🔮 Actors are inking deals to monetize their AI selves + 🛡️ Can ChatGPT moderate content?

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Sending you this and a lot of love from Rainy California where Hilary was allegedly going to flood the state. At least our area only got a much-needed long light rain, but some others have been very affected and we hope things get back to normal swiftly. On the tech front, things will never be normal, now some actors are opting in to get cloned and inking deals to monetize their Ai selves. Also, ChatGPT may be used for content moderation, is it a good idea? we discuss. We share with you learning resources to master midjourney and the best AI search engines.

• 💪🏽 Important AI News and Trends

• 🧰 AI Tools of the Day (Search Engines

• 📚 The Learning Corner (Midjourney)

• 🔮 If you can’t beat them Join them: Hollywood actors adopt AI cloning.

• 💻 Meta's Next Big AI Will Reportedly Be a Code-Generating Bot

• 🛡️ GPT-4 for Content Moderation: Boon or Bane?

💪🏽 Important AI News and Trends.

• AI-generated art can't be copyrighted, federal judge rules, with potential consequences for Hollywood studios.

• Big companies use AI-generated ads because they’re cheap

• 77-year-old talks to an AI companion robot called ElliQ over a dozen times daily to combat her loneliness.

• 4 things Claude AI can do that ChatGPT can't.

• Even AI Hasn’t Helped Microsoft’s Bing Chip Away at Google’s Search Dominance.

• Anti-hype LLM reading list - Great list of more realistic articles about AI and LLMs.

🌐 Web3 and Tech news.

• Web3 was supposed to make sure the original artist always got paid. Not so much anymore.

• Scientists recreate a Pink Floyd classic using only people's brains.

• Ralph Lauren CEO Louvet Targets Young Shoppers in the Metaverse

• Coinbase International volumes pick up, topping $280 million in one day.

• The Flippening: why the Ethereum crypto supremacy is only about time.

🧰 AI Tools of the Day

AI Search Engines.

• Perplexity AI - AI-powered search tools.

• Metaphor - Language model-powered search.

• Phind - AI-based search engine.

• ChatGPT (with Browsing Plugin).

• You.com - A search engine built on AI that provides users with a customized search experience while keeping their data 100% private.

• Consensus - A search engine that uses AI to find insights into research papers.

Do you want more tools to streamline your work and life? Download them below here.

🔮 If you can’t beat them Join them: Hollywood actors adopt AI cloning.

In 2008, visual effects director Remington Scott had an idea while watching Will Smith get 3D photogrammetry scans done for a movie - what if actors owned their own digital scans rather than the studio? This led Scott to start the company Hyperreal in 2020, which creates "Hypermodels" - digital human identities that performers can license out themselves. Hyperreal has used this tech to de-age Paul McCartney in a music video and put Madison Beer in a VR performance, and will release a digital double of Pelé created before his death. The goal is to give talent more control and revenue from their digital likenesses used in films, marketing, and beyond.

Additionally, Startup Hour One uses deepfakes to create AI video characters from people's faces, which clients like influencers use to quickly generate synthetic videos, reducing the need for human actors. Though it provides income to lend their face, it raises concerns about impacts on acting jobs and protecting people's likenesses.

💻 Meta's Next Big AI Will Reportedly Be a Code-Generating Bot

Meta is reportedly developing a new AI system called Code Llama that will automatically generate code for developers as they type, competing with proprietary coding AIs from companies like OpenAI and Google.

Code Llama will be open source and freely available online, aligning with Meta's strategy of releasing widely accessible AI models. The system builds on Meta's LlaMA language model and could be released as soon as next week. While Meta is late to the consumer AI space, its open-source approach has gained traction, though the company also aims to implement AI across its products like Facebook.

🛡️ GPT-4 for Content Moderation: Boon or Bane?

GPT-4, a large language model, has plans to assist with content moderation on digital platforms. GPT-4 can interpret content policies and label content accordingly. But there are many pros and cons:

Pros:

• Faster iteration on policy changes - can update policies and retrain AI moderators in hours rather than months.

• More consistent labeling by AI moderators compared to humans.

• Reduces mental burden on human moderators.

Cons:

• AI judgments can introduce unwanted biases from training data.

• AI still makes mistakes, so human oversight is necessary.

• Does not fully automate moderation, still needs humans for complex cases and policy refinement.

Overall, GPT-4 shows promise for assisting with content moderation by quickly adapting to new policies and labeling straightforward content, but human moderators are still critical for handling nuance, setting policies, and monitoring AI bias/errors. More work is needed to enhance GPT-4's capabilities and integrate it safely into moderation systems.

📚 The Learning Corner

A Guide to Midjourney Prompts.

• Midjourney community showcase with prompts - Hover over an image and the prompt will appear at the bottom of it.

• ALL styles and references for midjourney. - A long guide to very specific prompts. Choose your style and learn from those examples.

• A complete guide to midjourney prompts. - A basic guide.

For more get our guide below…