Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: Cambridge Dictionary announces “hallucinate” as its word of 2023, citing the word’s new meaning: generative AI that hallucinates “produces false information”  —  Cambridge: “When an artificial intelligence hallucinates, it produces false information.” Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: Argentina’s election has become a testing ground for AI in campaigns, as candidates use AI-created images and videos to promote themselves and attack each other  —  The two men jostling to be the country’s next president are using artificial intelligence to create images and videos to promote themselves and attack each other. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Nothing pulls its Sunbird-based iMessage app Nothing Chats from the Play Store after a researcher found messages are not E2EE, attachments are public, and more  —  Sunbird has been promising iMessage support on Android for about a year now, but the company has always seemed rather sketchy. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Axios: OpenAI memo: Sam Altman’s firing wasn’t due to “malfeasance” or related to financial, business, safety, or security practices but a “breakdown in communication”  —  Team – after yesterday’s announcement, which took us all by surprise, we have had multiple conversations … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kalley Huang / The Information: Meta split up its Responsible AI team, moving most of its members to the generative AI team it formed in February, and others to an AI infrastructure unit  —  Meta Platforms has split up a team responsible for understanding and preventing harms associated with the artificial intelligence … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kate Clark / The Information: Sam Altman’s firing jeopardizes the sale of OpenAI employees’ shares; a source says the tender offer values OpenAI at ~$86B and was set to happen in December  —  A planned sale of OpenAI employee shares that would value the startup at about $86 billion on paper hangs in the balance … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Todd Bishop / GeekWire: A look at OpenAI’s complicated relationship with Microsoft, which does not have a seat on the OpenAI board due to OpenAI’s origins as a non-profit organization  —  OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was as bullish as ever about artificial intelligence and the ChatGPT maker’s latest advances when he spoke Thursday … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Axios: OpenAI memo: Altman’s firing was not due to “malfeasance” or related to financial, business, safety, or security practices but a “breakdown in communication”  —  Team – after yesterday’s announcement, which took us all by surprise, we have had multiple conversations … Lees verder op Tech Meme