Curated Commons // Edition 168
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If you are a camera company, how do you compete with Gen AI?
How can you continue to encourage your customers to buy cameras and take pictures if Gen AI can create compelling pictures (and fakes!) from the armchair? Some vendors believe a digital signature can help. - Read here
Influencers meet their match
Human influencers are facing the heat from…AI-created fakes. Jobs enabled by algorithms, now impacted by a different algorithm. - Read here
And a case of an influencer in Japan being charged criminally for their antics in a restaurant! - Read here
Turing Test, but for AI
Can an LLM guess that you are a human? The times sure are changing! - Play here
Some broad-based growth this
Something’s cooking in the stock market… - Read here ($)
72 per cent of S&P 500 stocks are underperforming the index year-to-date — the most since at least 2000, according to the data. Even worse, one-third of S&P 500 stocks are down on the year, despite the 24 per cent rally we’ve seen in the broader market.
AI companies love media companies
How else will they train their LLMs? And for media companies, another source of licensing revenue. - Read here
What happens when the Sun dies?
Will it eat earth? or push us further out into the solar system? Not tomorrow, but in some 5 billion years. - Read here
A pay gap exacerbated by…obesity
The hits keep coming! - Read here ($)
It’s OK to accept Gen AI took you by surprise
Amusing to see every second company say they’ve been working on Gen AI for decades! Looking like those ads for Android devs with ten+ years experience in 2009. This is the CTO of Meta/Facebook talking. - Read here
Robots are getting better
Physical tasks aren’t too far from a robot + algo takeover. This one surpassed humans at playing labyrinth. Learning in under 6 hours! - Read here ($)
Facial recognition gone wrong
A terrible deployment of a tech that’s not fully mature yet, coupled with even worse management decisions! - Read here
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