Happy Tuesday! Here’s our curated briefing of the most important news, partnerships, and experiments in AI and creativity. Found this useful? Forward it to a friend!
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✨ Inspiration
Our inspiration for this issue comes from Javi Lopez ⛩️, who created this Miyazaki-esque animation using Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, and RunwayML. Even better— he shares great tutorials on exactly how he did this.
🔥 Latest news
OpenAI responds to a class-action lawsuit from book authors and disputes claims that “generative AI is derivative work” http://tinyurl.com/5ywx58hn
OpenAI releases a guide for teachers using ChatGPT in their classroom, including suggested prompts, an explanation of how ChatGPT works and its limitations, the efficacy of AI detectors, and bias https://bit.ly/3r1P1gc
X’s privacy policy confirms it will use public data to train AI models https://tcrn.ch/3sGYU3l
🤝 Partnerships
Sony and Universal Music Group-owned production music firm APM Music partners with AI startup Incantio to improve catalog discovery https://bit.ly/45NOj4S
🎓 Recent Academic Papers
Graph of Thoughts presents a prompting approach that more closely resembles human reasoning http://tinyurl.com/29erx3f7
NYU Tandon School of Engineering introduces a breakthrough AI technique for altering facial age while maintaining distinctive identity traits https://bit.ly/3P7n8em
FaceChain is an open-source deep-learning toolchain for generating portraits http://tinyurl.com/yt2ketn9
🔧 Cool Tools and Experiments
Substack introduces AI-powered audio transcription tools for podcasts https://tcrn.ch/3qSwXVM
TikTok’s AR development platform Effect House exits beta, allowing creators to build AR effects for use in the video app https://tcrn.ch/44JjKfv
💰 Latest Startup Fundings
OpenAI-backed language learning app Speak raises $16M to expand to the US https://tcrn.ch/3qSwXFg
AI-powered social networking platform BeFake secures $3M in seed funding https://bit.ly/3qSwWRI
Martian Lawyers Club raises $2.2M in a pre-seed funding round led by Fly Ventures: Taking game personalization to the next level with generative AI https://tcrn.ch/3qPJWaM