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Today we will discuss-

• 📋New bill to ban illegal creation of AI replicas in the U.S.

• 🚫China blocks certain data sources for AI training

• 🤗Google assures legal protection for gen AI users

• 😱13 fantastic AI tools you might not have heard of

All this and more - Let's dive in!

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👩‍🍳What’s cooking in the newsroom?

U.S. Senators introduce bill to ban unauthorized AI replicas of actors, musicians

⚖️News - A group of U.S. Senators have introduced a bipartisan bill aimed at establishing a federal law to keep actors, musicians, and other entertainers safe from people making AI replicas of their faces or voices without their permission.

The Nurture Originals, Foster Art, and Keep Entertainment Safe Act of 2023, or the No Fakes Act, aims to standardize likeness laws at the national level. Basically, the act makes likeness rules the same across the entire country, rather than having different rules in each state.

🤨How does the bill ensure accountability? The bill prohibits the creation of a digital replica without permission from the relevant person or the holder of their rights. These rights would be in effect for an individual's entire life and extend to those who inherit their possessions for 70 years after the person's death.

Moreover, individuals themselves as well as those who inherited their estate or organizations like a record label, can take legal action based on the new rules. The bill also makes it clear that just adding a disclaimer saying ‘the digital replica was unauthorized’ won't be a good enough defense.

🤔Are there any exceptions though? The bill does include an exception that allows digital replicas to be used for parodies, satire, and criticism. The exception also applies to commercial activities such as advertisements, news, documentaries, sports broadcasts, or biographical works.

China's new guidelines include list of sources that cannot be used for training gen AI models

☕ News - China has released security guidelines for companies providing generative artificial intelligence services. These guidelines include a list of blacklisted or prohibited sources that can’t be used for training AI models.

⛔What type of content is prohibited ? The National Information Security Standardization Committee will be conducting security evaluations of all content that will be used in the training of generative Al models that are accessible to the general public. Any content found to contain "over 5% illegal and harmful information" will be added to the list of blacklisted sources.

Here, illegal or harmful information refers to information that promotes acts of violence and terrorism, as well as information that threatens the government-controlled political and economic system, in addition to any information that harms the nation's reputation and disrupts national unity and social stability.

Information removed or censored from the Chinese internet is also prohibited from being used to train AI models.

🧐What's more? The security guidelines further demand that organizations using personal data, including biometric data, to train AI models must obtain consent from individuals and follow the instructions provided to avoid intellectual property violations.

Google promises to protect Generative AI users from copyright lawsuits

♨️News - On Thursday, Google announced that it will protect users of generative artificial intelligence systems within its Google Cloud and Workspace platforms against allegations of copyright violations. Copyright violations are the unauthorized use of copyrighted material, such as books, movies, music, and software. This aligns with similar commitments made by other tech giants, such as Microsoft and Adobe.

Google stated that the new policy will cover software, including its Vertex AI development platform and Duet AI system responsible for generating text and images. However, Google's popular generative AI chatbot -Bard, was not mentioned.

🤷🏻‍♀️Why was this needed? This was necessary due to the increasing number of copyright-related challenges faced by generative AI platforms, which have resulted in a surge of lawsuits against various companies. While individual users have not been targeted yet, the lawsuits have certainly raised concerns.

The company has also mentioned that they won't provide protection if users purposely use the AI-generated content to violate someone else's rights. For example, if they use AI-generated text to create a book that includes passages copied from copyrighted novels with the intention of selling it as their own work.

👩🏼‍💻What else is happening?

• Australian scholars develop cyberattack protection for military robots

• Researchers use AI to read ancient scroll burned by Vesuvius

• Meta is paying celebrities millions for their AI likeness

• While ChatGPT has raised fears of mass layoffs, new jobs are being created to review AI

• Use of AI in healthcare has patients worried about personal data

🎼AI-generated songs

• Botnik's "Bored With This Desire To Get Ripped" is a unique blend of Morrissey's melancholic lyrics and Amazon reviews of a home workout DVD. The humorous juxtaposition of these two elements using AI creates a new layer of depth and creativity, resulting in a song that is both catchy and thought-provoking.

• Hallo Spaceboy is a song by David Bowie who was a master of experimentation and style shifts. Bowie used a computer program called Verbasizer to help him write the lyrics. While the song still bears all the hallmarks of a Bowie classic, with its cosmic imagery and romantic themes, knowing that it was, to some extent, written with the help of AI gives it an added layer of intrigue.

• Deliverance Rides by MetallicAI. This song is popular for its dark and intense AI-generated lyrics that fit the metal musical genre well and sound like they could have been written by a human artist, making it stand out among other songs.

👩🏼‍🚒Discover mind-blowing AI tools

1. CompanyCraft - An AI-powered platform that provides customized business ideas, automated research, and detailed business plans

2. Huxli.ai - A set of specialized tools designed to assist students in their academic writing

3. Devassistant.ai - An AI-powered tool that aims to streamline and automate the software development process

4. Contractiq - An AI-powered platform that enables users to draft contracts quickly and efficiently

5. Spyper - An e-commerce tool that gathers live data from competitor web stores

6. Laketool - AI experimentation platform that allows businesses to access, analyze, and extract insights from their data lakes

7. Jumble Journal - A platform designed to help individuals improve themselves through daily journaling

8. Snapix - An AI-powered photo editing platform that allows users to mark, edit, and share their photos easily

9. Sendforsign - A tool that allows users to create, share, and sign documents safely

10. Trading Literacy - A platform that helps users analyze their trading activity to make better-informed decisions

11. Unakin - A generative AI tool that assists game developers in producing game prototypes more quickly and efficiently

12. Wonder Dynamics - Automatically animates, lights, and composes CG characters into a live-action scene

13. DetangleAI - AI-based tool that simplifies complex legal documents into easy-to-understand summaries

📚AI-based books

• I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream - The story is set in a post-apocalyptic future where an omnipotent and sadistic artificial intelligence called AM (short for "Allied Mastercomputer") has taken control of the world and subjected five humans to endless suffering. Known for its dystopian and dark theme, the story delves into the potential horrors of unchecked technological advancement.

• Queen of Angels by Greg Bear - It is a Sci-fi novel set in the year 2047. The plot revolves around the use of advanced technology in the future which allows for the examination and manipulation of human thoughts and emotions. The book is known for its intricate plot, complex characters, and exploration of the potential consequences of merging human minds with technology.

• All systems red by Martha Wells - The book follows the story of a security android or "SecUnit" that has hacked its own governor module, granting it autonomy. Through the android's journey, the story examines the complexities of autonomy and identity for AI entities, challenging traditional notions of how AI entities should behave or be controlled.