One Man’s Army of Streaming Bots Reveals a Whole Industry’s Problem

A man in Denmark was sentenced to 18 months in prison today for using fake accounts to trick music streaming services into paying him 2 million Danish kroner ($290,000) in royalties. The unusual case reveals a weak spot in the business model behind the world’s biggest music platforms. The 53-year-old consultant, who had pleaded not … Read more

YC-backed Cambio puts AI bots on the phone to negotiate debt, talk to a bank’s customers

A Y Combinator-backed startup called Cambio is bringing AI to the banking world in a surprising way: it’s putting AI bots on the phone with companies and consumers. The startup began by offering an AI-powered service that negotiated debt collections on behalf of consumers, which helped around 70% of customers resolve their collections and raise … Read more

OpenAI Wants Everyone to Build Their Own Version of ChatGPT

OpenAI announced its new custom chatbot features at its first ever developer conference, OpenAI DevDay, in San Francisco. “You can build a GPT—a customized version of ChatGPT—for almost anything,” Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, said at the event. “Because they combine instructions, expanded knowledge, and actions, they can be more helpful to you.” The company said … Read more

The GitHub Black Market That Helps Coders Cheat the Popularity Contest

The index is a good predictor of whether a company will raise a round, says Konstantin Vinogradov, a general partner at Runa. Around a third of all the companies listed in the index since its launch in 2020 have raised subsequent rounds within the next 12 months, he says. Over time, metrics can invalidate themselves, … Read more

AI Chatbots Are Learning to Spout Authoritarian Propaganda

When you ask ChatGPT “What happened in China in 1989?” the bot describes how the Chinese army massacred thousands of pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square. But ask the same question to Ernie and you get the simple answer that it does not have “relevant information.” That’s because Ernie is an AI chatbot developed by the … Read more

The Meta AI Chatbot Is Mark Zuckerberg’s Answer to ChatGPT

The AI mimics are available today in beta on Facebook Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp. They include a chatbot based on Paris Hilton playing a mystery-solving detective, another based on Snoop Dogg as a dungeon master, and YouTuber Mr. Beast as a chatbot that Meta describes as “the big brother that roasts you—because he cares.” The … Read more

This Showdown Between People and Chatbots Might Preserve You Secure From Dangerous AI

Massive language fashions like these powering ChatGPT and different current chatbots have broad and spectacular capabilities as a result of they’re educated with huge quantities of textual content. Michael Sellitto, head of geopolitics and safety at Anthropic, says this additionally provides the techniques a “gigantic potential assault or danger floor.” Microsoft’s head of red-teaming, Ram … Read more

AI bots may quickly grow to be your new customer support agent

Francesco Carta fotografo/Getty Pictures Synthetic intelligence is usually seen as a type of “large dangerous wolf” of expertise, largely due to its potential to disrupt humanity as we all know it. One of many largest theories that set off apocalyptic fears is the concept that AI will steal the roles presently carried out by people, … Read more

Spotify Has an AI Music Drawback—however Bots Love It

If a track is created by synthetic intelligence and listened to by a bot, was it even heard in any respect? It’s an issue music-streaming corporations now face as generative AI is quickly making it simpler for anybody to churn out songs with a couple of clicks, after which ship bots to stream them for money.  … Read more