🥟 Chao-Down #67 Reddit looks to cash in on LLM boom, Microsoft develops own AI hardware, People use ChatGPT as a therapist

Platforms that own valuable datasets may soon find another revenue source, licensing them to large language model creators.

Reddit is taking steps to charge companies to access their APIs, which for companies who are building AI models that use this data to train, will incur a real cost.

In particular, Reddit’s data is made up of real human conversations that are regularly updated which make them valuable as training data for chatbots and large language models.

What will this mean for companies like OpenAI who very likely used Reddit as part of their training corpus? Will they face a retroactive bill? And will more platforms begin charging for data access? We’ll have to see to find out.

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

Reddit Wants to Get Paid for Helping to Teach Big A.I. Systems - The New York Times (NYTimes)

Microsoft Readies AI Chip as Machine Learning Costs Surge | (The Information)

AI Therapy Becomes New Use Case for ChatGPT - (Bloomberg)

Sony World Photography Award 2023: Winner refuses award after revealing AI creation | (BBC News)

EU lawmakers call for summit to control 'very powerful' AI | (Reuters)

FTC chair Lina Khan warns AI could 'turbocharge' fraud and scams | (CNN Business)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

Company Building in the Curiosity Phase of AI - (Michael Dempsey: Blog)

Product-led marketing - by Kyle Poyar - (Lenny's Newsletter (lennysnewsletter.com)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

New Adobe Lightroom AI Innovations Empower Everyone to Edit Like a Pro | (Adobe Blog)

linyiLYi/street-fighter-ai: This is an AI agent for Street Fighter II Champion Edition. (Github)

Soundini: Sound-Guided Diffusion for Natural Video Editings (kuai-lab.github.io)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

LLaVA - LLaVA: Large Language and Vision Assistant (llava-vl.github.io)

MiniGPT-4: Enhancing Vision-language Understanding with Advanced Large Language Models (link)

Multimodal C4: An Open, Billion-scale Corpus of Images Interleaved With Text (arxiv)

Instruction Tuning with GPT-4 (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Could Ice Cream Possibly Be Good for You? - (The Atlantic)

Netflix Will End Its DVD Service, 5.2 Billion Discs Later (NYTimes)

Software firms face huge tax bills that threaten tech startup survival (CNBC)

One Last Bite 😋