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title: "AI round-up: week of August 14th"
description: See what’s what around the world of AI from the week of August 14th.
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# [AI round-up: week of August 14th](https://www.akhia.com/insights/benthinking/ai-round-up-week-of-august-14th)

 Written by [Ben Brugler](https://www.akhia.com/insights/benthinking/author/ben-brugler) | Aug 16, 2023 8:03:19 PM

“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](https://hbr.org/2023/08/generative-ai-nxiety?ab=hero-subleft-2)

## News:

**August 16, 2023 from *Forbes***: [96% of Entertainment Companies are Boosting Generative AI Spend](https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2023/08/16/as-hollywood-strikes-96-of-entertainment-companies-are-boosting-generative-ai-spend/)

**August 16, 2023, from *Mashable***: [Snapchat’s My AI chatbot is freaking people out.](https://mashable.com/article/snapchat-my-ai-down-story)

**August 16, 2023 from *Nieman Lab***: [AP and AI. Positioning and AP Stylebook updates.](https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/08/not-a-replacement-of-journalists-in-any-way-ap-clarifies-standards-around-generative-ai/)

→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.](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/16/technology/ai-defcon-hackers.html?unlocked_article_code=wCqCSaBeAhLAf_mcHxQrLv-1UAYH4HNpkr6hjJFlZBh-doLaBfQWS9qgvybxKMruWnDYujtZJdpknUy8xRiAfvTGJQ0RX5L6Tc0LtEhWjZXQ77DUKZ2vMfEtM_pzyzN_woXdM1kqbEuZkVMsEj3i8DwCun-aizj0QSuMIRj_qH3aSw4vGzbHJs0z7t4eh531ZqpT6eS4kiN1OXMvh9Tk0fw0mLtznpbahgfF1Ly2Ssa1wJJ32hT0x8p9HUIkgcCUY5PliBFhW2AcQmYFcQyeQaFwpka8AhYkFEa7y5D7ZBdzMtUWKXqNpqV_gpWrq9E9gw7ZuKstYzgzJmKjT52q_ywiuSL44mYmUDj73Giad72dyYIa1bqJL5Uaapjb8BLUfXxCKiLuLQ)

→(And…it’s not the most secure?)

**August 15, 2023, *Tech Crunch***: [OpenAI Proposes a New Way to Use ChatGPT-4 for Content Moderation](https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/15/openai-proposes-a-new-way-to-use-gpt-4-for-content-moderation/?mc_cid=a18b50e544&mc_eid=3842841185)

**August 15, 2023, *Engadget***: [Google’s Latest AI Trick is Summarizing Long Web Pages](https://www.engadget.com/googles-latest-ai-trick-is-summarizing-long-web-pages-160004700.html?mc_cid=a18b50e544&mc_eid=3842841185)

## The ‘say what, now?’ story of the week:

**August 11, 2023, *The Gazette***: [AI is Helping Iowa Ban Books.](https://www.thegazette.com/k/19-books-pulled-from-mason-city-school-libraries/?mc_cid=b4c0cd1fe7&mc_eid=7324e2371e)

**August 10, 2023, from *Time***: [What Happens When You Use AI to Improve SEO?](https://time.com/6302710/nao-medical-google-ai/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email)

→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](https://www.wsj.com/articles/ai-is-generating-security-risks-faster-than-companies-can-keep-up-a2bdedd4?mod=hp_minor_pos4)

## Perspectives:

**August 16, 2023, Have a Nice Future**: [10 Years Until Chatbots Run the World](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/10-years-until-chatbots-run-the-world/id1516843565?i=1000624625469)

**August 14, 2023, The Most Interesting Thing In Tech**: [The Backlash Against Generative AI](https://www.listentojam.com/jam/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](https://youtu.be/-RqeikWtvMk)
- **Course alert**: [Generative AI Strategy and Best Practices, from AMA](https://www.ama.org/events/training-series/generative-ai-strategy-and-best-practices/)
- *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.](https://copyright.gov/ai/)

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