Perplexity AI Under Fire for Unauthorized Use of Content

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In today’s edition:

• Perplexity AI Under Fire for Unauthorized Use of Content
• YouTube Introduces Labels to Enhance Transparency in AI-Generated Content
• Google Unveils AI Features to Streamline Your Online Shopping Experience
• Microsoft Launches Copilot in OneDrive for Commercial Users
• And more AI news….

1. Perplexity AI Under Fire for Unauthorized Use of Content

The Gist: The New York Times has issued a cease and desist letter to AI search engine Perplexity, accusing it of using its content without permission. Perplexity argues that it does not scrape data for AI training and claims that facts cannot be copyrighted, asserting its right to index and surface information.

Key Details:

• The New York Times claims Perplexity has benefited from its journalism without a license, intensifying its ongoing legal battles over content use with OpenAI and Microsoft.
• Perplexity maintains it does not train models on The Times’s content, emphasizing its role in indexing web pages to provide factual information.
• The startup plans to respond to The Times’ letter by the October 30th deadline, expressing a desire to collaborate with publishers.
• After facing plagiarism allegations, Perplexity has begun partnerships with other media outlets to share ad revenue and provide subscriptions.

2. YouTube Introduces Labels to Enhance Transparency in AI-Generated Content

The Gist: YouTube is launching labels to indicate whether videos are authentic or digitally altered using AI. While this initiative aims to enhance transparency, its implementation is limited to specific devices and tools for now.

Key Details:

• The new labels inform viewers about the authenticity of videos, showing whether they were captured with a real camera or modified through AI.
• The first video featuring this label was uploaded by Truepic, showcasing the use of its secure capture camera technology.
• The C2PA verification system, which powers these labels, requires specific cameras and software to function, limiting widespread adoption in the short term.
• Other platforms, like TikTok, are also adopting similar measures to label AI-generated content, reflecting a broader industry trend toward transparency.

3. Google Unveils AI Features to Streamline Your Online Shopping Experience

The Gist: Google Shopping is integrating artificial intelligence to enhance the online shopping experience, making it easier to find relevant products and track prices. While these new features aim to assist consumers, they also raise concerns about privacy and spending habits.

Key Details:

• The update includes an AI brief summarizing important factors to consider when searching for products, along with categorized results and virtual try-on options using augmented reality.
• Google Shopping now offers personalized tools for price comparison, insights, and tracking, plus a deals page tailored to individual preferences.
• Users can customize their personalized feeds, although Google acknowledges that the AI tools are still experimental and may not always be accurate.
• The new features will begin rolling out across the U.S. over the coming weeks, with no current information on international availability.

Quick Gist

• Microsoft launched Copilot in OneDrive for commercial users, introducing AI tools for summarization, document comparison, and content creation to enhance productivity (Read More).
• Microsoft introduced Scheduled Prompts for Copilot users in the enterprise, allowing automation of prompts at specified times to enhance productivity (Read More).
• Databricks has expanded its collaboration with AWS to enhance generative AI capabilities using AWS Trainium chips, aimed at optimizing custom model development for customers (Read More).
• Microsoft’s Digital Defense Report 2024 reveals over 600 million cyberattacks daily, highlighting increasing collaboration between cybercriminals and nation-states in using generative AI for espionage and ransomware activities (Read More).
• Google’s Gemini AI upgraded to Imagen 3, enabling users to create detailed, lifelike images and introducing features for resizing and refining generated content (Read More).
• Beacon AI raised $15 million in Series A funding to enhance its AI systems for commercial and defense pilots, aiming to improve flight safety and efficiency (Read More).
• Anthropic has introduced a Responsible Scaling Policy to assess AI risks based on capability levels, hiring for roles in risk management to enhance safety measures as AI technology evolves (Read More).
• OpenAI launched Swarm, an experimental framework for agentic AI that enables multiple AI agents to collaborate and handle tasks interactively using natural language (Read More).
• Google launched Android 15 for Pixel devices, introducing new privacy and security features like Theft Detection Lock and Private Space (Read More).
• Google DeepMind released a paper on Self-Correction via Reinforcement Learning (SCoRe), enhancing LLMs’ self-correcting abilities in math and coding tasks, achieving significant benchmark improvements over previous methods (Read More).

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