Generative AI News - ChatGPT Gets Banned, Deepfakes Get Provenance, Bing Chat Gets Ads, Meta, Canva & More - Voicebot Podcast 313

The Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown for April 6, 2023, focused
on regulators and OpenAI, ChatGPT’s popularity compared to the
iPhone, deepfake disclosure, authentication and ownership,
monetizing those generative AI models, what’s Meta doing, and
more.


Bret Kinsella (that’s me) hosts this week with
guests Nina Schick, the author of the 2020 book Deepfakes,
and Eric Schwartz, head writer at Voicebot.ai. The top
stories in generative AI land this week include:
ChatGPT Gets Banned



A time-out chair for OpenAI and some unfortunate
users: Italy took action. Canada opened an
investigation. France received complaints. Germany and
Ireland indicated they’d like to get involved. Regulators
have OpenAI in their sights. How will it go down?


ChatGPT vs. Alexa vs. iPhone



Compared to what?: ChatGPT is a phenomenon,
but how does it stack up to the hype of earlier
products? We compare ChatGPT to some notable break-out hits.


Deepfake Solutions



Provenance in the unreal valley: It’s a
deepfake, but you want to disclose its synthetic origins. You
also want to show its history and ownership. How about
a cryptographic signature from Truepic that tracks
the life of the digital artifact?




The unbearable likeness of your being: Those
amazingly lifelike avatars don’t have a clear ownership model
today. Someone could make a deepfake of you, and what
recourse do you have? However, if you owned the
copyright to your digital likeness…


Bing Chat Ads Arrive



Paying for those GPT-4 inference costs: We
knew they were coming, and now we know what they look like,
at least one format. Bing Chat has ads that look a
lot like what you see in web searches today, with a twist.
Generative AI definitely has a revenue model.


Meta Gets Objective



Alignment is king: Meta rolled out another
researcher-only generative AI model. However, this time it
showed up with a demonstration app. Segment Anything is
a new AI (foundation) model for identifying objects in images
and being able to save them separately from the picture with
two clicks.


Canva, the True Believer



Taking the lead over Microsoft: The Redmond
giant has talked about DALL-E and GPT-4 in Microsoft Designer
and coming to PowerPoint. Canva just started adding new
features. A light skepticism from the company in December
(ironically about new generative AI features) was replaced
by more robust tools and a bigger vision.


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