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🥟 Chao-Down #277 Google admits it lost control of its image-generating AI, Report claims 60% of OpenAI model's responses contain plagiarism, GM's Cruise plans to resume autonomous robotaxi operations

🥟 Chao-Down #277 Google admits it lost control of its image-generating AI, Report claims 60% of OpenAI model's responses contain plagiarism, GM's Cruise plans to resume autonomous robotaxi operations

Plus, filmmaker and studio owner Tyler Perry raises the alarm on AI and puts his studio expansion on hold.

Tyler Perry, the actor, filmmaker and studio owner, recently expressed concerns about the impact of artificial intelligence on the entertainment industry, especially after seeing the capabilities of OpenAI’s text-to-video model Sora.

OpenAI’s Insanely Powerful Text-to-Video Model ‘Sora’ is Here

Perry said he has put his $800 million expansion of his studio on hold, and he urged the industry to come together to protect the jobs and livelihoods of the people who work in it. He also revealed that he has used AI in two of his upcoming films, but he is worried about the future of his employees and colleagues.

Tyler Perry is calling for a whole industry and government approach to regulate and manage the rapid developments of AI technology. How will the entertainment industry respond?

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

A Vending Machine Error Revealed Secret Face Recognition Tech (WIRED)

Leaked Amazon Documents Warn Employees Not to Use GenAI for Work (Business Insider)

‘Embarrassing and wrong’: Google admits it lost control of image-generating AI | (TechCrunch)

New report: 60% of OpenAI model's responses contain plagiarism (Axios)

GM’s Cruise Prepares to Resume Autonomous Robotaxi Testing After Suspension (Bloomberg)

AI could make the four-day workweek inevitable (BBC)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

Large Language Models for Data Annotation: A Survey (arxiv)

Selling to Carol: Why targeting an ICP brings 10x more customers than you expected (asmartbear.com)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

traceloop/openllmetry-js: Sister project to OpenLLMetry, but in Typescript. Open-source observability for your LLM application, based on OpenTelemetry (Github)

facebookresearch/Pearl: A Production-ready Reinforcement Learning AI Agent Library brought by the Applied Reinforcement Learning team at Meta. (Github)

OpenCodeInterpreter - Integrating Code Generation with Execution and Refinement (link)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

PALO: A Polyglot Large Multimodal Model for 5B People (arxiv)

AgentScope: A Flexible yet Robust Multi-Agent Platform (arxiv)

OmniPred: Language Models as Universal Regressors (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

China Exerts Grip on Tech as Beijing Expands Economy Control (Bloomberg)

EV Startups Rivian and Lucid Struggled to Build Cars. Now the Challenge Is Selling Them. (WSJ)

Mind-reading devices are revealing the brain’s secrets (Nature)

More Young People Are on Multiple Psychiatric Drugs, Study Finds (The New York Times)

Closing iPhone apps doesn't do anything (qz.com)

What are the benefits of snow days? (Vox)