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Runway’s AI video generator trained on thousands of scraped YouTube videos

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Runway’s AI video generator trained on thousands of scraped YouTube videos Runway CEO Cristóbal Valenzuela onstage at Vox Media’s 2023 Code Conference. | Photo by Jerod Harris/Getty Images for Vox MediaRunway trained its AI text-to-video generator on thousands of YouTube videos and pirated films, according to a report from 404 Media. A spreadsheet of training data obtained by the outlet includes links to YouTube channe…

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Google’s Gemini AI is getting faster with its Flash upgrade

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Google’s Gemini AI is getting faster with its Flash upgrade Illustration: The VergeGoogle’s Gemini AI chatbot will be able to respond to you more quickly and process more content in prompts thanks to an upgrade to the company’s Gemini 1.5 Flash AI model. With the upgrade to 1.5 Flash, you’ll see “across-the-board improvements in quality and latency, with especially noticeable improvements in reasoning a…

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Anyone want to trial an AI powered phone line for online stores?

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Anyone want to trial an AI powered phone line for online stores? Hey guys, I’ve been playing around with Voice AI and managed to get something working that can learn about a store and answer customer calls pretty well. Would appreciate if anyone could beta test it or give feedback. Completely free of course! submitted by /u/TheAreaProblem

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Anthropic’s crawler is ignoring websites’ anti-AI scraping policies

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Anthropic’s crawler is ignoring websites’ anti-AI scraping policies Image: The VergeThe ClaudeBot web crawler that Anthropic uses to scrape training data for AI models like Claude has hammered iFixit’s website almost a million times in a 24-hour period, seemingly violating the repair company’s Terms of Use in the process. “If any of those requests accessed our terms of service, they would have told you that use…

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AI in Social Media: Pioneering Personalization and Collective Connectivity

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AI in Social Media: Pioneering Personalization and Collective Connectivity In the realm of social media, AI is the visionary force propelling us towards a future where algorithms understand our needs before we articulate them, where interactions are seamlessly personalized yet universally impactful. It’s a digital evolution bridging cultures, amplifying voices, and sculpting a collective narrative of innovation and con…

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Bing’s AI redesign shoves the usual list of search results to the side

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Bing’s AI redesign shoves the usual list of search results to the side Illustration: The VergeBing’s new search experience puts AI-generated answers front and center while pushing traditional search results to the side. The new layout, which is rolling out for a small number of queries, fills your search results page with AI-generated summaries addressing various aspects of your question. Microsoft has shared an ea…

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