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Vimeo adds AI-Labels & Marc Andressen funds an AI Agents on X

Also: New Sora showcases

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Philip Mohr
July 26, 2024

Hey, it’s Philip.

Happy Friday vibes!

As the EU AI Act now comes officially into effect on August 1, 2024 big tech companies start rolling out their AI-content labelling implementations (this weeks Vimeo) and AI detection & watermarking classifier announcements are at an all time high.

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NEWS RUNDOWN

  • AI Detection company Pindrop secures over $100 m in funding. (TechCrunch)

  • Resemble AI launched Detect-2B a classifier that is 94% accurate in detecting AI-voices.(VentureBeat)

  • Nvidia patents own audio watermarking tech that is hard to remove and imperceptible to human hearing focusing on verifiable authenticity for speech. (DailyUpside)

  • Google seems to start scoring websites based on their likelihood of the content being artificially generated when indexing websites with the Google Crawler. (the decoder)

  • Etsy introduces rules for AI-generated items and new seller policies to combat generic AI-junk.(TechCrunch)

TOP STORY

Vimeo introduces AI content labels, requiring users to self-classify

Credit: Techcrunch

Vimeo has introduced an AI content labeling system to promote transparency on synthetic content on its platform, following YouTube, TikTok and Meta.

Initially, this labeling will rely on creators' self-disclosure, but Vimeo plans to implement automated detection and labeling of AI-generated content in the future. (Vimeo Blog & TechCrunch)

VIDEO OF THE WEEK

OpenAI released a new Sora Showcase in cooperating with Tammy Studio:

Another released showcase by digital artist Benjamin Desai.

Featured:

  • Marc Andressen funds an semi-autonomous AI Bot on Twitter with $50k in Bitcoin to upgrade its hardware and for some financial security 🙂 Read the thread X or the story on Decrypt.

  • LumaLabs AI CTO predicts we will have real time video generation (text to video) within a year. (Video on X)

AI Safety & Regulation:

  • The COPIED Act is a new proposed bill in the US Senate that aims on protecting journalists and artists from having their works used for AI training and prohibits tampering and removing of watermarks and provenance information (The Verge)

Interesting pieces:

  • The first “Miss AI” has been crowned among 1500 AI generated avatars (CNN)

  • Kara Swisher interviews Mira Murati (OpenAI CTO) focusing on AI risks, Misinformation, Training Data and Sora (YouTube)

  • “Inside Mark Zucker Zuckerberg’s AI Era” is an interesting and personal portrait/interview on the “new Zuck”, his vision for AI and his focus on AI (Bloomberg on Youtube)

  • A good recap on AI self-regulation commits by big tech: “AI companies promised to self-regulate one year ago. What’s changed?” (MIT Technology Review)