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Gen Z thinks they’ve figured out a dead giveaway that someone has used ChatGPT — and it might surprise you. The em dash (—) is punctuation loved by writers everywhere, functioning like a comma, colon or a pair of parentheses. It can be used to sum up information at the end of a sentence, encase supplementary information within a sentence, emphasize a point or expand upon something that comes before it, according to Merriam-Webster. But according to Gen Z, the dash is actually a so-called “ChatGPT hyphen.” The phenomenon started gaining attention online after podcasters Daisy Reed and Sapna Rao,...

Several collections of example clips from the latest version 3 of Google’s Veo text-to-video generator, which now includes synced audio as well. Big improvement over the previous Veo 2—basically looks like normal YouTube or Hollywood-produced content to the casual eye. All this content was 100% made using prompts. Things are going to get weird folks. These first two are meta-satire with the “people” in the gen questioning why they were created by a prompt and/or trapped. Clever and amusing. Video series 1Video series 2This one is all social media influencers reacting to the end of the world. Video series 3Bunch...

…Students outsourcing their assignments to AI and cheating their way through college has become so rampant, so quickly, that it has created a market for a product that helps professors ChatGPT-proof school. As it turns out, that product already exists. In fact, you’ve probably used it. You might even dread it. It’s called a blue book. … All of which explains how a paper company in Pennsylvania has unexpectedly found itself on the front lines of the classroom AI wars. Most blue books for sale in campus bookstores and on Amazon for 23 cents apiece are made by Roaring Spring...

Mimicry of intelligence isn't intelligence, and so while AI mimicry is a powerful tool, it isn't intelligent.The mythology of Technology has a special altar for AI, artificial intelligence, which is reverently worshiped as the source of astonishing cost reductions (as human labor is replaced by AI) and the limitless expansion of consumption and profits. AI is the blissful perfection of technology's natural advance to ever greater powers.The consensus holds that the advance of AI will lead to a utopia of essentially limitless control of Nature and a cornucopia of leisure and abundance.If we pull aside the mythology's curtain, we find...

Generative AI “will undoubtedly revolutionize our workforce and enhance Guardian’s ability to operate at speed,” Lisa Costa, Space Force’s chief technology and innovation officer, said in the memo. But Costa also cited concerns over cybersecurity, data handling and procurement requirements, saying that the adoption of AI and LLMs needs to be “responsible.” No further explanations were provided. Experts have flagged a risk that, under some conditions, voluminous and potentially non-public data involved in feeding models with documents and prompts could end up leaking out into the public arena or get hacked in other ways. The memo said Costa planned to...

Generative AI isn’t new, but releases by artificial intelligence developers such as OpenAI and Stable Diffusion in 2022 represent real leaps forward in the availability and usability of generative AI applications — advances so significant that the internet is filled with predictions of doom.Humanity hasn’t ceased to exist in the months since chatbots became super-powered, however, and cooler heads are pondering the implications of these technologies, industry by industry.In order to understand the cybersecurity impact, BizTech convened a roundtable of security leaders — Equifax CISO Jamil Farshchi, Mastercard Chief Security Officer Ron Green and Patricia Titus, CISO of the insurance...

Generative AI, like OpenAI's ChatGPT, could completely revamp how digital content is developed, said Nina Schick, adviser, speaker, and A.I. thought leader told Yahoo Finance Live (video above). "I think we might reach 90% of online content generated by AI by 2025, so this technology is exponential," she said. "I believe that the majority of digital content is going to start to be produced by AI. You see ChatGPT... but there are a whole plethora of other platforms and applications that are coming up." The surge of interest in OpenAI's DALL-E and ChatGPT has facilitated a wide-ranging public discussion about...