🚸 Are We Allowing AI to Harm Our Children?

It’s Humpday already?! Wow. Time flies by when you’re having fun…

And boy oh boy are we ever. The AI space is rapidly evolving and we have a front-row seat. So enjoy the show.

Here’s what’s cookin’ in today’s issue:

• 🎨 Zoom’s AI Rebrand

• 🚸 Are We Allowing AI to Harm Our Children?

• 👻 Ghostwriter Stirs Debate over A.I. in Music Industry

Plus some killer new AI tools that hit our database.

Let’s rumble!

Hey Zoom, Please Don’t Change Your Name To Z

🎨 Zoom’s AI Rebrand

Overview

To maintain its competitiveness in the saturated video conferencing market, Zoom is revitalizing and rebranding several of its AI features, including the Zoom IQ, now called the AI Companion. The company drew controversy over its terms of service, implying customers' videos could be utilized to train its AI tools and models. This resulted in Zoom amending its policy to state such customer data wouldn't be incorporated into AI training.

Key Points

• Zoom's refurbished AI Companion, drawn from the same technology as Zoom IQ, is effortlessly integrated with other arms of the Zoom ecosystem, including Zoom Whiteboard, Team Chat, and Mail.

• Zoom's AI Companion will introduce a ChatGPT-like bot, allowing users to communicate directly and take actions during meetings, such as summarizing key points and creating support tickets.

• This revamping comes as a crucial moment for Zoom, struggling with increased competition and a recent quarterly loss, whereby the company had to lay off 15% of its staff.

Why It Matters

Zoom's decision to enhance its AI features underlines the growing demand for smart, automated solutions to streamline remote collaboration. At the same time, the controversy around their use of customer data emphasizes the evolving conversation around user data and privacy concerns, an issue that companies leveraging AI and machine learning technology must address to retain user trust.

Source: TechCrunch

What’s Happenin’ On Social

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Generative AI Has A Problem

🚸 Are We Allowing AI to Harm Our Children?

Overview

Top prosecutors from all 50 U.S. states have petitioned Congress to examine how AI can be manipulated to exploit children through pornography. They have urged the federal legislative body to create an expert commission to study these AI usages — particularly AI-generated images — and subsequently draft legislation to further safeguard against such exploitation.

Key Points

• The attorneys general's request asks for the creation of an expert commission to investigate specifically how AI is exploited against children.

• AI poses dangers in terms of creating "deepfake" scenarios involving children, altering the real child's likeness from social media images to depict abuse, and digitally creating a fictional child image for pornographic purposes.

• Leaders from both parties, Republican and Democratic, were called upon to act on the bipartisan push, with prompts for further introspective actions against potential state-level legal vulnerabilities to AI-based child exploitation.

Why It Matters

The exploitation of children through AI is a critical issue of child rights and digital safety, warranting immediate attention and countermeasures. The bipartisan call for legislation, if executed, could majorly advance legal protections against child exploitation. Furthermore, this begs an urgent re-evaluation of existing laws concerning AI's broader societal impact, thus potentially clipping legal blind spots in the swiftly evolving digital arena.

We hope that laws are passed soon to protect our children from the evil side of AI.

Source: APNews

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Fake Music On The Rise

👻 Ghostwriter Stirs Debate over A.I. in Music Industry

Overview

The anonymously named music creator "Ghostwriter", infamous for an illicit AI-assisted track mimicking famous singers Drake and the Weeknd, has sparked intense discussion within the music industry. Despite the initial backlash, Ghostwriter and his team continued to negotiate with significant figures from the industry on utilizing AI for music creation. The group's recent track "Whiplash" extends this contentious subject, drawing attention to AI's potential impact on music creators and copyright law.

Key Points

• Ghostwriter's AI-driven music track "Heart on My Sleeve", using voice effects resembling Drake and the Weeknd, was swiftly removed from streaming services due to copyright issues, yet gained popularity on social media.

• The subsequent negotiations between Ghostwriter's team and industry leaders included ways to manage and optimize the application of AI in music creation.

• Ghostwriter's recent track “Whiplash”, using AI vocal filters to simulate rappers Travis Scott and 21 Savage, posed a bold challenge to the industry and hinted at the possibilities that AI offers to music creation.

Why It Matters

The advent of AI-driven music compositions underscores the increasingly integrated role of technology in the creative industries. The GhostWriter case indicates a potential paradigm shift in music creation and copyright law, challenging the existing frameworks. Furthermore, it shows how the appropriate regulation and adoption of these technologies can create new opportunities for artists and reshape the music industry landscape.

Source: NYTimes

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Tool Highlight From Our Database

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Within our extensive database of over 8,000 AI tools, today's featured tool is just one of the standout innovations.

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That’s it for today! Thanks for reading. If you enjoyed this issue head over to https://bestofai.com to find more tools, tricks, insights, and news.

Until next time, stay safe.

-Best of AI Team

Note: This issue was written in collaboration with ChatGPT, Grammarly, Lexica and edited by a human. Welcome to the future.