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Tuesday’s Top Story: Apple revealed Apple Intelligence, their version of AI yesterday. Keep scrolling to learn what that means.

Here’s What’s On The Menu For Today

• 🤖 Meta Using Old Content To Train AI

• ✨  Apple Unveils New AI (Apple Intelligence)

• 📰 News Hot Off The Press

• 💰️ Newly Added AI Tools 

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TRENDING STORIES

TODAY’S TOP STORIES

Meta to use Instagram and Facebook posts from as far back as 2007 to train artificial intelligence tools

Meta's new privacy policy, effective June 26, 2024, will allow the company to use public content shared by users aged 18 and above on Facebook and Instagram, dating back to 2007, to train its AI models. This includes posts, photos, captions, comments, and Stories, but excludes private messages.

• Users in Australia cannot opt out of having their public data used for AI training, unlike those in the EU and Illinois who can object due to data protection laws.

• Digital rights groups have filed complaints, accusing Meta of infringing on privacy rights by using years' worth of user content without consent.

• Meta claims its approach complies with privacy laws and is consistent with how other tech firms use data to develop AI experiences.

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xAI might be working on image generation

Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, is making strides in enhancing its Grok chatbot with multimodal inputs, allowing users to submit images and receive text-based responses.

Recent developer documents indicate progress towards implementing this feature, with a Python script sample demonstrating how to generate text responses based on both text and image inputs using the xAI software development kit.

• Grok-1.5V will introduce "multimodal models in a number of domains", as hinted in xAI's blog post last month.

• A Python script in the developer docs shows how to utilize the xAI SDK to generate responses from text prompts and images.

• This advancement marks a significant leap for Grok, which has been lagging behind competitors like OpenAI's ChatGPT in the multimodal conversational chatbot space.

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Buzzy AI Search Engine Perplexity Is Directly Ripping Off Content From News Outlets

The AI search engine Perplexity has been accused of plagiarizing content from major news outlets like Forbes, CNBC, and Bloomberg for its new "Perplexity Pages" feature that allows users to curate content on specific topics.

Perplexity's aggregated posts contain nearly verbatim excerpts and images from the outlets' original reporting, with only small logos or circular stamps attributing the sources. This lack of transparent attribution has raised ethical concerns over journalistic integrity.

• Perplexity's Pages closely mirror exclusive reporting from Forbes on Eric Schmidt's drone project, CNBC's story on Elon Musk rerouting chips, and Bloomberg's coverage of Apple exploring home robots.

• The posts provide minimal attribution, making it easy for users to share the Perplexity links instead of the original sources.

• When queried, Perplexity's AI acknowledged replicating journalists' work without full attribution is unethical.

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AI QUICK TIP

✨ Lazy AI Tip

In this context, a "lazy" person is someone who looks for shortcuts and more efficient ways to complete difficult tasks rather than just doing things the conventional way.

So, let us give you the ultimate lazy AI tip.

Let’s say that you’re watching a video on YouTube, and there is a wall of text you want to copy.

Just take a screenshot of the text and pop it into ChatGPT.

Then, ask it to read the image and write verbatim what’s in the image.

ChatGPT will do exactly that, and now you have your text.

We do this constantly since we watch tons of content and sometimes want to save what we see. It’s an awesome hack, so use it!

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MORE NEWS

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This is AI's 'next wave,' according to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (link)

Google Deepmind says open-ended AI is key to achieving superintelligence (link)

Meta training AI products through user data breaks European law, claim activists (link)

Human Native AI is building the marketplace for AI training licensing deals (link)

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveils Meta AI expansion and new WhatsApp Business features at Conversations 2024 (link)

Adobe clarifies it does not train Firefly Gen AI models on customer content (link)

Promptframes: Evolving the Wireframe for the Age of AI (link)

Microsoft recalls ‘Recall’ (link)

Fake beauty queens charm judges at the Miss AI pageant (link)

Humanoid tourist: Watch AI-powered robot climb the Great Wall of China (link)

Anthropic posted a new blog detailing the process behind crafting its Claude AI model’s personality (link)

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says we should not slow down AI development based on dystopian sci-fi scenarios (link)

Microsoft is outsourcing its best AI, tech CEO says — and that’s good news for Google (link)

Meta Platforms to Use Social Media Posts From Europe to Train AI (link)

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✨ Apple Unveils New AI (Apple Intelligence)

Yesterday was all about Apple’s big event, where they showcased new features for their “AI,” which they are calling Apple Intelligence.

Some cool new updates include iPad note calculations:

ChatGPT is now directly integrated into all phones and is as simple as clicking a button.

Siri also got an upgrade. It can now find information on your phone just by using your voice.

Other notable features include:

• AI-driven features for notifications, emails, image generation, and customization options.

• Private Cloud Compute extends device privacy and security to the cloud for Apple Intelligence.

• Natural language search, Clean Up tool, and custom Memories stories added for photos and videos.

• Systemwide Writing Tools powered by ChatGPT assist with content and image generation.

• Siri receives a more powerful and accurate upgrade through generative AI integration.

Despite these updates, some say the event was underwhelming since there were expectations of a Siri upgrade rivaling the GPT-4o voice model, which debuted a few weeks back.

Others are questioning the security risks that integrating with OpenAI presents.

We agree that Apple should have created its own AI instead of partnering with OpenAI.

It just makes more sense if they controlled their own AI rather than having to trust a third-party company that has had some past pitfalls.

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