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News: Trump supporters target Black voters with fake images
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In today’s Daily Update:
🗞️ Trump supporters target Black voters with fake AI images
🤖 Anthropic launches Claude 3
📸 Elon Musk sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman
🚨 AI Roundup: Four quick hits
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TOP STORY
🗞️ Trump supporters target Black voters with fake AI images
Source: BBC
Donald Trump’s supporters are creating and sharing AI-generated images of the former president with Black voters according to several news outlets.
What you should know:
BBC Panorama discovered dozens of deepfake images depicting Trump with Black supporters.
There’s no evidence that the images are directly linked to Trump’s campaign.
The co-founder of Black Voters Matter says the images push a “strategic narrative” portraying Trump as popular in the Black community.
Creators say that they never claimed the images were accurate, but many Facebook users seem to believe they are real.
Why it matters: This is the latest incident in a series of misinformation efforts targeting the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Voters should learn how to recognize synthetic media. To spot AI-generated images like these, look for flawless or shiny skin and obscure imperfections like missing fingers.
AI TOOL OF THE DAY
🤖 Anthropic launches Claude 3
Source: Anthropic
Anthropic just launched its Claude 3 family of LLMs, featuring the company’s fastest and most powerful chatbots to date.
Key points:
The new family of models includes Claude 3 Haiku, Claude 3 Sonnet and Claude 3 Opus (ordered from least to most powerful).
Anthropic claims that Opus outperforms OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Google’s Gemini Ultra in reasoning, math and undergraduate and graduate-level knowledge.
Opus can summarize up to 200,000 words (compared to ChatGPT’s 3,000-word limit) and accepts images and documents as inputs.
The new chatbot is available with a Claude Pro subscription at claude.ai. Sonnet is now the default model for free users.
Why it matters: The race to build the world’s most powerful LLM is heating up again. Anthropic has put recent investments from Amazon and Google to good use. Claude 3 Sonnet is twice as fast as Claude 2.1 (previously Anthropic’s best model) with higher intelligence.
BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT
📸 Elon Musk sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman
DALL-E 3
Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman over breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty and unfair business practices.
The details:
Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015 before leaving the company in 2018 due to a conflict of interest with his work at Tesla.
He says OpenAI betrayed its founding agreement as a nonprofit that would develop AI technology for the benefit of humanity.
Musk claims that the company’s new board aims to maximize profits for Microsoft, which owns 49% of OpenAI.
The lawsuit also alleges that OpenAI’s code should be open to the public under its founding agreement.
The bigger picture: Musk’s lawsuit appears to have little merit and is unlikely to succeed in court. Still, OpenAI’s structure has come into question before. The company currently operates as a for-profit subsidiary under the original OpenAI Nonprofit, but critics say that Altman is really running a regular tech company disguised as a nonprofit.
MORE TRENDING NEWS
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DALL-E 3
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says we will eventually use natural language to code.
California authorizes expansion of Waymo’s driverless taxi services.
Madonna uses AI to create concert visuals.
THAT’S ALL FOR TODAY