Daily Digest: Hypocrites

PLUS: Youtube warns OpenAI, AI gets tools

April 05, 2024

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PICKS

  1. As AI use picks up steam, we’ll see big companies being hypocrites all the time: NYT will soon offer most articles via automated voice. But who’s behind those voices? No idea and NYT won’t tell us either, as they are suing OpenAI for data theft at the moment.

  2. On the same note, YouTube’s CEO says OpenAI training Sora with its videos would break YouTube’s terms of service. Next Q: Will Google train on them? Yes, it will because it’s in their terms of service.

  3. Tool Use allows these language models to interact with external apps. Tool Use is becoming increasingly important for businesses and AI agents. You don’t want to be the person copy-pasting LLM results. Ideally, they would do stuff on their own. Case in point:

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