🎥 YouTube's Stand on AI Video Training, AI's Impact on Google Books, Countering the Rise of AI Deepfakes

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YouTube Says OpenAI Training Sora With Its Videos Would Break Rules. The use of YouTube videos to train OpenAI’s text-to-video generator would be an infraction of the platform's terms of service, YouTube Chief Executive Officer Neal Mohan said. In his first public remarks on the topic, Mohan said he had no firsthand knowledge of whether OpenAI had, in fact, used YouTube videos to refine its artificial intelligence-powered video creation tool, called Sora. By Davey Alba via Bloomberg

𝕏: YouTube CEO @nealmohan tells me exclusively — if OpenAI is using YouTube videos to train Sora, that would be a “clear violation” of their policies (with @daveyalba) - Emily Chang (@emilychangtv)

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Google Books Is Indexing AI-Generated Garbage. Google Books is indexing low quality, AI-generated books that will turn up in search results, and could possibly impact Google Ngram viewer, an important tool used by researchers to track language use throughout history. I was able to find the AI-generated books with the same method we’ve previously used to find AI-generated Amazon product reviews, papers published in academic journals, and online articles. By Emanuel Maiberg via 404 Media

𝕏: For example, look at this. Scrolling through Google Books, tons of clearly AI-generated garbage. ChatGPT is infecting more and more spaces that are supposed to be about specifically human knowledge and expression - Joseph Cox (@josephfcox)

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The AI deepfake apocalypse is here. These are the ideas for fighting it. AI-generated images are everywhere. They're being used to make nonconsensual pornography, muddy the truth during elections and promote products on social media using celebrity impersonations. When Princess Catherine released a video last month disclosing that she had cancer, social media went abuzz with the latest baseless claim that artificial intelligence was used to manipulate the video. By Gerrit De Vynck via Washington Post

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To Build a Better AI Supercomputer, Let There Be Light. Most artificial intelligence experts seem to agree that taking the next big leap in the field will depend at least partly on building supercomputers on a once unimaginable scale. At an event hosted by the venture capital firm Sequoia last month, the CEO of a startup called Lightmatter pitched a technology that might well enable this hyperscale computing rethink by letting chips talk directly to one another using light. By Will Knight via WIRED

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US and EU commit to links aimed at boosting AI safety and risk research. The European Union and United States put out a joint statement Friday affirming a desire to increase cooperation over artificial intelligence. The agreement covers AI safety and governance, but also, more broadly, an intent to collaborate across a number of other tech issues, such as developing digital identity standards and applying pressure on platforms to defend human rights. By Natasha Lomas via TechCrunch

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