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How will OpenAI Fend Off Mounting Lawsuits?
Create a big enough lead in the AI race, and you put a target on your back. That’s what OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is realizing as the lawsuits mount against his company.
First, it was the New York Times suing for copyright infringement. Then three more news publishers made a different allegation — that OpenAI bypassed copyright information, like titles and authors’ names, as it regurgitated news stories. Now Elon Musk is getting in on the legal action with a lawsuit that alleges OpenAI’s founders breached a contract from 2015 they signed with Musk.
We saw more lawsuits coming in our predictions for 2024, but there’s another factor here: Could mounting legal claims, in addition to OpenAI’s huge operating costs, slow the barrage of new features, updates, and models we’ve seen from the de facto leader in AI? If OpenAI pauses new releases, these lawsuits may have played a factor.
Elsewhere …
- Anthropic Introduces Next Generation of Claude
- PODCAST: How AI Can Battle Misinformation
- Report: Public Trust in AI Is Sinking Across the Board
- Madonna Is Among the Early Adopters of AI’s Next Wave
- Ads Are Coming to Chatbots
Tips and Tricks
Claude gets vision
What’s happening: Anthropic released a new “family” of models for Claude yesterday, including Sonnet, which is the new default for free users. One new capability for these models, collectively deemed Claude 3, is image recognition.
Why it’s important: When we use AI to help generate content, we usually provide text resources like interviews and notes for the chatbots to ingest. Now Claude can recognize the contents of static images, just like ChatGPT has done for a while.
Try this: If you prefer Claude’s writing style, it’s now easier to add visual resources. Claude can transcribe a photo of handwritten notes and pull text from images like presentation slides. Adding these resources to your prompt can give Claude more context to work with. The image recognition, paired with what Anthropic claims are advanced reasoning skills in Claude 3, should elevate the quality of Claude’s responses.
Quote of the Week
“She asked me, ‘Can you just use one of those AI tools to make the picture more crisp, to make sure it looks current and looks high resolution?’ She loves when you bring in new technology and new kinds of visual elements.”
— Sasha Kasiuha, Content Director for Madonna’s Celebration Tour, to the Associated Press on how Madonna envisioned using AI