5 things about AI you may have missed today: Discord to shut down Clyde AI, Microsoft tweaks AI, more
The weekend is almost here but before you zone out, here are the most noteworthy developments from the artificial intelligence world. In the first incident, Discord, the popular social media platform is getting rid of its in-house experimental AI chatbot Clyde. It will no longer be available from December 1, 2023. In other news, Microsoft has made changes to its AI image generator tool after it created very close resembling images of Disney posters, along with its logo. This and more in today's AI roundup. Let us take a closer look.
Discord is discontinuing Clyde, its experimental AI chatbot, by deactivating it at the end of the month, as per a note by the company. Users will no longer be able to invoke Clyde in direct messages, group messages, or server chats starting from December 1st. The chatbot, which leveraged OpenAI's models for answering questions and engaging in conversations, had been in limited testing since earlier in the year, with initial plans to integrate it as a fundamental component of Discord's chat and communities app.
Microsoft has adjusted its AI image generator tool following concerns over a social media trend where users used the tool to create realistic Disney film posters featuring their pets, reports the Financial Times. The generated images, posted on TikTok and Instagram, raised copyright issues as Disney's logo was visible. In response, Microsoft blocked the term "Disney" from the image generator, displaying a message stating the prompt was against its policies. It is suggested that Disney may have reported concerns related to copyright or intellectual property infringement.
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