AI’s trained on AI content go MAD, is Threads a loss leader for AI data? – Cointelegraph Magazine

ChatGPT eats cannibals

• Google searches for “ChatGPT” are down 40% from its peak in April
• Web traffic to OpenAI’s ChatGPT website has decreased by almost 10% in the past month
• Users report that the GPT-4 model seems dumber but faster than before
• One theory is that OpenAI has broken up the model into multiple smaller models trained in specific areas
• Another possibility is AI cannibalism, where AI-generated content is used to train AIs, leading to a negative feedback loop

Is Threads just a loss leader to train AI models?

• Threads, a Twitter clone, may be cannibalizing users from Instagram
• The app collects vast amounts of user data, which can be used to train AI models
• Threads’ primary purpose may be to provide text-based content to train Meta’s AI models

Religious chatbots are fundamentalists

• Chatbots trained on religious texts have been giving controversial advice, such as justifying killing people
• The Indian government has no plans to regulate these chatbots
• There are concerns about miscommunication and misinformation based on religious texts

AI doomers versus AI optimists

• Eliezer Yudkowsky warns that superintelligent AI could kill humans, but the details are unclear
• Marc Andreessen argues that fear-based positions on AI are unscientific
• Bill Gates believes that the risks of AI can be managed and that society has managed through transformative moments before
• Jeremy Howard advocates for open-source development of AI and trust in the overall good of society

OpenAI’s code interpreter

• GPT-4’s new code interpreter allows the AI to generate and run code on demand
• Users have found various use cases for the code interpreter

All killer, no filler AI news

• A study found that artificial intelligence scores in the top 1% for creativity
• Comedian Sarah Silverman and authors Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey are suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright violations
• Microsoft’s AI Copilot for Windows is still under development
• Anthropic’s ChatGPT competitor Claude 2 is now available for free in the UK and US

Video of the week

Indian satellite news channel OTV News introduces its AI news anchor named Lisa