AI round-up: week of August 14th
“It’s not that anything is on fire. It’s that everyone in our organization is holding a flame thrower.”
-from ‘Generative AI-nxiety” (HBR)
Yeah, we’re going to go ahead and start with that article…because it’s one of the most important reads to date.
August 14, 2023 from HBR: Generative AI-nxiety
News:
August 16, 2023 from Forbes: 96% of Entertainment Companies are Boosting Generative AI Spend
August 16, 2023, from Mashable: Snapchat’s My AI chatbot is freaking people out.
August 16, 2023 from Nieman Lab: AP and AI. Positioning and AP Stylebook updates.
→In this PR purist’s opinion…this is a big moment.
August 16, 2023, The New York Times: AI is Being Hacked, for Our Own Good.
→(And…it’s not the most secure?)
August 15, 2023, Tech Crunch: OpenAI Proposes a New Way to Use ChatGPT-4 for Content Moderation
August 15, 2023, Engadget: Google’s Latest AI Trick is Summarizing Long Web Pages
The ‘say what, now?’ story of the week:
August 11, 2023, The Gazette: AI is Helping Iowa Ban Books.
August 10, 2023, from Time: What Happens When You Use AI to Improve SEO?
→Unicorns consume ketamine. (No, I’m not making this up.)
August 10, 2023 from WSJ: AI is Generating Security Risks Faster Than AI Companies Can Keep Up
Perspectives:
August 16, 2023, Have a Nice Future: 10 Years Until Chatbots Run the World
August 14, 2023, The Most Interesting Thing In Tech: The Backlash Against Generative AI
Resources:
- A little older but worth the watch: How to spot AI generated images
- Course alert: Generative AI Strategy and Best Practices, from AMA
- If you missed it, I posted this on LinkedIn. You will want to bookmark it.
- From the U.S. Copyright Office: Copyright and AI resource center.