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• Learn how AI influences you

• Microsoft launches AI-powered shopping tools

• OpenAI gets into more legal hot water

• AI is better at tweeting

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BLINDED BY AI

Wow, Meta pulled back the trenchcoat and revealed a heap of information about their AI systems. It was a dizzying tour de force of blog posts and special announcements that tried to mention “transparency” as much as possible.

The good guy routine is not a bad idea. Facebook and Instagram aren’t the best influences on society, so showing us a small peek under the hood (even if they do this all the time) is a good sign of trust.

It’s the subtext that should grab your attention.

Meta released multiple blog posts, 22 system cards, and a few new features that all intend to show you how their AI works to sort content and aim the right stuff at your feed.

You can try to read it, but it’s dense on purpose. They don’t want Joe Schmoe from Nebraska to understand why he keeps seeing Instagram Reels about grilling tips. Meta released all this info for more obvious reasons.

Meta wants to sell ads.

Marketers understand that technical babble and the whole PR stunt was a bat signal into the sky that tells advertisers, “We know how to target people for you. Give us your business.”

Moreover, it is all for Meta's benefit, teaching people how to customize their feed and add new features to understand the sorting effect. Thanks to new privacy settings, they can’t track you as well across the internet and your phone.

Their solution is to get you to tell them more about what you like in a way that feels empowering.

AI influences everything you see on social media. These companies are building bigger models with more robust knowledge of your actions. The feedback is getting closer to understanding you as a product to sell to advertisers.

Everything you do on social will count more, and this is the other side of the AI development coin we can’t forget about.

MICROSOFT WANTS TO HELP YOU SHOP TILL YOU DROP

Everyone shops online. E-commerce bloomed over COVID, and those habits are here to stay.

But, man, it sucks sometimes. Finding the right sneakers or headphones for your style is impossible when you need to climb a mountain of SEO junk to find helpful information.

Microsoft wants to help using AI in Bing.

Yesterday, the company announced its new AI Buying Guide feature. It’s all the power of generative AI channeled to help you find products without hassle.

Yes, you can bet your ass that Microsoft will find a way to include ads. However, the idea is sleek and innovative. Give credit where credit is due.

Their demo shows someone looking up “What to buy for college?” Instead of clicking on some referral trap, Bing Chat offers a complete guide to college necessities without the fake expertise of a disguised salesman.

The fun doesn’t stop there.

Bing’s AI chat is integrating with Microsoft Shopping tools. You can compare pricing history, find coupons, and compare products all within the chatbox.

I don’t condone shopping to shop, but this new update is worth trying out. We’ve tested the Google version of this, and it was a breath of fresh air. Every part of the experience was streamlined and given a sense of trust and rapport.

Any AI that helps rid the world of scams and dishonest reporting is a-okay with us.

Quick Nuggets

🏛️ OpenAI faces a class action lawsuit over personal data

🤔 Okay,wait, just how similar is AI to nuclear weapons

🇪🇺 The EU’s AI Act still has some hurdles to cross but people seem to forget that

📝 AI tweets sound more human than the BS thread bois come up with

✝ The Vatican weighs in on AI ethics in their new handbook

💍 A WIRED reader wrestles with the idea of using AI to write his wedding vows

📚 Nonsense books generated by AI are swarming Amazon

💰 Typeface secures a big bag of new funding to support generative AI for brands

🔥 Fresh Products

• SendFame - create celebrity videos w/ personalized message (link)

• Fellow - quick summaries of meetings with AI (link)

• MakeLanding - Build a website in seconds with AI (link)

• Knibble - instant answers from pdfs & web pages (link)

• Capture - secure creativity & content consent (link)

• Rebecc AI - helps users turn their ideas into reality (link)

• CrowdGPT - top prompts, shared inside ChatGPT (link)

• Checkmyidea - validate your business idea before launch (link)

Good Content, Stormtrooper Vacay

Even the Empire takes July 4th off. What will you be doing this Tuesday?

_{- Answer to trivia yesterday: Dartmouth College. That’s it for today. I hope you enjoyed the latest edition of inclined.ai - Davis.}