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Here's some headlines with no paranormal activity:

• Video platforms help advertisers embrace AI

• Some bigshot AI experts debate each other

• Stack Overflow takes a huge L

• None of your photos are real anymore

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The ads are coming! The ads are coming!

I feel like a modern-day Paul Revere shouting this out to anyone who will listen right now, but AI is set to take over “organic” video posting. All the signs are there.

ByteDance, the owner of TikTok and Capcut, announced new features for businesses that can generate a script for clients and even make a video from text. All with the goal of making it easier to advertise on their platforms.

That’s not good.

Ads are already the lowest common denominator in the content sphere, so making them even more generic and easy to create is a recipe for cheap, annoying spam.

And CapCut isn’t alone.

YouTube wants to help companies make trending, well-placed content that targets audiences with Hawkeye-like precision.

That means these companies are about to know more about you and use it to their advantage.

This all may sound like Chicken Little to you, but trust me on this one. Generative AI is a fantastic development that improves things for many people. But there’s always a downside.

Anytime the barrier to making ads gets lowered, we, the consumers, lose.

The demand increases, and the platforms force you to watch more and more low-quality content. Get ready for that to get much worse, y’all.

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Let’s cover some low-key drama in the AI community.

Now, for this story, I won’t link the article I read because the media outlet is always overly pessimistic about their AI coverage. But the story itself is worth mentioning.

Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio got into a minor spat over AI safety in the comments of a Facebook post.

So, who are these people, and why should you care?

LeCun and Bengio are AI pioneers who, along with Geoffrey Hinton, won a Turing Award in 2018 for their work on Deep Learning.

But that doesn’t mean they see eye-to-eye.

LeCun is tired of the doomsayers and panic that permeate AI conversations today. He runs Meta’s research lab, and he’s a huge reason Llama is open-source.

He trusts people with this technology and believes it’s already adequately regulated by the companies building these models.

Bengio represents the other, more academic side of this conversation that sees the need for more human intervention. He’s not alone in these feelings, but you can see the underlying tension below this community's surface in their conversation.

You can check out the original post here and see where two great minds who’ve worked together in the past are now at a crossroads.

📸 None of your photos are all that real and you shouldn’t be surprised

📌 The WSJ gives you a quick rundown on the basic AI terms you should know

🇺🇸 The US tries to block China from accessing more advanced AI chips

🔞 Search engines are funneling traffic to tons of nonconsensual DeepFake sites

📉 As the AI coding revolution continues, Stack Overflow is forced to layoff 28% of their staff to keep things going

🔮 AI agents might be the key to a future where they replace all the workers 

😓 More stories shed light on how AI companies are paying people pennies to train AI

📈 If we want AI to help cause an economic boom, we need to get out of the way

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_{- That’s it for today. I hope you enjoyed the latest edition of inclined.ai - Davis.}