Tech Meme

Joseph Cox / VICE: Chats, screenshots, and interviews: some people are pirating GPT-4 and offering free access after stealing OpenAI API tokens scraped from other people’s code  —  Why pay for $150,000 worth of OpenAI access when you could just steal it?  —  People on the Discord for the r/ChatGPT subreddit … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Meta plans to update its account center to give users more control over its cross-site tracking and profiling, ahead of a German antitrust ruling set for July 4  —  Meta has been dragged kicking and screaming into another notable privacy concession in Europe: The German Federal Cartel Office … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: Reddit creates an exemption from its unpopular new usage-based API pricing terms for “select developers of non-commercial apps that address accessibility needs”  —  Reddit is creating an exemption to its unpopular new API pricing terms for makers of accessibility apps … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Meta plans to update its account center to give users more control over its cross-site tracking and profiling, following a German antitrust intervention  —  Meta has been dragged kicking and screaming into another notable privacy concession in Europe: The German Federal Cartel Office (FCO) … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kris Holt / Engadget: Mojang launches Minecraft: Bedrock Edition for ChromeOS, after early access in March 2023; the $20 game runs on Chromebooks from the past three years and more  —  It will run on any Chromebook from the last three years, as well as some other models.  —  Following an early access period … Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Athletic: Sources: MLS and Apple discussed sharing new Season Pass subscriber revenue with Lionel Messi; on June 6, Apple unveiled a four-part Messi docuseries on TV+  —  Major League Soccer and Inter Miami are solidifying details around the potential signing of Argentine superstar Lionel Messi. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alyssa Mercante / Kotaku: A look at Twitch’s new ad rules for branded content, a crucial source of income for creators; after an outcry, Twitch says the initial update was “overly broad”  —  ‘The top 100 streamers on Twitch just got told they’re not allowed to make 80 percent of their revenue the way they’re used to making it.’ Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Contextual AI, which is building enterprise-focused LLMs, emerges from stealth with a $20M seed led by Bain Capital Ventures  —  Large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s GPT-4 are powerful, paradigm-shifting tools that promise to upend industries.  But they suffer from limitations … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Morgan Sung / TechCrunch: Luka, which develops Replika, launches Blush, an AI chatbot service to help users with “relationship and intimacy skills” via characters Klea, Aisha, and Theo  —  The team behind the AI friendship bot Replika is launching another AI companion — one that’s made to flirt. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Brendan I. Koerner / Wired: A profile of Christopher Bouzy, the CEO of Twitter analytics startup Bot Sentinel, and his attempts to build Twitter rival Spoutible, starting in November 2022  —  When Elon Musk’s reign of toxic chaos began, Christopher Bouzy didn’t just go looking for a rival place to post. Lees verder op Tech Meme