🥟 Chao-Down #121 ChatGPT shows first decline in growth, Grammys CEO says AI-music is eligible for awards, New York employers must now disclose the use of AI in hiring

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).

Watch my breakdown here:

-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 😋