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News: AI products flagged as unsafe for kids
Jack Shields
November 17, 2023
Happy Friday!
We’re capping off another eventful week in AI with surprising news from YouTube and new concerns that AI products are unsafe for children.
Let’s get right to it.
In today’s Daily Update:
🗞️ Common Sense Media flags several AI products as unsafe for kids
🤖 Create AI art with Adobe Firefly
📸 YouTube tests AI tool that clones artists’ voices
🚨 AI Roundup: Four quick hits
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TOP STORY
🗞️ Common Sense Media flags several AI products as unsafe for kids
Source: Adobe Firefly
An independent review by Common Sense Media found that many popular AI tools may not be safe for kids.
What you should know:
Common Sense Media assessed products across several AI principles, including trust, safety, privacy, transparency, learning and fairness.
Generative AI products like Snapchat’s My AI, DALL-E and Stable Diffusion scored poorly.
AI chatbots like Bard and ChatGPT scored moderately well, but were prone to producing inaccurate information and bias.
The only products that scored highly were AI tutors developed by Ello, Khan Academy and Kyron Learning.
The relevance: AI product ratings were long overdue. A recent poll from Common Sense Media and Impact Research found that 82% of parents wanted help evaluating whether AI products were safe for their kids, but only 40% knew of reliable resources that could help them assess AI’s appropriateness for children.
AI TOOL OF THE DAY
🤖 Create AI art with Adobe Firefly
Source: Adobe Firefly
Want to create AI images like the ones featured in this newsletter? Here’s how to get the best results from Adobe’s free Firefly image generator:
Step 1: Write a simple text prompt (“a dog running through the woods”).
Step 2: Refine your prompt with specific details (“waterfall in the background, sunrise”).
Step 3: Choose content type (photo or art).
Optional: Try out different lighting, compositions, colors and tones.
The full prompt: “A photo of a dog running through the woods, waterfall in the background, sunrise.”
BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT
📸 YouTube tests AI tool that clones artists’ voices
Source: Adobe Firefly
YouTube just revealed an AI tool called Dream Track that lets users clone the voices of popular artists.
The details:
Nine artists have licensed their voices to YouTube, including Charli XCX, Charlie Puth, T-Pain and Sia.
About 100 creators have been given access to the tool, which can currently only be used to soundtrack videos on YouTube Shorts.
Dream Track creates short songs from text prompts that describe lyrical content and mood (ex. “A ballad about how opposites attract, upbeat acoustic”).
YouTube hopes that the tool will create deeper connections between artists, creators and fans.
Switching Up: This move comes just after YouTube announced labels for AI-generated content. The company also said it would allow users to request the removal of videos that use AI to simulate an identifiable person, and previously expressed concerns over AI music hosted on its platform.
MORE TRENDING NEWS
🚨 AI Roundup: Four quick hits
Source: Adobe Firefly
Futuristic Football: Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the NFL create an AI-powered game called “Playbook Pass Rush.”
Lost Love: AI-generated women steal thousands of dollars from men in dating app and social media scams.
Automated Animation: Meta debuts an AI tool that can generate four-second animated clips.
Synthetic Socials: Meta teases new AI-powered editing tools for Facebook and Instagram.
THAT’S ALL FOR THIS WEEK