💻 AI's Reliance on Copyright, Volkswagen Integrates ChatGPT, Google's Web Dominance

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'Impossible' to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says. The developer OpenAI has said it would be impossible to create tools like its groundbreaking chatbot ChatGPT without access to copyrighted material, as pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their products. By Dan Milmo via The Guardian

𝕏: If your business relies on theft, you don’t have a business, you have a racket. - Karla Ortiz (@kortizart)

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Volkswagen is bringing ChatGPT into its cars and SUVs. Volkswagen is getting into the ChatGPT game. The German automaker announced Monday at CES 2024 in Las Vegas plans to add an AI-powered chatbot into all Volkswagen models equipped with its IDA voice assistant. Why? For drivers who want an AI-based chatbot to read researched content out loud to them, of course.  By Kirsten Korosec via TechCrunch

𝕏: NEWS: VW announced today it's bringing ChatGPT into its cars and SUVs. VW says ChatGPT will “enrich conversations, clear up questions, interacting in intuitive language, receive vehicle-specific information, and much more—purely hands-free.” - Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt)

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How Google perfected the web. As the 14th season of Bravo's Real Housewives of New York City came to a close this fall, I found myself on Reddit, reading rumors about the marriage and divorce timeline of one of the show's stars. Redditors wanted more clues about a fishy relationship history to see if they could uncover a cheating scandal. Were divorce papers public record in New York? I wondered. I did a quick Google search to find out. The search results page was filled with my question’s exact words, repeated across site after site — websites for law firms, posts on forums, ads for creepy lookup tools — but the answer to my actual question was harder to find. By Mia Sato via The Verge

𝕏: New from me @verge: I wrote about all the SEO tricks that people say are ruining the web. Table of contents, keyword-addled writing, all that extra text everywhere. The story has visuals that track a fake site as it morphs into a site optimized for Google Search, not readers. - mia sato 佐藤みあ (@MiaRSato)

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Accenture's Tech Vision 2024 is driven by AI unleashing human potential. The vision forecasts a transformative future where the relationship between humanity and technology is at an inflection point. Themed Human by Design: How AI Unleashes the Next Level of Human Potential, the vision presents an optimistic departure from dystopian depictions of technology’s adverse effects on mankind. Accenture released the report at CES 2024, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas this week. By Dean Takahashi via VentureBeat

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Amazon Is Going 'Super Aggressive' on Generative AI. For cybersecurity leaders, generative artificial intelligence evokes hopes of outsmarting relentless hackers, on one hand, and fears of security staff being replaced by the tech on the other. For Stephen Schmidt, chief security officer at Amazon.com, reality resides in the middle.  By Kim S. Nash via Wall Street Journal

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