Have we reached peak ChatGPT?

Reuters is reporting that ChatGPT's explosive growth is showing its first decline in traffic since launch. Many factors can be at play here: from increased competition to students being on summer break, to the launch of the separate ChatGPT iOS app. Either way, it’s a data point that perhaps point to a saturation point to how far AI can go (at least for now).

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-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

Authors sue OpenAI, allege ChatGPT was trained on their books (CNBC)

Grammys CEO on new AI guidelines: Music that contains AI-created elements is eligible. 'Period.' | AP News

Generative AI in Games Will Create a Copyright Crisis (WIRED)

New York employers must now tell applicants when they encounter AI (CBS News)

Introducing Superalignment - We need scientific and technical breakthroughs to steer and control AI systems much smarter than us. (openai.com)

SoftBank Spent $140 Billion on AI With Little to Show. Now It Is Trying Again. (WSJ)

Celebrities Use AI to Take Control of Their Own Images (WSJ)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

How Coders Can Survive—and Thrive—in a ChatGPT World (IEEE Spectrum)

The Golden Age of Open Source in AI Is Coming to an End (Towards Data Science)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

Livegrep is a tool, partially inspired by Google Code Search, for interactive regex search of ~gigabyte-scale source repositories. (Github)

paul-gauthier/aider: aider is GPT powered coding in your terminal (Github)

PiotrNawrot/nanoT5: Fast & Simple repository for pre-training and fine-tuning T5-style models (Github)

databrickslabs/pyspark-ai: English SDK for Apache Spark (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

Personality Traits in Large Language Models (arxiv)

Filtered-Guided Diffusion: Fast Filter Guidance for Black-Box Diffusion Models (arxiv)

Stay on topic with Classifier-Free Guidance (arxiv)

Detect Any Deepfakes: Segment Anything Meets Face Forgery Detection and Localization (arxiv)

Let's Do a Thought Experiment: Using Counterfactuals to Improve Moral Reasoning (arxiv)

xymsh/GraMMaR: The official repo for "GraMMaR: Ground-aware Motion Model for 3D Human Motion Reconstruction" (github.com)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Instagram’s Threads app is available now for iPhone and Android (The Verge)

The Damaging Results of The Mandated Return to Office is Worse Than We Thought (Entrepreneur)

The billion-dollar search for immortality (UnHerd)

It’s Not Just You: Many People Confront Health Insurance Obstacles on Care and Bills (The New York Times)

Explainer: How Extreme Heat, Humidity, High Wet Bulb Temperatures Kill People (Bloomberg)

‘You reach a point where you can’t live your life’: what is behind extreme hoarding? Housing (The Guardian)

YouTube tests disabling videos for people using ad blockers (The Verge)

One Last Bite 😋

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