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🤷♂️ AI will kill unnecessary jobs, says OpenAI CTO
🤔 AI companies are still scraping websites despite protocols meant to block them
🍎 Apple delays launch of AI-powered features in Europe, blaming EU rules
📚 Court ruling forces Internet Archive to remove 500,000 books
🎁 + 5 other news you might like
🔮 + 2 handpicked research papers and tools
🤷♂️ AI will kill unnecessary jobs, says OpenAI CTOLINK
OpenAI CTO Mira Murati stated that some creative jobs may disappear due to AI, but she believes these jobs might not have been necessary if their output was not of high quality.
Murati emphasized the potential of AI as a tool for enhancing education and creativity, which she believes will expand human intelligence.
This perspective has sparked criticism, with some arguing that OpenAI's approach to AI development undermines the value of human creativity and could harm creative professionals.
🤔 AI companies are still scraping websites despite protocols meant to block themLINK
Multiple AI companies are bypassing a widely-used web standard to scrape publisher content for generative AI systems, according to content licensing startup TollBit.
TollBit's letter, which mentions a dispute between AI startup Perplexity and Forbes, indicates numerous AI agents are ignoring the robots.txt protocol to obtain site content.
The News Media Alliance warned that disregarding "do not crawl" signals threatens the ability of publishers to monetize content and sustain journalism, which could severely impact the industry.
🍎 Apple delays launch of AI-powered features in Europe, blaming EU rulesLINK
Apple may delay introducing Apple Intelligence AI tools, iPhone mirroring, and SharePlay screen sharing in the European Union this year because of the Digital Markets Act (DMA).
The DMA sets strict rules for "gatekeepers" like Apple to prevent anticompetitive behavior, which Apple says could force compromises on user privacy and data security.
Apple is working with the European Commission to find a solution that allows the safe rollout of these features, despite the regulatory uncertainties posed by the DMA.
📚 Court ruling forces Internet Archive to remove 500,000 booksLINK
The Internet Archive had to remove 500,000 books due to a successful lawsuit by book publishers, impacting its effort to provide free online access to numerous titles.
As a result of the abrupt takedown, many readers who relied on the Internet Archive for difficult-to-access books faced a significant "loss," according to a blog post by the organization.
The Internet Archive is appealing the court's decision, arguing that its controlled digital lending should be considered fair use under copyright law and does not harm the e-book market.
Other news you might like
OpenAI’s first acquisition is an enterprise data startup.LINK
Starliner’s return to Earth delayed again, until next month.LINK
Apple fixes Vision Pro bug allowing websites to flood user's space with virtual objects.LINK
The fight over Fisker’s assets is already heating up.LINK
Car dealerships face muli-day outage after CDK cyberattacks.LINK
Latest research and tools
NTS (New Typesetting System): a Java-based reimplementation of Donald Knuth's TeX that compiles source code into documents, compatible up to Java 16, with no further development since 2001, requiring external TeX formats for full functionality.LINK
Q*: Improving Multi-Step Reasoning for LLMs with Deliberative Planning: the paper demonstrates how incorporating deliberative planning enhances large language models' ability to perform complex multi-step reasoning tasks.LINK
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