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Here’s What’s On The Menu For Today

• 🤖 AI Political Deepfakes

• ✨ Power of AI Regeneration

• 📰 News Hot Off The Press

• 💰️ Newly Added AI Tools 

TOOL HIGHLIGHT

TODAY’S FEATURED TOOL

🖥️ Everlearns Mindmap Generator

Create, organize, and visualize your ideas effortlessly with our mindmap generator tool. Perfect for content creators, educators, teachers, teaching assistants, tutors, or homeschooling parents alike to visualize concepts for your audience, students, or children.

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TRENDING STORIES

TODAY’S TOP STORIES

TikTok AI Avatars Coming To TikTok Ads

TikTok is introducing AI-generated avatars and language dubbing tools to help brands and creators expand their global reach by breaking down language barriers.

• Symphony Digital Avatars come in stock and custom varieties, with stock avatars based on paid actors and custom avatars designed to resemble specific creators or brand spokespersons.

• Symphony AI Dubbing enables creators to dub their content into over ten languages, automatically detecting the spoken language, transcribing, translating, and producing a dubbed video.
  

• TikTok has not yet disclosed the pricing structure for these new AI marketing tools.

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Edward Snowden Warns About NSA Director Joining OpenAI

Edward Snowden has sounded the alarm on OpenAI's appointment of former NSA director Paul Nakasone to its board, calling it a "willful, calculated betrayal of the rights of every person on Earth."

• Nakasone, who served as NSA director from 2018 to 2024, joined OpenAI's Safety and Security Committee to help strengthen the company's AI cybersecurity efforts.
  

• Snowden sees the combination of AI with mass surveillance data as putting "terrible powers in the hands of an unaccountable few."
  

• The appointment follows internal criticism of OpenAI's safety culture and the departure of several prominent safety researchers.

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How India Used Deepfakes For Political Advances…A Look At What Is Possible

The 2024 Indian election saw extensive use of AI and deepfakes by political parties, but surprisingly, it was largely used constructively to better connect with voters across language barriers rather than for widespread disinformation.

• Parties spent an estimated $50 million on authorized AI-generated content, including deepfakes of current and deceased politicians, for targeted voter communication.

• AI tools like Bhashini were used to translate PM Modi's speeches with voiceovers into multiple regional languages to make his personality more accessible.

• While there were instances of adversarial uses like AI-generated meme wars and spreading hateful rhetoric, the harm stemmed more from the rhetoric itself than the AI tools.

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QUICK TIP

AI QUICK TIP

✨ Power of Regeneration

When it comes to working with AI models, our biggest tip is simple yet profound: regenerate and edit often.

Why? Because once an AI starts heading down the wrong path, it can be incredibly challenging to correct its course.

It’s like trying to navigate a ship that's already off-track – much easier to adjust your sails before you’re too far off course.

From an AI's perspective, the process of generating content is like painting a picture. Each brushstroke (or in our case, each word) builds upon the last.

If the initial strokes go awry, the entire image can become distorted.

By frequently regenerating, we ensure each iteration is an improvement, constantly refining the output.

Moreover, editing early and often allows us to catch minor mistakes before they snowball into larger issues. Think of it as proofreading a draft multiple times.

The more you review, the more polished the final product becomes. This iterative process is essential for maintaining quality and accuracy.

In practical terms, this means not hesitating to hit the "regenerate" button. It’s not a sign of failure but a strategy for success.

Each regeneration is a step closer to the perfect response, a chance to align the AI’s output with your expectations.

So, next time you're working with an AI model, remember this: don't be afraid to regenerate and edit. It’s your best tool for steering the AI in the right direction, ensuring the final output is as polished and precise as possible.

QUICK BITS

MORE NEWS

Meta and Amazon bosses make the case for AI optimism (link)

YouTube is experimenting with Notes, a crowdsourced feature that lets users add context to videos (link)

Google DeepMind Shifts From Research Lab to AI Product Factory (link)

White Castle is taking drive-thru orders using an AI voice system that claims to be more accurate than a human (link)

Amazon-Powered AI Cameras Used to Detect Emotions of Unwitting UK Train Passengers (link)

OpenAI shared some new capabilities around Color Health, a copilot application that assists doctors in creating personalized treatment plans for cancer patients (link)

Global audiences suspicious of AI-powered newsrooms, report finds (link)

NVIDIA Announces Omniverse Microservices to Supercharge Physical AI (link)

Meta pauses AI models launch in Europe due to Irish request (link)

McDonald’s will stop testing AI to take drive-thru orders, for now (link)

NVIDIA Releases Open Synthetic Data Generation Pipeline for Training Large Language Models (link)

Former Meta engineers launch Jace, an AI agent that works independently (link)

Microsoft’s star AI chief peers into OpenAI’s code, highlighting an unusual rivalry (link)

How Amazon blew Alexa’s shot to dominate AI, according to more than a dozen employees who worked on it (link)

AI ON SOCIAL

FROM THE WEB

✨ Runway Launches Gen-3

Runway has unveiled Gen-3 Alpha, a new AI video model capable of generating highly realistic 10-second video clips with precise details and emotional expressions. Gen-3 Alpha will soon be available in Runway's product, powering existing modes like text-to-video and introducing new capabilities.

Check out some of the new types of videos you can create above.

NEW TOOLS

FROM OUR DATABASE

HeyShort - an AI-powered text-to-speech short video maker designed to convert written contents into engaging short videos. It's particularly useful for enhancing social media presence on platforms like Tiktok, YouTube Shorts, and Instagram Reels.

Drawbert - an AI-powered tool that creates digital paintings from photos provided by the user. The software accepts any photo and transforms it into a piece of art within seconds.

AI Headshot Pro -  a tool designed to transform user-uploaded selfies into professional headshots using AI technology. It provides a quick and easy-to-navigate service that yields high-quality results.

AI Sticker: Face Photo to Art - an innovative application harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) to generate personalized stickers from user-uploaded photographs.

MovieAIPoster - an AI-based tool that allows users to generate movie posters efficiently. Its primary functionality involves using AI to craft various posters based on prompts given by the user.

ResumeWiz - an AI-powered tool aimed at creating professional resumes in an efficient and user-friendly manner. The key feature of ResumeWiz is its ability to provide resume building guidance in a structured, step-by-step process.

Tattoos AI -an innovative platform designed to help users explore and create unique tattoo designs. The platform features an extensive collection of tattoo designs and ideas, which users can browse to find inspirations that match their style and personality.

COACH - an AI-enabled career coaching tool aimed to facilitate career readiness for a wide user base, ranging from students to job-seekers.

See more of the newly added tools here.

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