Last week, we reported on Drake and The Weeknd beefing with nerds for using their voices to generate music. This week, Claire Boucher, the artist more popularly known as Grimes, encouraged every script kiddie and maker with GarageBand to, “use my voice without penalty,” in AI-generated music. She’ll Pay a 50% Royalty While Universal Music...
On Wednesday, Virgin Galactic’s Eve spacecraft completed a successful glide test returning to Earth safely. The flight test was conducted after Virgin Galactic’s inaugural flight in 2021. The company had grounded its spaceplane to make structural improvements and extend the flight. Since then, the company lost half a billion dollars because it had not flown...
Normally, cellphones aren’t able to connect directly to satellites. Usually cellphones connect to cell towers and relay their signals between towers. AT&T, Vodaphone, and Rakuten have teamed to connect a call from Midland, Texas to Japan. An ordinary Samsung Galaxy S22 and an iPhone were used for placing the call. This is notable because NO...
I really tried to make this headline click-baity, but I think I failed. We reported on the Cambridge Analytica scandal before my time here at theSync Weekly. If you don’t remember, Cambridge Analytica paid Facebook for tens of millions of accounts of user data on behalf of the Trump Campaign. The data used for targeted...
The Sony World Photography Awards is the leading international photo contest. The contest has four competition levels (Pro, Open, Student, and Youth). Each competition level is free to enter and the top prize is $25,000. Boris Eldagsen was (is?) this year’s top winner in the Creative Open category showing a photo depicting two women stylized...
Just as YoungGuru started warning music consumers the danger AI poses to their favorite music artists, a script kiddie named @ghostwriter877 goes viral with a generated Drake and TheWeeknd track. What Had Happened Was Last weekend, Drake took to the Gram and proclaimed, “this is the final straw, AI!” He was upset a song used...
Kuwait News, an affiliate of the Kuwait Times, introduced the world to Fedha, an AI news anchor who speaks fluent Arabic and wants to know the kind of news you’re interested in. أول مذيعة في #الكويت تعمل بالذكاء الاصطناعي • #فضة.. مذيعة #كويت_نيوز الافتراضية • ما هي نوعية الأخبار التي تفضلونها بتقديم #فضة زميلتنا الجديدة؟...
Large language models like GPT-4 still need humans to tell it the kind of content it’s being trained on. This process is called labeling. Human beings read content, and give it labels like news article, medical report, jokes, etc. These labels give GPT-4 the ability to understand the type of text someone like you prompts...
The FBI’s Denver Field office tweeted a warning to travelers encouraging them to avoid public smartphone charging ports. Avoid using free charging stations in airports, hotels or shopping centers. Bad actors have figured out ways to use public USB ports to introduce malware and monitoring software onto devices. Carry your own charger and USB cord...
I know theSync’s head honcho, Will Mapp, is a big booster of AI technology, but Elon Musk might be right for once. I’m no luddite, but AI-abuse could lead to a breakdown in society. Only because humans are lazy and are quick to accept shortcuts. We already accept things the computer says as final without...