💣 The Weaponization of AI: Regulation vs. Innovation + 🚫 Sites are blocking ChatGPT crawlers

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Google's experimental NotebookLM allows users to train an AI chatbot on their own documents and research to generate personalized answers, summaries, and insights. While the underlying tech is promising, the current prototype struggles with unreliable responses and lacks robust note-taking features.

However, NotebookLM's auto-generated source guides and citation trails show the potential to enhance document analysis and information discovery and it also highlights how the future of AI will be in making it easy for regular users to train their own models to fit their life and work needs while keeping their data in a more private environment. But hey, this is Google, so beware of privacy issues.

NotebookLM and self-train AI tools could become powerful personalized AI assistants. As for now, we must continue learning how to harness this tech and be careful where and how we share our data.

💣 The Weaponization of AI: Regulation vs. Innovation

The use of AI as a weapon by hackers has raised concerns, leading to calls for regulation. However, excessive rules could benefit big tech and limit competition. Balancing oversight without burdening smaller players is crucial. Transparency, accountability, partnerships, and fair licensing can nurture an ethical AI ecosystem. Addressing AI-generated content detection is also essential, as regulation alone isn't enough.

🚫 Websites like Amazon and the New York Times are blocking OpenAI's web crawler.

Numerous major companies, including Amazon and The New York Times, are actively blocking GPTBot—a web crawler developed by OpenAI. 

GPTBot was intended to gather data for training OpenAI's chatbot, ChatGPT. Presently, around 70 out of the top 1,000 global websites have taken steps to prevent GPTBot from accessing their content.

This move comes after Originality.ai, a company that examines AI-generated and plagiarized content, revealed that over 15% of the 100 most popular websites have recently blocked GPTBot. The six largest websites to block the bot include Amazon, NY Times, CNN, WikiHow, Shutterstock, and Quora. The trend of blocking GPTBot has been on the rise since its launch two weeks ago. Websites are using a tool called robots.txt to block GPTBot by adding it to the "disallow" list. This action highlights growing concerns over copyright and data ownership related to web crawlers and AI training. OpenAI has made efforts to obscure the use of copyrighted material in training ChatGPT.

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