Innovation Profs - 8/6/2024

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Innovation Profs
August 06, 2024

Generative AI News - Quick Hits

Websites are Blocking the Wrong AI Scrapers (Because AI Companies Keep Making New Ones)

Hundreds of sites have put old Anthropic scrapers on their blocklist, while leaving a new one unblocked.

www.404media.co/websites-are-blocking-the-wrong-ai-scrapers-because-ai-companies-keep-making-new-ones

OpenAI says it’s taking a ‘deliberate approach’ to releasing tools that can detect writing from ChatGPT | TechCrunch

OpenAI has built a tool that could potentially catch students who cheat by asking ChatGPT to write their assignments — but according to The Wall Street

techcrunch.com/2024/08/04/openai-says-its-taking-a-deliberate-approach-to-releasing-tools-that-can-detect-writing-from-chatgpt

Elon Musk calls Grok 'the most powerful AI by every metric' but 'secretly' trains the new model with your X data by default

X's new experience is automatically set to opt-in and uses your data to train its Grok AI model.

www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/twitter/elon-musk-grok-ai-secretly-trains-with-your-x-data

Meta courts celebs like Awkwafina to voice AI assistants ahead of Meta Connect

Awkwafina and Keegan-Michael Key are apparently also in talks.

www.theverge.com/2024/8/3/24212580/meta-ai-voice-assistant-celebrity-voices-judi-dench-awkwafina-keegan-michael-key

Instagram creators can now make AI doppelgangers to chat with their followers

Meta is starting to roll out its AI Studio, a set of tools that will allow Instagram creators to make an AI persona that can answer questions and chat with their followers and fans on their behalf.

www.engadget.com/instagram-creators-can-now-make-ai-doppelgangers-to-chat-with-their-followers-220052768.html

Midjourney drops surprise v6.1 update — now humans look more real than ever

Better looking skin

www.tomsguide.com/ai/ai-image-video/midjourney-drops-surprise-v61-update-now-humans-look-more-real-than-ever

Tool of the week: SAM 2

Meta’s new Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2) can create video cutouts and effects with a few clicks. More specifically, it is able to track objects in real-time and could make complex video editing tasks like object removal simple. Try the demo here.

AI-generated image of the week

You may not be competing in the Paris Olympics, but we at Innovation Profs thought you deserved a gold medal for your dedication to reading this newsletter. Apparently we put holes in it to save on gold.

prompt: an athlete getting an olympic gold medal that says "INNOVATION PROFS" put around their neck

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Eureka Labs is a new startup in the education space that will use AI teaching assistants to supplement human-led courses. The first course, which is not ready yet, will be an undergraduate-level course that guides students through training their own AI. Learn more about Eureka Labs.