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Publishing News: Week Ending 07/26/2024

July 26, 2024

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Is This The End? Scripps is Looking for Director of Newsroom AI – https://www.adweek.com/tvspy/is-this-the-end-scripps-is-looking-for-director-of-newsroom-ai/

Get paid or sue? How the news business is combating the threat of AI

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-07-24/how-ai-is-disrupting-the-journalism-industry

“A lot of models were at least partially trained on GPT-4 outputs (against their policy). It is why so many identify as GPT-4 when pushed and tell the same jokes as GPT-4. A subtle effect of this new policy is the next generations of models will have a more Llama-like personality” / X

A lot of models were at least partially trained on GPT-4 outputs (against their policy). It is why so many identify as GPT-4 when pushed and tell the same jokes as GPT-4.

A subtle effect of this new policy is the next generations of models will have a more Llama-like personality https://t.co/vW4EqcQ1MF
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) July 24, 2024

“I have said it before, but marketers need to think about how to advertise directly TO the LLMs. This isn’t SEO, it is something different. Especially as agents with autonomy start to appear” / X

I have said it before, but marketers need to think about how to advertise directly TO the LLMs. This isn’t SEO, it is something different. Especially as agents with autonomy start to appear https://t.co/SangbQcGxp
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) July 26, 2024

“My vision: Over the next few years, AI is going to significantly change the internet in a few ways: 1- AI agents will become the dominant entity, conducting the laborious tasks on the web that we don’t want to do. The info will come to the user, not the user surfing the web.”

My vision: Over the next few years, AI is going to significantly change the internet in a few ways:

1- AI agents will become the dominant entity, conducting the laborious tasks on the web that we don’t want to do. The info will come to the user, not the user surfing the web.… pic.twitter.com/BBsSuSrGGI
— Jeremiah Owyang (@jowyang) July 25, 2024

“The last four customer calls I had all said they heard about Formula Bot from ChatGPT. To be ahead of Microsoft is 🤯

The last four customer calls I had all said they heard about Formula Bot from ChatGPT.

To be ahead of Microsoft is 🤯 pic.twitter.com/nT2yi1chve
— David Bressler 📊 (@bresslertweets) July 24, 2024

Anthropic’s crawler is ignoring websites’ anti-AI scraping policies – The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/25/24205943/anthropic-ai-web-crawler-claudebot-ifixit-scraping-training-data

“We’re testing SearchGPT, a temporary prototype of new AI search features that give you fast and timely answers with clear and relevant sources. We’re launching with a small group of users for feedback and plan to integrate the experience into ChatGPT. “

We’re testing SearchGPT, a temporary prototype of new AI search features that give you fast and timely answers with clear and relevant sources.

We’re launching with a small group of users for feedback and plan to integrate the experience into ChatGPT. https://t.co/dRRnxXVlGh pic.twitter.com/iQpADXmllH
— OpenAI (@OpenAI) July 25, 2024

SearchGPT Is OpenAI’s Direct Assault on Google | WIRED

https://www.wired.com/story/searchgpt-openai-search-engine-generative-ai

SearchGPT is a prototype of new AI search features | OpenAI

https://openai.com/index/searchgpt-prototype

OpenAI announces SearchGPT, its AI-powered search engine – The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/25/24205701/openai-searchgpt-ai-search-engine-google-perplexity-rival

“Rolling out SearchGPT as a heavily caveated ‘prototype’ is smart because it allows OpenAI to dial in a UX that makes both users and publishers happy. Great opportunity for OAI to flex lucrative partnerships with the likes of News Corp and The Atlantic, while putting Bing Maps

Rolling out SearchGPT as a heavily caveated ‘prototype’ is smart because it allows OpenAI to dial in a UX that makes both users and publishers happy.

Great opportunity for OAI to flex lucrative partnerships with the likes of News Corp and The Atlantic, while putting Bing Maps… pic.twitter.com/1wuosDkhsI
— Bilawal Sidhu (@bilawalsidhu) July 25, 2024

“If you think you’re reasonable, you should want AIs to be trained on your writing. They’re going to be trained on something, and if you’re excluded that would bring down the average. (This is a separate question from whether you should get paid for it.)” / X

If you think you're reasonable, you should want AIs to be trained on your writing. They're going to be trained on something, and if you're excluded that would bring down the average.

(This is a separate question from whether you should get paid for it.)
— Paul Graham (@paulg) July 26, 2024

AI paid for by Ads – the gpt-4o mini inflection point

https://batchmon.com/blog/ai-cheaper-than-ads

Gemini gets 1.5 Flash, a new related content feature and more

https://blog.google/products/gemini/google-gemini-new-features-july-2024

Introducing Bing generative search | Bing Search Blog

https://blogs.bing.com/search/July-2024/generativesearch

Reddit now blocks all search engines other than Google

Reddit changes have blocked all search engines except Google amid AI ‘misuse’ [U]

“Gemini has over 1.5M tokens of books I’ve written and seven years of my nightly dream journals and, through our now shared memories, it’s simulating… me

Gemini has over 1.5M tokens of books I've written and seven years of my nightly dream journals

and, through our now shared memories, it's simulating…

me pic.twitter.com/kOvV4m1Sc8
— Zoe (@UltraRareAF) July 25, 2024

Google is updating the Play Store with AI-powered app reviews and curated spaces

https://www.engadget.com/google-is-updating-the-play-store-with-ai-powered-app-reviews-and-curated-spaces-130036843.html

“Aspen Institute’s wake-up call for journalism: Embrace AI or risk obsolescence 📰🤖 “Every new technology comes with risks—it’s how the media industry responds that determines how (or whether) news providers can prevail.” — @Vivian A must-read for all in media, especially with

Aspen Institute's wake-up call for journalism: Embrace AI or risk obsolescence 📰🤖

"Every new technology comes with risks—it's how the media industry responds that determines how (or whether) news providers can prevail." — @Vivian

A must-read for all in media, especially with… pic.twitter.com/YdykrrezkH
— Florent Daudens (@fdaudens) July 25, 2024

Google developing Prompts Gallery for user-generated prompts

https://www.testingcatalog.com/google-developing-prompts-gallery-for-user-generated-prompts

Google’s Gemini AI will be all over the Paris Olympics broadcast – The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/18/24201440/google-paris-2024-olympic-games-ai-gemini-ads-sponsor

The Bookseller – News – Academic authors ‘shocked’ after Taylor & Francis sells access to their research to Microsoft AI

https://www.thebookseller.com/news/academic-authors-shocked-after-taylor–francis-sells-access-to-their-research-to-microsoft-ai

Microsoft is adding AI-powered summaries to Bing search results

https://www.engadget.com/microsoft-is-adding-ai-powered-summaries-to-bing-search-results-203053790.html

“”Intelligence Destruction Cycle” (IDC), a novel framework for understanding the rapid obsolescence and replacement of artificial intelligence models in the current AI research landscape. Drawing inspiration from Schumpeter’s theory of creative destruction, the IDC posits that the” / X

"Intelligence Destruction Cycle" (IDC), a novel framework for understanding the rapid obsolescence and replacement of artificial intelligence models in the current AI research landscape. Drawing inspiration from Schumpeter's theory of creative destruction, the IDC posits that the…
— Far El (@far__el) July 24, 2024

“Your 9-to-5 job is dying. By 2034, it’ll be extinct. That’s Reid Hoffman’s latest prediction – the founder of LinkedIn who predicted the rise of social media in 1997. Here’s what he said next: https://twitter.com/nealtaparia/status/1816133139707945268

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