AI News And Notes, May 13, 2024
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🤖📰 AI News
I cannot believe this first story is real. ChatGPT maker OpenAI exploring how to 'responsibly' make AI erotica by Bobby Allyn for NPR. OpenAI is opening the door to this despite the harm of deepfake AI porn. This tells me they are desperate for cash.
Dr. Lauren M.E. Goodlad shared this article about young people using AI to generate cover letters and said, “Let's not kid ourselves that bots are making our youth smarter, more creative, or better equipped for the workforce.”
Rick Wormeli wrote a post about AI and education, With AI, Let’s Keep Students’ Learning Paramount.
John Warmer wrote a post for educators: Re: GenAI, Do Not Listen to Nonexperts in Education.
Remember my post about The Eliza Effect? Jacob Silverman wrote about the inventor of Eliza, Joseph Weizenbaum in The New Republic. The Inventor of the Chatbot Tried to Warn Us About A.I.
If you want proof that shame is dead, read OpenAI, Mass Scraper of Copyrighted Work, Claims Copyright Over Subreddit's Logo by Jason Koebler in 404.
Sam Altman Says AI Will Be Like A Super Smart Person Who “Knows Absolutely Everything” About Your Life - Quick Question: Why Would Anyone Want This? by Noor Al-Sibai for The_Byte
AI Startups Are Suddenly In Big Trouble by Noor Al-Sibai for The_Byte.
Tracey Dennis-Tiwary wrote Stop Designing Chatbots to Perform Human on her Substack.
Did you see that dreadful iPad ad Apple dropped last week? I wrote about it and how it connects to education.
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