Jesse Clark and Tom Hamer
Accelerator

4 Australian startups –  Contact Harald, Marqo, Relevance AI, Splash Music – make the cut for Amazon’s global Generative AI Accelerator

- September 13, 2024 3 MIN READ

Four Australian artificial intelligence-based startups will feature among 80 globally in the second AWS Global Generative AI Accelerator program. Contact Harald, Marqo, Relevance AI, and Splash Music were selected for the program and score up to US$1 million each in AWS credits, mentorship, and education to accelerate AI innovation with AWS. They’ll also get the chance… Read more »

Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin
AI/Machine Learning

Elon Musk’s AI generator, Grok, is lacking filters, so nudity and political deepfakes are running amok on X

- August 16, 2024 3 MIN READ

Note: This article contains images generated by artificial intelligence. Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI has released Grok-2, the latest version of its Grok artificial intelligence chatbot, which can now generate images with what appears to be very few guardrails to prevent potential abuse. Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini, which are only available to subscribers of Musk’s social… Read more »

AI/Machine Learning

Record companies are suing music apps for copying classic songs in a legal battle that will shape the future of generative AI

- July 3, 2024 3 MIN READ

Last month, several major record labels filed copyright infringement lawsuits in US courts against the makers of two generative AI music apps, Suno and Udio. The labels allege the AI companies have engaged in copyright infringement by copying many sound recordings belonging to the record labels, and producing outputs very similar to those recordings. The… Read more »

shrimp Jesus
Social Media

Dead internet theory: what is it, why it matters and what it says about how we see the world online

- May 23, 2024 4 MIN READ

If you search “shrimp Jesus” on Facebook, you might encounter dozens of images of artificial intelligence (AI) generated crustaceans meshed in various forms with a stereotypical image of Jesus Christ. Some of these hyper-realistic images have garnered more than 20,000 likes and comments. So what exactly is going on here? The “dead internet theory” has… Read more »

Leonardo.Ai Jachin Bhasme, JJ Fiasson, Chris Gillis
AI/Machine Learning

Generative AI startup Leonardo is being used to make deepfake celebrity porn

- April 10, 2024 2 MIN READ

The text-to-image generator developed by Sydney startup Leonardo Ai has been used to create deepfake porn of celebrities. Journalist Emanuel Maiberg at US tech news website 404 Media reported that they had used prompt suggestions for Leonardo found on Reddit “and was able to produce nonconsensual sexual images of celebrities instantly”. He found a Telegram community… Read more »

The Treachery of Images, by Rene Magritte (1929)
AI/Machine Learning

The Artist Strikes Back: How creative people are using ‘data poisoning’ to fight generative AI

- December 19, 2023 3 MIN READ

Imagine this. You need an image of a balloon for a work presentation and turn to a text-to-image generator, like Midjourney or DALL-E, to create a suitable image. You enter the prompt: “red balloon against a blue sky” but the generator returns an image of an egg instead. You try again but this time, the… Read more »

Leonardo.AI
Funding

Blackbird backs generative AI startup Leonardo.Ai in $47 million raise

- December 7, 2023 2 MIN READ

A generative AI content production platform that has created more than 700 million images, and trained more than 470,000 custom generative AI models, since launching a year ago has raised $47 million, The next level version of OpenAi’s DALL-E, Leonardo.Ai was backed by Blackbird, Side Stage Ventures, Smash Capital, TIRTA Ventures, Gaorong Capital and Samsung… Read more »

Grok, AI
AI/Machine Learning

What the Grok! Elon Musk’s new AI tool is sarcastic and potty-mouthed – so who’s it for?

- November 17, 2023 4 MIN READ

On November 4, X owner Elon Musk unveiled his new AI chatbot Grok: a sarcastic ChatGPT alternative supposedly “modelled” after The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, one of Musk’s favourite books. The verb Grok means “to understand intuitively or by empathy, to establish rapport with”. Science-fiction writer Robert Heinlein first coined the term, which is… Read more »

TikTok
AI/Machine Learning

We asked ChatGPT to write a story about the rebranding of a fintech people confuse with a Chinese social media site – so it made up fake names for the CEO

- November 14, 2023 4 MIN READ

First up, the TL:DR version.  Adelaide fintech Tic:Toc has rebranded as Tiimely, six years after the home lending assessment platform launched. You can guess why. The ByteDance social media video platform with the same name (but different spelling) now has 1.5 billion users, having launched in 2016, several months before Tic:Toc. That leaves the local… Read more »

Sam Kerr, AI
AI/Machine Learning

A newspaper created an AI version of Sam Kerr holding a trophy and it’s a lesson in why humans still matter

- September 28, 2023 2 MIN READ

Nine newspaper The Australian Financial Review celebrates a bunch of people in its annual “Power” issue of the AFR Magazine tomorrow. Among them is Matildas captain Sam Kerr as the top of the ladder when it comes to people “who made the biggest mark on culture this year” as “arguably Australia’s most successful sportsperson on… Read more »

AI
AI/Machine Learning

Google and Microsoft are adding AI to their most popular apps, which is a big win for all of us – and especially cybercriminals

- March 22, 2023 4 MIN READ

Google and Microsoft are on a mission to remove the drudgery from computing, by bringing next-generation AI tools as add-ons to existing services. On March 16, Microsoft announced an AI-powered system called Copilot will soon be introduced to its 365 suite apps including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams. The news came about two days… Read more »

Operation, AI, doctors
AI/Machine Learning

An artificial intelligence ethics expert says Generative AI needs more rules on risk in health and medtech to prevent disasters

- March 16, 2023 4 MIN READ

A new study published in The Lancet by artificial intelligence ethicist Dr Stefan Harrer has argued for a strong and comprehensive ethical framework around the use, design, and governance of generative AI applications in healthcare and medicine, because it has the potential to go catastrophically wrong. The peer-reviewed study details how Large Language Models (LLMs) have… Read more »

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