🚫 AI Misuse in Politics, AI's 'Fake' Indigenous Art, and Lamborghini's Tech Leap
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OpenAI suspends bot developer for presidential hopeful Dean Phillips. The artificial intelligence company OpenAI banned the developer of a bot mimicking long shot Democratic presidential hopeful Rep. Dean Phillips — the first action that the maker of ChatGPT has taken in response to what it sees as a misuse of its AI tools in a political campaign. By Elizabeth Dwoskin via Washington Post
𝕏: OpenAI/ChatGPT has banned Dean Philips, a challenger to Joe Biden. - Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray)
AI is producing 'fake' Indigenous art trained on real artists' work without permission. One Indigenous artist said the process of using their art to train AI models that competes with them for work is a ‘very colonial mindset’. People are training artificial intelligence on Indigenous art without the artists’ permission to create inauthentic works, which are selling online on platforms run by companies such as Adobe and eBay. By Cam Wilson via Crikey
𝕏: “AI-generated Indigenous art is appearing on online marketplaces where art and derivative products are sold-often directly competing with the work from real Indigenous artists-despite…often having policies that are supposed to protect Indigenous culture.” - Katie Conrad (@KatieConradKS)
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Lamborghini licenses MIT's new high-capacity, fast-charging organic battery tech. Lithium-ion batteries have come a long way, but in many ways they haven't come far enough. They charge faster than ever before, but there's still room for improvement. The materials they're made of, particularly cobalt and nickel, are pricey and problematic. By Tim De Chant via TechCrunch
𝕏: Very interesting to see @Lamborghini licensing an organic cathode material from @MIT The fast charging properties are what makes TAQ attractive to the OEM This is the first organic cathode license for an EV I have seen - James Frith (@JamesTFrith)
Why America's controls on sales of AI tech to China are so leaky. GINA RAIMONDO seemed frustrated when she took the stage at the Reagan National Defence Forum in California in December. The Department of Commerce, which she leads, had just tightened restrictions on the sale of American semiconductors to China. The Economist
𝕏: "Nvidia ... has earned between 21% and 26% of its revenues from China over the past few years. In the nine months to October the company took in $8.4bn from the Chinese market" - Shashank Joshi (@shashj)
Needle in a haystack: How enterprises can safely find practical generative AI use cases. AI, particularly generative AI and large language models (LLMs), has made tremendous technical strides and is reaching the inflection point of widespread industry adoption. With McKinsey reporting that AI high-performers are already going “all in on artificial intelligence,” companies know they must embrace the latest AI technologies or be left behind. By Michael Li via VentureBeat
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