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In today's edition:

• BuzzFeed adopts AI-generated content courtesy of OpenAI

• Roundups of the top headlines and hottest product launches

• A text-to-3D model demo

✍️ 120 Reasons BuzzFeed Hired AI

BuzzFeed took one of its own "Which Character Are You?" quizzes and purposefully answered the questions like a robot.

According to a leaked staff memo from BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti, AI will play a larger role in the company's editorial and business operations this year.

The publication tapped OpenAI to enhance its quizzes and personalize some content for its audiences. Meanwhile, humans will be left to provide ideas, "cultural currency", and "inspired prompts".

An AI-powered quiz might help readers create a personal romantic comedy movie pitch, with prompts like, "Pick a trope for your rom-com," and "Tell us an endearing flaw you have." The result could be a unique, shareable write-up based on their responses.

Some BuzzFeed employees are understandably worried about being replaced by machines, but management assures them that its AI adoption will not lead to a WALL-E future. Just a DALL-E one.

In other words, BuzzFeed is hoping AI will be yet another productivity tool, the sidekick of the creative process that spices up the site's content. Humans will still call the shots and be in charge of the secret sauce.

BuzzFeed's stock closed up 120% after the news broke. Maybe instead of being coy about its AI use, CNET should have just leaked a memo.

(The Wall Street Journal)

🤠 Headline Roundup

Medium updated its standards to welcome “the responsible use of AI-assistive technology" while requiring that stories created with AI assistance are clearly labeled. (Medium)

A Holocaust survivor used Midjourney to retell stories of narrowly escaping. (Reuters)

DoNotPay, the startup planning to use AI to fight traffic tickets in court, dropped its "robot lawyer" after its client received threats of possible prosecution and jail time. (NPR)

Interview: DoNotPay CEO Joshua Browder talks new AI products and more. (Fast Company)

The University of Texas at Austin announced a large-scale, low-cost, online Master of Science degree program in AI for about $10,000 in Spring 2024. (The New York Times)

Box CEO Aaron Levie offered advice for leaders heading into tech's generative AI era. (Inc.)

Springer Nature, the world's largest academic publisher, clarified that LLMs like ChatGPT can't be credited as an author but that AI can help write papers, if disclosed. (The Verge)

Inscribe raised $25 million to fight financial fraud by using AI on documents. (TechCrunch)

Editorial: ChatGPT Isn't the Only Way to Use AI in Education (WIRED)

🔥 Hottest Product Launches

• Ask by Slite - uses your team's documentation to answer your questions (link)

• GoCharlie - generates an entire social media campaign from whatever you upload (link)

• WritingMate - a writing assistant alternative to ChatGPT in a Chrome extension (link)

• MagicPath AI - transforms your content into a course in minutes (link)

• GlimmerAI - creates professional-quality presentations from text in seconds (link)

🐕 Tweet of the Day

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