China Bans ChatGPT

I know what you might be thinking, but ChatGPT wasn’t available in china anyways, true but people were allowed to use ChatGPT wrappers and bots set up on WeChat. So the original ChatGPT site was not available in China but the use of ChatGPT was allowed.

The reason for the ban? Well, Chinese companies like Baidu and Tencent have been working on their own AI system and its safe to say that ChatGPT was external competition from the US (don’t want to get into any politics here). Also since China doesn’t have control on what responses the AI can give, it runs the risk of ChatGPT giving out information that's not pro-china.

So, with ChatGPT now cut off for Chinese consumers, there's an unanswered demand for an equivalent domestic replacement. But with heavy regulatory interventions in the industry over the past two years, Chinese tech companies are in a tough spot. They want to develop as fast as other tech companies in the world, but they also don't want to upset the government. It's a delicate balancing act, and one that's not always easy to navigate.

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German AI startup may have a GPT-4 competitor this year.

There's a new kid on the block in the world of generative AI, and it goes by the name of Aleph Alpha. Sure, they might not have the billions of dollars in funding that Microsoft-backed OpenAI has, but they do have a larger language model with 300bn parameters compared to OpenAI's paltry 175bn. Aleph Alpha's chatbot, Lumi, is built on top of this impressive model, which they use to offer bespoke services to enterprise clients, such as law firms and banks. And unlike OpenAI, Aleph Alpha is not logging any user data, so you can ask Lumi all your burning questions without worrying about Big Brother watching.

As you might have read, their AI will not be available to the public but instead will be used by only enterprise. Seems like they don’t want to deal with the Internet getting their AI to do ‘interesting’ things

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The US Copyright Office says you can’t copyright Midjourney AI-generated images

The US Copyright Office has canceled the copyright protection granted to artist Kristina Kashtanova for the images in her comic book Zarya of the Dawn, which were created by an artificial intelligence image generator called Midjourney. The office determined that the images are "not the product of human authorship," citing previous cases involving non-human spiritual beings and the infamous monkey selfie incident. However, Kashtanova was still recognized as the author of the text and the arrangement of the visual elements. While disappointed, Kashtanova remains optimistic and believes AI-assisted art will eventually be treated like photography.

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Thursday Riddle🎊

I’m sent before I’m ready, I’ll break before you know it and you can’t find me many places. What am I?

Answer will be at the end of the Email

First Prompt, Copy/paste the prompt here: https://pastebin.com/xPMgjiFk

Second Prompt: okay, great! Now, {the prompt}

Copy/paste the prompt here: https://pastebin.com/6EPaECZ5

what a superhero would look like: a jade killer, this is a man, he releases jade crystals from his hands

Answer

A beta release

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