269 demands to censor library books and resources in 2022, the highest number of attempted book bans since ALA began compiling data about censorship in libraries more than 20 years ago [the 2022 data compiled by ALA represents only a snapshot of book censorship throughout… Continue Reading
Is A.I. Art Stealing from Artists?
The New Yorker – According to the lawyer behind a new class-action suit, every image that a generative tool produces “is an infringing, derivative work.” By Kyle Chayka – “…Last month, McKernan joined a class-action lawsuit with two other artists, Sarah Andersen and Karla Ortiz, filed by the attorneys Matthew Butterick and Joseph Saveri, against… Continue Reading
Risk of ‘Industrial Capture’ Looms Over AI Revolution
FT.com: “There’s a colossal shift going on in artificial intelligence — but it’s not the one some may think. While advanced language-generating systems and chatbots have dominated news headlines, private AI companies have quietly entrenched their power. Recent developments mean that a handful of individuals and corporations now control much of the resources and knowledge… Continue Reading
The 2023 Submarine Cable Globe
“Every year the telecommunications company Telegeography releases a new, updated version of its Submarine Cable map. This map shows all the undersea telecommunication cables which carry data around the world.The 2023 Submarine Cable Map is now available. Subsea cables carry telecommunication signals under the oceans, communicating information between different countries and regions of the world.… Continue Reading
