26th February 2024

Last Tuesday (20th Feb), ChatGPT started providing "unexpected responses" to queries from users. In some cases, it simply repeated the same phrase until it filled the user's screen. OpenAI posted an update the next morning reporting that the issue had been resolved. Source: Gizmodo.

Copyleaks have produced a report following analysis to determine the degree to which AI-generated content is original and free of potential plagiarism. Their investigations found that "nearly 60% of AI-generated content contains some form of plagiarism". Source: Copyleaks

The artist Karla Ortiz has given an interview with Disconnect on the impact of AI generators on the careers of artists. Source: Disconnect

The Guardian has published an article on AI and the American election. Source: The Guardian

Meanwhile, Meta (the company behind Facebook and Instagram) has announced it will form a team to tackle "deceptive articificial intelligence content in the upcoming EU elections in June". Source: BBC

This news follows criticism of Meta for failing to remove an altered video of President Biden earlier this year. Source: Time.

TechRadar features an explanation of Sora, OpenAI's new text to video tool. Source: TechRadar

The Verge reports on the issues of bias with Google's Gemini AI tool. Source: The Verge

Google's statement about Gemini's image generation has been published on their blog. Source: Google.