🎶 Spotify removes AI music

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• 🎶 Spotify removes AI Music

• 👋 Meta introduces ImageBind

• 🤖 An AI with…Principles?

• 🤑 AI Fundraising News

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🎶 Spotify removes AI Music

Things have started to heat up ever since Universal Music Group called AI Music “fraudulent” and wanted it banned from all platforms.

By the looks of it, Spotify couldn’t agree more. Reports suggest that the music streaming giant removed tens of thousands of Boomy-generated songs from its platform due to concerns over copyright infringement.

It makes sense - AI music contains copyrighted elements and could result in massive legal issues for the platform, so removing them is in their best interest.

Where do we go from here? While some argue that AI can help democratize music production and bring new voices and perspectives to the industry, others worry that it could lead to a loss of human expression and emotion in artistic works.

For now, AI music is definitely not being accepted by the mainstream media. It will be interesting to see how these feelings change, seeing how some artists like Grimes are ready to embrace AI so long as they are paid appropriately.

P.S. If you are craving some AI music, check out aiHits.co - an AI version of the Billboard Top 100.

Read more: Engadget

👋 Meta introduces ImageBind

Yesterday, Zuck announced ImageBind - an open-source AI model that “combines different senses, just like people do.”

Confused? Dw, I gotchu.

Today, existing AI models like MidJourney and Stable Diffusion are trained to link text and images - you can explain what you want to see in simple terms, and the model will generate the appropriate pictures.

ImageBind takes this a few steps further, working across six types of data inputs:

• Text

• Audio

• Images / Video

• 3D

• Thermal

• Motion Data

ImageBind can receive input in one of the supported data modes and relate to the others. From here, you are only limited by your imagination.

Zuck gave some pretty cool examples of this in action:

• Given a picture of a beach, the system produced sounds from a wave.

• Given a photo of a tiger and the sound of the waterfall, the system can produce a video that combines both, so you can see a tiger walking with a waterfall in the background.

Honestly, pretty cool. And he doesn’t want to stop there. He plans to add more data modes like “touch, speech, smell, and brain fMRI signals,” helping create more “human-centric” AI models in the future.

Wowza 🤯

Read more: Neowin

🤖 An AI with…Principles?

Ever since the release of ChatGPT last year, numerous concerns have popped up regarding chatbots:

1. Inappropriate Content: We have seen many cases where chatbots have gone viral for making outrageous and sometimes unacceptable statements.

2. Bias: Today’s models are being trained on a variety of content - social media, comments, blogs, videos, etc. Each piece of content brings biases, which can sometimes be reflected in chatbot responses.

While companies like OpenAI and Meta use human contractors to provide quality control, the process is hardly scalable and is highly inefficient.

Anthropic, an OG in the AI space, is trying to change this with their Generative AI, “Claude.”

Their aim is simple: To give Claude a “constitution” it can follow so there is no need for a “human in the loop” to provide feedback to the outputs. Think of this as AI trying to keep AI in check—very meta.

Anthropic will guide its model through “10 secret principles” of fairness, sourced from the “UN Declaration of Human Rights, trust and safety best practices, and principles proposed by other AI research labs.”

They believe that this method can provide Pareto improvements in the AI's performance compared to one trained only on human feedback.

Wouldn’t that be interesting…

Read more: Engadget

🤑 AI Fundraising News

UVeye raises $100 million for AI-powered car inspections.

AI detection tool GPTZero raises $3.5 million, led by Uncork Capital.

🗞️ Byte size: AI article summaries

Disclaimer: AI is (partially) used to summarize these articles.

Microsoft 365’s AI-powered Copilot is getting more features and paid access [The Verge] - Microsoft is expanding access to Copilot, an AI-powered assistant based on OpenAI's GPT-4 that brings capabilities across Microsoft 365 apps and services. Microsoft is also introducing new capabilities, like the Semantic Index, that is being rolled out for enterprise customers and will create an intuitive for user and company data. (Read more)

China Arrests ChatGPT User Who Faked Deadly Train Crash Story [Yahoo Finance] - Chinese authorities have arrested a man for spreading fake news through ChatGPT. The man was accused of fabricating an article about a train crash that killed nine people and then posting it on multiple accounts on a blog-like platform. The material was viewed over 15,000 times before being removed. Hong is liable for the "major crime" of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble," an offense punishable by at least five years in prison. (Read more)

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