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Christopher Winders - - Page 7
21
Aug
In an era where artificial intelligence (AI) shapes industries and drives innovation, intellectual property (IP) policies are at the forefront of national security, economic growth, and technological leadership. The recent lawsuits involving authors and digital artists suing tech developers over generative AI technology highlight the complexities and challenges in this field. National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence Executives and academic leaders of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI) […]
14
Aug
Our-Hometown is dedicated to helping local newspaper publishers across the country protect their digital content. As large language models powered by artificial intelligence continue expanding, our publishing clients face mounting threats of unauthorized scraping and reuse of their articles for AI training databases. At Our-Hometown, we’ve implemented multiple technical safeguards to combat this emerging risk. For customer websites we host and manage, Our-Hometown starts by offering comprehensive paywalls or requiring […]
11
Aug
Introduction A report from the London School of Economics, “AI & Journalism: New powers, new responsibilities” provides a comprehensive look at how news organizations around the world are adopting artificial intelligence technologies. The Journalism AI Report was compiled by Charlie Beckett, founding director of Polis, and surveyed over 70 media companies in 32 countries about their use and views on AI. It found that while AI is already deeply embedded […]
27
Jul
We recently released a video commentary on the presentation “The AI Dilemma,” being given by Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin on some of the possible negative impacts of the rapid deployment of generative AI tools. They are two of the co-founders of the Center for Humane Technology, a tech watchdog group that raised alarms about social media and its impact on society. They are also the hosts of the podcast […]
24
Jul
In the ever-evolving digital landscape, the role of artificial intelligence (AI) has become a topic of intense discussion and scrutiny. This video commentary delves into this complex issue, offering a unique perspective on the potential dangers of AI, particularly in relation to the effects of social media.
21
Jul
In this live webinar replay Matt and Christopher discuss Reverse Publishing and its benefits for publishers as well as the efficiency gains of using AI generated content and images. The demonstration includes the AI Engine plugin for WordPress and how to create an article from a prompt, how to steer the AI and finally generating a featured image for the article.
17
Jul
What types of datasets are used to train LLMs? This post provides a brief summary of several corpora used for training Large Language Models (LLMs), categorized into six groups: Books, CommonCrawl, Reddit links, Wikipedia, Code, and others. The original paper, “A Survey of Large Language Models,” can be found here. Books: This category includes BookCorpus, consisting of over 11,000 books of various topics and genres, and Project Gutenberg, which contains […]
10
Jul
In our latest podcast, the Our-Hometown team shares their insights on an episode by ColdFusion on the Dead Internet Theory, a concept suggesting most internet activity is the work of bots. They believe this issue, driven by profit and occasional geopolitical interference, is a significant challenge we need to address.
30
Jun
In this live webinar replay Matt and Christopher discuss AI image creation tools, Dall-E, Adobe Firefly, and Stable Diffusion. The lay out how news publisher might uses these tools and Christopher demonstrates how the tools work and specifically how Adobe is integrating AI tools into the latest version of Photoshop. They also cover Content Credentials for protecting image content and how it is implemented in Photoshop. A short demo of […]
26
Jun
In this video, the OHT team provides commentary on an interview between Lex Fridman and Sam Altman, the founder of OpenAI. They discuss various topics related to ChatGPT and the personalization of models. They explore the idea of feedback mechanisms and the potential for users to report, upvote, or downvote responses. They also touch on the democratization of the alignment process and the importance of keeping alignment ahead of the […]