AI-based social media app launches

Welcome back to The Daily Update — Last week was a slow one in AI, but we’re kicking off the new week with some heavy hitters. Here’s the full lineup:

🗞️ The Latest in AI: Federal judge rules AI-generated art cannot be copyrighted

🤖 AI Tool of the Day: PromeAI — Your AI-powered design assistant

📸 Business Spotlight: AI-based social media platform hits the app store

🚨 AI Roundup: Four quick hits

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🗞️ The Latest in AI: Federal judge rules AI-generated art cannot be copyrighted

United States District Court Judge Beryl A. Howell ruled on Friday that AI-generated artwork can’t be copyrighted. She was presiding over a lawsuit against the US Copyright Office after it refused a copyright to Stephen Thaler.

Key Points:

• Thaler tried to copyright an AI-generated image made with the Creativity Machine algorithm he created.

• The copyright would have listed Creativity Machine as the author of the work and Thaler as the artwork’s owner.

• Judge Howell wrote that “human authorship is a bedrock requirement of copyright.”

• The judge acknowledged that humanity is “approaching new frontiers” in copyright where artists will use AI to create original works.

The bottom line: This ruling will create challenging questions regarding how much human input is necessary to copyright AI-generated art.

🤖 AI Tool of the Day: PromeAI — Your AI-powered design assistant

PromeAI is an incredibly versatile design assistant that can help bring your creative ideas to life. It offers a wide range of features including:

• Sketch Rendering: Turn sketches into 3D models.

• Photo to Sketch: Sketch rendering in reverse.

• Erase & Replace: Exactly what it sounds like. Erase and replace anything in your photos.

• Image Variation: Choose from variations of a single image.

• AI Supermodels: Upgrade your product images with AI-generated models and backgrounds (example above).

• Background Diffusion: Replace an image’s background with a single text prompt.

• Outpainting: Extend an image beyond its original bounds.

• Design Ideas: Explore a vast array of design ideas to find the perfect style for your project.

• Text Effects: The latest way to enhance your text (example below).

• AI Visual Chatbot: An AI assistant that brings your ideas to life.

Click here to try PromeAI. The platform offers a limited free plan and paid plans start at $39 a month.

📸 Business Spotlight: AI-based social media platform hits the app store

Alias Technologies has launched BeFake, a social media app that lets users create make-believe versions of themselves using AI-generated images.

Key Points:

• Alias Technologies is an AI company started by former Machine Zone CEO Kristen Garcia Dumont.

• BeFake allows users to transform themselves by inputting text prompts to generate visuals.

• Users are able to share images from prompts and react to their favorites.

• CEO Kristen Garcia Dumont thinks BeFake is a more authentic form of self-expression than posting real pictures.

Why it matters: Garcia Dumont helped launch two of the most profitable mobile games globally, grossing over $1 billion. This app could lead to the widespread integration of AI into social media.

Click here to learn more.

🚨 AI Roundup: Four quick hits

• Controversy in NYC: Text-to-video platform Runway launches ‘Watch’ AI video sharing as Hollywood strike continues.

• LLMs: The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) drops the biggest open dataset yet for training language models.

• Taking on Tokyo: Top ex-Google researchers launch Sakana AI in Japan. The startup is taking a “swarm” approach of combining multiple smaller AI models.

• Advertising with AI: Big companies are turning to AI-generated ads because they’re so cheap.

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Jack

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