Pissed off Publishers and Joe Rogan Deepfakes This Week in ChatGPT

You aren't ready for the amount of AI heading your direction...

Welcome to The Week in ChatGPT newsletter where we discuss the latest groundbreaking products powered by ChatGPT and a bit of news in the AI community. If you have any that you would like to be featured, by all means please drop them here.

But now, what you've all been waiting for. We've got a little bit of everything in this newsletter

News Headlines

• OpenAI and Bain team-up (and no, not the supervillain from Batman, that's Bane)

• Publication companies are getting overwhelmed with AI-generated books

• AI deepfakes are becoming more and more common (aka anyone can be Joe Rogan 🫢)

Products 

• SpiritMe: Deepfakes Coming to a Phone Near You

• Otter.ai: An AI Meeting Summarizer Service

An AI Flyby for the Week

First up, we've got OpenAI teaming up with Bain, a prominent consulting company headquartered in the east coast. With Bain's extensive client network and OpenAI's razzle-dazzle of AI models, people are really excited to see what this collaboration will yield. Coca-Cola, one of Bain's customers, is particularly keen to see how they can integrate AI with their existing business. In sum, it looks like OpenAI and Bain will be co creating a lot of enterprise AI solutions for clients. OpenAI has goals to earn a revenue of 1 billion by the end of 2024 up from 35 million in revenue in 2022, and this consulting deal will certainly rake in some cash for them alongside the licensing of their AI supermodels (haha supermodels). READ MORE HERE

Second on the docket, we've got a book problem. With ChatGPT and other generative AI models on the market, writing and content creation has never been easier. Clarkesworld, one of the largest fiction publishers, had to actually close its submissions form due to the sheer volume of AI-generated spam it was getting. Bad news for my prospects as an author of anything other than this newsletter 😔.

 ChatGPT came out in the end of November and by the very next month you can already see a huge jump in the number of submissions on the chart. Even if you are vaguely horrified by this trend, you've got to respect how quick that upturn was. I can totally imagine some author on page 5 of their novella, finding out about ChatGPT and then just thinking to themself "f**k it, why not". Luckily for these publication companies, there are already tools out there to detect AI-written content, like GPTZero, otherwise these companies would be in even deeper dodoo. READ MORE HERE

Okay, quick Twitter break for those of you who want to do some reflecting. Question is: would you be comfortable reading a book co-written or entirely written by AI? What concerns or inhibitions might you have? Alternatively, if you're feeling like playing devil's advocate, what do you think an AI author could bring to the table?

Well, books aren't the end of this spammy story. No, we're just getting started. We're on to deepfakes: synthetic media where someone's likeness or voice is artificially created or replaced by another. A viral instance of this is when someone ran a deepfake Tiktok ad of Joe Rogan promoting this energy supplement called Alpha Grind. This ad was hugely successful for the product due to Joe Rogan's loyal fanbase, but the ad was later outed as a deepfake after Joe Rogan denounced it. Deepfakes are a very controversial topic because on the one hand they are super cool and could allow people to license digital avatars of themselves and revolutionize film production (bringing back actors from the beyond ect.). For example, a company called Deep Voodoo, founded by the creators of the hit show South Park, is using deepfake tech to create amazing music videos for music idols like Kendrick Lamar. On the other hand, deepfakes also open up a pandora's box of problems when it comes to people impersonating others without their permission. If the amount of Joe Biden audio deepfakes on Twitter are any indicator, this is going to be a tough nut to crack (but I got to admit they're pretty hilarious, sorry Mr. Prez). READ MORE HERE

PRODUCT 1: SpiritMe — Deepfakes Coming to a Phone Near you

So, despite everything I just mentioned as a cautionary tale about deepfakes, with SpiritMe, now each and every one of you can spin them up. But there's a catch. You would be making a deepfake for yourself, essentially a digital avatar that can talk and seem like you when prompted. So I guess it really isn't a deepfake because it's of yourself? More of a deepreal? Well, y'all heard it here first: deepreals. It sounds like I'm trying to launch a BeReal or Instagram Reels competitor, but I'm not. 

Basically, these digital avatars can be prompted to create videos of yourself saying whatever you indicate. Some of the use cases for something like this are as a digital presenter, a helper to monetize your online appearances, an amazing way to churn out ads, and as a digital front for chatbots (imagine talking face to face with chatgpt— I wouldn't want to talk to the Bing bot though, it seems a bit touchy for a search engine). Bing Shenanigans

I'm a little concerned by this text on SpiritMe's website because it makes it seem like anyone can make deepfakes of anyone, but I don't think that's how the app is setup. But if they're saying I can be Chris Hemsworth on Youtube, by all means I wouldn't complain, although Chris Hemsworth probably would. 

If you feel comfortable doing so create a video with your own digital avatar (it's free) and post it on Twitter and tag me @TheAIBloke. 

PRODUCT 2: Otter.ai — An AI Meeting Summarizer Service

 What comes to mind when you think of otters? Cute, fuzzy AI meeting summarizers? Yeah, that's what I was thinking too. Also, happens to be a perfect opportunity to reference the "what are those" memes, which had their moment of glory in 2015 (this is also a meme history newsletter, my subscribers are getting educated on all fronts 😤). 

Really miss those memes. I also realize that the thing President Obama is standing on could be like the Declaration of Independence, but I'm co-opting this imaging for meming reasons, not to make a political statement. I think Barrack and the Declaration of Independence are awesome.  

Back to otters though, I cannot recommend Otter.ai enough. It basically sits in the meeting, passively taking notes on everything that is discussed. I don't even remember it's there, but at the end of the meeting I get emailed a doc with concise and helpful meeting notes. This is the perfect tool for team stand up meetings, customer interviews, or really anything that has you taking notes on a video-call. 10/10 idea and name.

Where My Reverse Engineers At?

Time to see which of you really got a hang of making images with Midjourney. Four newsletters ago, I introduced a challenge where every week I put an image straight out of the Midjourney newbie discord. You guys get to guess the prompt that was used to generate it (reverse engineer the prompt from picture in engineer parlance). Whoever has the closest guess earns my undying respect (and maybe 5 bucks) because I still can't get my images to look like what I want most of the time. Here's the thread on my profile and comment whatever you think the seed prompt was for the image. If you don't want to do the challenge and just want to make some cool pictures, go ahead and Tweet those too!

Here's the image for this week: 

Let the guesses begin! I don't know how, but somehow this was initially created with just three words unless the Midjourney Discord is straight up lying to me. Basically, generative image models = very cool. 

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On A Serious Note

I'm sure almost everyone has heard of what is happening in Turkey and Syria by now. A magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck and there have been a series of additional earthquakes devestating the region. Please, if you can, donate to help all the people in need. 

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