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Publishing News: Week Ending 06/28/2024

June 28, 2024

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HeyGen Raises $60M Series A to Scale Visual Storytelling for Businesses | HeyGen Blog

https://www.heygen.com/article/announcing-our-series-a

“Are websites even needed in the future? Probably not in any form we know them now.

Yesterday, I spoke on the Future of the Internet, changed by AI, organized by Digital Evolution Institute: The Future of AI, Technology, and Venture (link in comments), hosted at Microsoft in Silicon Valley.

I foresee an internet where the most frequent and dominant entities are AI agents, traversing websites, completing tasks, conducting research, and brokering resources on behalf of their human masters.

Over time, websites will offer an API to AI agents, which will be faster than clicking through a site on behalf of a user. When humans decide to visit a website, it should dynamically generate a custom view, using GenAI. Websites as we know them will fade away, a new AI-focused website will be our near-future.”

Are websites even needed in the future? Probably not in any form we know them now.

Yesterday, I spoke on the Future of the Internet, changed by AI, organized by Digital Evolution Institute: The Future of AI, Technology, and Venture (link in comments), hosted at Microsoft in… pic.twitter.com/hxPPpsW6mn
— Jeremiah Owyang (@jowyang) June 26, 2024

“AI is coming to the 2024 Olympics. NBC just announced that an AI model trained on Al Michaels’ voice will narrate personalized Olympic highlight reels. Subscribers can customize 10-minute recaps based on preferred sports, athletes, and content types. Here’s what I think: This

AI is coming to the 2024 Olympics.

NBC just announced that an AI model trained on Al Michaels' voice will narrate personalized Olympic highlight reels.

Subscribers can customize 10-minute recaps based on preferred sports, athletes, and content types.

Here's what I think: This… pic.twitter.com/U0YVogaiyP
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) June 27, 2024

PEACOCK UNVEILS PERSONALIZED OLYMPIC RECAPS FEATURING THE VOICE OF LEGENDARY SPORTS ANNOUNCER AL MICHAELS GENERATED WITH A.I. – NBC Sports

https://www.nbcsports.com/pressbox/press-releases/peacock-unveils-personalized-olympic-recaps-featuring-the-voice-of-legendary-sports-announcer-al-michaels-generated-with-a-i

Strategic Content Partnership with TIME | OpenAI

https://openai.com/index/strategic-content-partnership-with-time

“Yes robots.txt is not law. It’s a negotiated norm from the pre-AI era. Note the next turn of the ratchet is agents operating the website on behalf of user. OpenAI and other firms are heading here. Who’s going to pay for impression linked ads then?” / X

Yes robots.txt is not law. It’s a negotiated norm from the pre-AI era.
Note the next turn of the ratchet is agents operating the website on behalf of user. OpenAI and other firms are heading here.
Who’s going to pay for impression linked ads then? https://t.co/7WdYIh4gPr
— Ate-a-Pi (@8teAPi) June 23, 2024

Instagram is starting to let some creators make AI versions of themselves – The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/27/24187502/instagram-ai-studio-versions-chatbot

Generative AI Can’t Cite Its Sources – The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/06/chatgpt-citations-rag/678796

“This paper shows a GPT-4 powered team of agents can hack websites by finding and exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities They test the system on real-world vulnerabilities that were discovered after training cut-offs and find it performs well.

This paper shows a GPT-4 powered team of agents can hack websites by finding and exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities

They test the system on real-world vulnerabilities that were discovered after training cut-offs and find it performs well. https://t.co/LGmgUNzKB9 pic.twitter.com/0Y61qoirOy
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) June 26, 2024

“Perplexity’s CEO responds to claims they are ignoring robots.txt and crawling websites by saying it’s the vendor they use for crawling that’s does it not them and robots.txt isn’t a law anyway. It’s interesting to watch AI companies break the social contracts the web is built on

Perplexity’s CEO responds to claims they are ignoring robots.txt and crawling websites by saying it’s the vendor they use for crawling that’s does it not them and robots.txt isn’t a law anyway.

It’s interesting to watch AI companies break the social contracts the web is built on pic.twitter.com/HK1WQnLr4G
— Dare Obasanjo🐀 (@Carnage4Life) June 23, 2024

““Perplexity is not ignoring the Robot Exclusions Protocol and then lying about it. (…) We don’t just rely on our own web crawlers, we rely on third-party web crawlers as well.”, said Perplexity cofounder and CEO Aravind Srinivas. Srinivas also noted that the Robot Exclusion” / X

“Perplexity is not ignoring the Robot Exclusions Protocol and then lying about it. (…) We don’t just rely on our own web crawlers, we rely on third-party web crawlers as well.”, said Perplexity cofounder and CEO Aravind Srinivas.

Srinivas also noted that the Robot Exclusion…
— Florent Daudens (@fdaudens) June 27, 2024

Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas on plagiarism accusations – Fast Company

https://www.fastcompany.com/91144894/perplexity-ai-ceo-aravind-srinivas-on-plagiarism-accusations

INMA: GenAI use cases move news publishers towards personalisation

Dow Jones’ risk and compliance division created a product that lets its clients build an investigative due-diligence report from several sources within minutes.
The Washington Post is working on a product that lets its readers interrogate its archives.
Yahoo is using AI to rewrite click-bait headlines if they are misleading or unduly sensational.
The Associated Press is using AI-powered search for its videos, letting clients find individual moments within a video clip, even if they have never been tagged or captioned.
Outside Magazine built a chatbot called Scout to ask specific questions, such as: “Can you recommend a hiking trail in San Francisco under four miles with a view of water?”
Hearst Newspapers created a quiz-generation engine called Emcee.

https://www.inma.org/blogs/Generative-AI-Initiative/post.cfm/genai-use-cases-move-news-publishers-towards-personalisation

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