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📱 The Last Days of Traditional Web Search

Plus: Anthropic and Runway accused of Content Scraping

August 01, 2024

Hello AI Enthusiast,

AI-powered search has become a battleground for big tech companies. They're racing to shape how we'll find information online, and no one knows exactly what online search will look like yet. At the same time, AI companies keep facing accusations of using web content without permission to train their models. So, here's the question: How can we balance pushing AI innovation forward while respecting the rights of content creators?

Companies and their Managers need to understand how AI might disrupt their industries, affect content strategies, and raise new ethical questions. Our training prepares teams to make informed decisions in this AI-driven landscape, turning challenges into opportunities for innovation.

The Big Picture 🔊

OpenAI's New SearchGPT Prototype

OpenAI is testing SearchGPT, an AI-powered search tool that combines real-time web information with conversational AI to deliver quick answers with clear source links from trusted publishers. Interested users can join the waitlist, and the best features will eventually be integrated into ChatGPT.

Gianluca Mauro
Gianluca MauroCEO and AI Rockstar

OpenAI's SearchGPT raises many questions about the future of web search. Will independent creators be featured? What criteria will OpenAI use to select displayed results?

The business model also sparks curiosity. Will publishers only receive upfront payments? Will users be directed to external sites? This shows how AI search is still evolving, and we don't know yet what it will look like.

Gianluca shared more details about his take on TikTok. 🤳

@gianluca.mauro

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Microsoft has introduced Bing generative search, a new AI-powered feature that provides summarized answers to search queries based on information aggregated from the web. Currently available to a limited number of users, this move mirrors Google's AI Overviews and aims to enhance the search experience

Andrea Mattiello
Andrea MattielloCM and Outdoor Fanatic

The detailed summaries it provides could mean fewer people click on actual websites, similar to what happened with Google's AI quick answers. Website owners and content creators might worry about staying visible.

As other competitors like Perplexity and OpenAI enter the market, it's tricky for traditional search engines to balance making things easy for users while also getting paid by customers who want their results ranked high in searches.

Anthropic and Runway accused of Content Scraping

Anthropic and Runway are facing accusations of bypassing anti-scraping protocols and using unauthorized content for training their models. Anthropic allegedly ignored website policies while Runway reportedly scraped thousands of YouTube videos and pirated movies.

Gioele Mottarlini
Gioele MottarliniCOO and Image Addict

When AI companies use content without permission, those affected either go to court or turn to big publishers to accuse these companies. We've covered similar news for the last months, but nothing's really worked.

This isn't a new problem, when you put something on the internet, it's always been hard to control its use. The difference now is that this content is being used to train AI, which is a new way of using it.

How should we handle AI companies using online content?

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Bits and Bobs 🗞️

  • Gemini has upgraded its free version to 1.5 Flash, offering faster responses, larger context windows, and improved response quality.

  • Apple has introduced a new open-source AI model with 7 billion parameters, outperforming similar-sized models from Meta and Google.

  • Mistral has launched its new flagship AI model, Large 2, which competes with OpenAI and Meta.

  • OpenAI is finally rolling out advanced Voice Mode to a small group of ChatGPT Plus users.

  • Airtable has launched Cobuilder, an AI tool that lets its users create customizable apps from text.

  • Stability AI introduced Stable Video 4D, a network that combines 3D and time dimensions to generate dynamically moving 3D objects.

  • Meta has launched AI Studio in the US, allowing users to create customizable AI characters using Llama 3.1.

  • OpenAI introduces an experimental GPT-4o model that supports up to 64K output tokens per request, aimed at exploring new use cases with longer completions.

  • Google's DeepMind AI systems, AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry 2, scored a silver medal-level score in the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad.

  • Apple has joined other tech giants like OpenAI and Microsoft in adopting voluntary AI safeguards initiated by the Biden administration.

Tribal News🫂

A few days ago, we expanded our AI Coaches squad by welcoming Francisca, a new AI Coach at AI Academy. She completed an outstanding project in our last edition and showed great commitment to helping others. Our AI Coaches are exceptional former students who assist Bootcamp participants, and we are very proud of their fantastic work!

LOLgorithms 😂

The phone number of Zuckerberg’s style coach, please.

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