Google's AI Overviews Tell Users to Eat Rocks

Plus Elon's warning about the future

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Nathaniel Whittemore
May 24, 2024

The AI Breakdown First Five - Friday May 24, 2024

Today on the First Five:

  • 5. Biden Robocall Faker Faces $6M Fine & Prison

  • 4. Google, Meta and OpenAI Are Hollywood Deal-Hunting

  • 3. Elon Warns of Future Where AI Does All the Jobs

  • 2. OpenAI Reverses Course on Nondisparagement

  • 1. Google’s AI Overviews are Shockingly Bad

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5. Biden Robocall Faker Faces $6M Fine & Prison

The political consultant who created a deepfake President Biden robocall in advance of the New Hampshire primary faces $6M in fines, along with more than two dozen criminal charges.

4. Google, Meta and OpenAI Are Hollywood Deal-Hunting

Generative video is clearly heating up behind the scenes. Bloomberg reports that many of the major labs, including Google, Meta and OpenAI are all trying to cut deals with Hollywood studios around not only data for training but seemingly other creative AI uses as well.

3. Elon Warns of Future Where AI Does All the Jobs

Fewer jobs, more money, no purpose. That’s Elon Musk’s warning about a possible future where AI takes over a significant portion of the work humans currently do. Do you think this is likely? And if it happens, is it as bad as Elon seems to think?

2. OpenAI Reverses Course on Nondisparagement

For the last week, there has been a fierce conversation about OpenAI’s practices when employees lead the company. TL;DR the company has been accused of threatening to take away equity if people don’t agree to aggressive non-disparagement clauses. OpenAI has explicitly announced to all employees that that will not happen.

1. Google’s AI Overviews are Shockingly Bad

Remember when Google got flak for its a-historical image generations? Well now the whole internet is talking about their AI Overviews, which are suggesting among other things that people should eat a rock every day, that Barack Obama was Muslim, and that depressed people should consider jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge.

Bonus: The Internet Remains Undefeated

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