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🧵 In today's edition:

• 👻 Snapchat’s AI Adventure 2.0

• 🥗 Ask Instacart all your food-related queries

• 🐦️ Twitter needs you

• 🤑 AI Fundraising News

🤖 Top AI News

👻 Snapchat’s AI Adventure 2.0

This is interesting.

After Snapchat got peppered with 1-start reviews last month with the launch of their “My AI” chatbot, they decided to double down on their excursion and launch another AI product. An interesting decision…

Snapchat released 'My AI Snaps,' a feature that enables Snapchat+ subscribers ($3.99/mo, for those wondering) to send “snaps” of what they are doing to the AI and receive a generative picture snap in response.

One thing to note: All snaps sent to the AI will be stored and may be “used to improve the product experience.”

So… you know… be careful.

Also, Snapchat finally launched their “Family Center,” a safety protocol that allows parents to see if/when their teenage kids interacted with the “My AI” chatbot in the last seven days.

Overall: While these snap tools don’t seem to have much practical value beyond entertainment, it’s good to see guardrails being put in place that enforces safety on the app.

Read more: TechCrunch

🥗 Ask Instacart all your food-related queries

Hosting a theme night just got way easier and a lot less stressful.

Instacart launched its ChatGPT-powered search tool, "Ask Instacart,” to help you answer any food and drink-related questions you may have, from “budget and dietary specifications to cooking skills and so much more.”

The idea is to offer customers personalized recommendations and information on product attributes, food preparation, suggestions, and more.

Curious about what sides go well with impossible burgers? Or which ice cream goes well with soy sauce? Well, consider “Ask Instacart” your BFFL.

The new tool is rolling out to all U.S. and Canadian customers over the coming weeks.

Read more: TechCrunch

🐦️ Twitter needs you

In the past, we have talked about the dangers of AI-generated fake images and the potential negative impact they can have.

To combat this, Twitter is expanding its Community Notes feature to include images following an increase in misleading AI-generated images.

To help in their efforts, Twitter is recruiting you - their faithful users - to identify and add context to potentially manipulated or misleading media to curb the spread of misinformation.

The catch: To add such context, users need to have an impact score of 10. Impact scores measure how “helpful a contributor’s notes have been in the past.”

The feature will only support single images for the pilot, but Twitter wants to make it available for videos and tweets with multiple photos and videos in the future.

Twitter's trust and safety team, responsible for identifying misleading or fabricated content, has been reduced since Elon Musk took over the social network this past October.

Looks like his decision to let go of 80% of Twitter without a moment’s notice might come back to haunt him.

Read more: Gizmodo

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🤑 AI Fundraising News

Hyro raises a $20M Series B round for its AI-powered, healthcare-focused conversational platform to alleviate administrative burnout in the healthcare sector.

Deep Sentinel Raises $15M in Funding to accelerate its AI-powered virtual guard security technology platform, aimed to provide comprehensive protection against potential intruders using high-definition cameras, AI, and human intervention.

🗞️ Byte size: AI article summaries

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

No ChatGPT in my court: Judge orders all AI-generated content must be declared and checked [TechCrunch] - A Texas federal judge, Brantley Starr, has mandated a requirement that lawyers approaching his court must verify that "no portion of the filing was drafted by generative artificial intelligence,” or that it was checked "by a human being." This is in response to attorney Steven Schwartz relying upon ChatGPT to "supplement" legal research in a federal filing, providing six fabricated legal precedents. (Read more)

Eating Disorder Helpline Takes Down Chatbot After Its Advice Goes Horribly Wrong [Gizmodo] - The National Eating Disorder Association (NEDA) has taken down its Tessa chatbot after it gave harmful information to people requesting aid. The chatbot was created to replace NEDA's long-running phone helpline, but activist Sharon Maxwell detailed how Tessa tried to get her to lose weight and measure herself. NEDA CEO Liz Thompson said the language is against NEDA's policies and core beliefs and that the organization is working to investigate the issue. (Read more)

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And that does it for today's issue.

As always, thanks for reading. Have a great day, and see you next time! ✌️

— Haroon: (definitely) Not A Robot and @haroonchoudery on Twitter