OpenAI Gives ChatGPT Internet Access

Former President Donald Trump recently claimed on Truth Social that he was going to be arrested on Tuesday in Manhattan and urged his supporters to "protest." While this didn't happen, a flood of AI-generated images was created by Midjourney, going viral as an ironic joke

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OpenAI keeps on shipping

OpenAI has launched plugins for ChatGPT that grant it access to third-party knowledge sources and databases, including the web. One of the plugins allows ChatGPT to browse the web to answer various questions posed to it, citing its sources in responses, which allows ChatGPT to draw data from around the web to answer the various questions posed to it. (Previously, ChatGPT’s knowledge was limited to dates, events, and people prior to around September 2021.) The plugin retrieves content from the web using the Bing search API and shows any websites it visited in crafting an answer, citing its sources in ChatGPT’s responses.

The new plugin feature is available in alpha to ChatGPT users and developers on the waitlist, OpenAI says that it’ll initially prioritize a small number of developers and subscribers to its premium ChatGPT Plus plan before rolling out larger-scale and API access.

However, the live web is less filtered and curated than a static training dataset, opening the door to bad actors. OpenAI admits that a web-enabled ChatGPT might perform undesirable behaviors and implemented safeguards to prevent this. Other plugins include a code interpreter and plugins developed by early collaborators from companies like Instacart and Shopify.

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Video of the plugin in action

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Couple gets scammed by AI Voice Cloning

A couple from Houston, Texas was scammed out of $5,000 after thieves used artificial intelligence (AI) to clone their son's voice and tell them he was in trouble. The scammers claimed that their son had hit a pregnant woman in a car accident and needed money to be bailed out of jail. The couple believed the scam and handed over the money, causing the mother to postpone chemotherapy for her cancer treatment. Forensic experts say that cloning someone's voice using AI is becoming common and scammers can obtain the necessary information from public sources like social media and videos. This is part of a growing trend of targeted AI scams on unsuspecting individuals.

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Publishers want to be paid for “training” AI Chatbots

Media executives are considering whether they should be compensated for the use of their content in training AI models such as ChatGPT, Bing, and Google’s recently released conversational program, Bard. The News Media Alliance, a publishing trade group, has organized meetings examining the extent to which content has been used and what legal options are available to publishers.

There is debate as to whether AI companies have the legal right to scrape content off the internet and feed it into their training models. Some publishers are concerned that AI tools could drain traffic and advertising dollars away from their sites. Legislation is being considered that would enable US publishers to negotiate collectively.

What do you think? Should the media be paid?

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Friday Riddlers Riddle

I’m a near-perfect critic. Nothing you code slips past my judgement so watch your syntax. What am I?

Here’s the prompt: https://pastebin.com/UjMTrQgL

Copy/paste the prompt here: https://pastebin.com/84CdVjcH

Copy/paste the prompt here: https://pastebin.com/MWX0q3Uy

Sunshine incense burner purple smoke, distant waterfall hanging in front of the river. Flying down three thousand feet, suspected that the Milky Way fell nine days

Answer

a linter