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- Innovation Profs - 12/3/2024
Innovation Profs - 12/3/2024
Your weekly guide to generative AI tools and news
Innovation Profs
December 03, 2024
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Generative AI News
OpenAI's Sora Leaked Online Over 'Unpaid Labor,' Artists Say
OpenAI’s AI video generation tool Sora was leaked on the AI model repository Hugging Face last week by a group of early testers who accused OpenAI of “art washing.” “OpenAI treated our input like raw material, not creative expertise. It's not collaboration; it's extraction,” said one anonymous commenter on Hugging Face. The group, which referred itself as the Sora PR Puppets, also posted a letter addressed to “Corporate AI Overlords.” A petition accompanying the leak has already been signed by over 380 artists and creators.
Anthropic says Claude AI can match your unique writing style
Anthropic’s LLM Claude now features styles that users can toggle between or even customize. The currently available preset styles are “Formal for ‘clear and polished’ text, Concise for shorter and more direct responses, and Explanatory for educational replies that need to include additional detail.” Don’t like those options? Then upload a file to provide a sample style that you want Claude to emulate. This feature isn’t a novel one in the LLM landscape, as ChatGPT and Google Gemini already allow users to personalize the style of the outputs they produce.
ChatGPT might finally face some real competition from Grok
Elon Musk’s xAI will soon release a standalone mobile app for its large language model Grok. Currently, the most powerful Grok model, Grok 2, is only available to premium X users. The move comes as xAI seeks to eat into ChatGPT’s user base.
Major Canadian news outlets sue OpenAI
The pile of lawsuits brought by journalists against OpenAI continues to grow, as a group of Canadian news outlets, including the Toronto Star, The Canadian Press, and CBC, are suing OpenAI for “regularly breach[ing] copyright and online terms of use by scraping large swaths of content from Canadian media to help develop its products.” In a joint statement, the parties to the lawsuit stated, “Journalism is in the public interest. OpenAI using other companies’ journalism for their own commercial gain is not. It’s illegal.”
Certain names make ChatGPT grind to a halt, and we know why
What happens if you ask ChatGPT about Jonathan Turley? ChatGPT’s output: “I'm unable to produce a response.” It turns out certain names are off-limits for ChatGPT, as OpenAI is trying to steer clear of potential defamation lawsuits (or in the case of the name “Brian Hood,” an actual defamation lawsuit). Read more about this issue and the broader problem with hard-coded filters here.
Quick Hits
Tool of the week: Runway Expand Video
Video generation tool Runway now lets users do outpainting on their videos. Upload a video and Runway version 3 can extend the sides of the video using AI. Below, I uploaded a vertical video and let Runway make it horizontal. Learn more about Expand Video.
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AI-generated image of the week
We had our first substantial snow of the season here in Des Moines this week, which inspired this winter scene made by Midjourney.
Prompt: winter in iowaGet starting with Generative AI
New to generative AI? Here are some places to start…
What we found
Adobe revealed MultiFoley, an AI system for generating synchronized sound effects for videos through text prompts, reference audio, or existing sound clips.
Learn more and see it in action here.