Data Dilemma 🍁🧑‍⚖️

👀 TLDR

In this week’s What’s Appening, we cover the lawsuit brought against OpenAI from major Canadian media companies. The companies, just like the New York Times, want billions, but what does it say about the training of future AI models? We also have news and views on a new AI 3A image generator from World Labs, an AI browser from the company behind Arc, the Death Clock app, and a nifty stat on AI and LinkedIn power-users.

🎬 Our Top Take

🧑‍⚖️📰 AI – Media Lawsuits Show Scale of AI Data Challenges

The traditional print media is in a lot of trouble. The reasons for readership decline are complex, yet with AI, they at least have a tangible target. It’s thus unsurprising to see that a coalition of Canadian media outlets has launched a lawsuit against OpenAI (the New York Times already has a massive lawsuit), claiming it broke the law by using their articles to train ChatGPT. The battle lines are clear: OpenAI says it’s using public data, basically fair game, whereas the media says OpenAI ignored copyright and stole their reporters’ hard work. The coalition wants about $20K per article, meaning the total could run into billions. While this may seem like just another boring legal battle destined to go on forever, getting clarity on how data is used and paid for is crucial for the future of AI. Moreover, AI may also provide a solution to declining media revenues. We have seen big data deals agreed with OpenAI and Condé Nast, so why not the Toronto Star or the Winnipeg Free Press? Solutions may also lie outside the courts. Consider a startup that came on our radar this week, LinkUp, which connects LLMs with premium data in a kind of AI training marketplace. Concepts like these hold the keys to smart AI, where everyone gets a payday. #DataDebacle Read more here.

📲 App of the Week: Death Clock

Oh wow. A bit grim this one. Our App of the Week is Death Clock, an application that predicts when you are going to die. Yet, as you might expect, Death Clock is really a health app that uses AI to make prognoses about your future well-being rather than horrible ones about your death. The AI has been trained on 100s of different life expectancy studies, and it will nudge you toward making better decisions, thereby lengthening the time on the Death Clock. You can download it for free to get a glimpse of what it’s all about, although note that there is a $40 annual subscription for the full program.

🧐 Stat of the Week: 54% AI

📈📉 LinkedIn – Study Suggests Over Half of Long Posts Are AI-Generated

Ah, LinkedIn: A wonderful place to connect with professionals, yet also the place where you’ll be bombarded with boring posts on how someone mastered b2b sales on their lunch break. Anyway, as it turns out, a lot of those long-ass posts on LinkedIn seem to be AI-generated – 54%, according to a study. LinkedIn has embraced AI tools, but it’s been somewhat ambiguous in response to this study, saying it wants LinkedIners to use AI tools for “refinement” but that it will suppress content from those faking it. #LinkedOut Read more here.

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📍 Meanwhile at 3Advance

As the post-Thanksgiving haze clears, we’re diving back in with full focus. This week, it’s all about the grind - dotting i’s, crossing t’s, and fine-tuning three exciting releases that will wrap up our year. We’ll be sharing more about these apps as they clear the AppStore, but perhaps you can help. Want to be one of our early adopters? Two of our (super secret) pending releases are all new. If you click below, we’ll let you know the minute (well, maybe same day) they go live, and you can be the first to try them out. If you find a bug, we’ll buy you a drink. 🍻 Just tell us which combo is most interesting to you:

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