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😱 Apple pulls AI feature!
⚠️ Snapchat AI harmful to young users?
Martin Crowley, Liam Lawson & Amanda Greenwood
January 17, 2025
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😱 Apple pulls AI feature!
🚨 Our Report — After a string of embarrassing blunders since it launched in October, Apple has temporarily paused its AI-powered news and entertainment notification summary feature, after facing mounting criticism from various news outlets—including the BBC News, a respected UK-based news outlet, which has called the feature "a danger to the public's right to reliable information on current affairs"—for generating entirely false and inaccurate news summaries.
🔓 Key Points:
In addition to pulling the AI notification summary feature, Apple is also working on a few changes to provide greater transparency over when the notifications summaries have been generated by AI.
When it relaunches, the AI-generated summaries will be in italics, so users can tell them apart from regular notifications, and users will also be able to disable the feature for specific apps, from their Lock Screen.
Apple will also notify users that the feature is in beta and “may contain errors,” which should appease critics who’ve argued that “the public must not be placed in a position of second-guessing the accuracy of news."
🔐 Relevance — This comes after Apple announced, last week, that they would be releasing an update to “further clarify” that the notification summaries had been generated by AI—with many expecting this to involve some sort of label or badge—but nothing has been said about refining the AI models capabilities to stop it from making these mistakes in the first place.
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⚠️ Snapchat AI harmful to young users?
🚨 Our Report — The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has publically announced that it has referred a complaint against Snap (owner of the social app, Snapchat) and its AI chatbot—My AI—to the Department of Justice (DOJ).
🔓 Key Points:
Although the FTC was vague about why it had raised a complaint against Snap and ‘My AI’, it did accuse ‘My AI’ of presenting 'risks and harms to young users of the application.'
My AI—which is powered by OpenAI tech—lets users chat with it, within Snapchat, but the FTC revealed that an investigation had “uncovered a reason to believe that Snap is violating or is about to violate the law.”
In response, Snap has blasted the complaint, believing it to be “based on inaccuracies” and lacking “concrete evidence,” failing to “identify any tangible harm,” and thinks it will “stifle innovation and competition.”
🔐 Relevance — This is unusual behavior for the FTC, as complaints to the DOJ aren’t usually made public until charges are officially filed, but the FTC established that it made the complaint public because they had “determined that doing so is in the public interest.”
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✒️ Mistral inks huge content partnership
French start-up, Mistral, makers of ChatGPT rival, Le Chat, have announced a multi-year, content partnership with ‘leading’ French news corporation—Agence France-Presse (AFP).
The partnership will give Mistral access to the entire back catalog of AFP news stories (for context, AFP produces 2,300 stories p/d, in 6 different languages, including English, German, and Arabic).
Mistral has partnered with AFP, a “globally trusted news agency” to improve the accuracy of Le Chat, and give its users “reliable, factual, and up-to-date responses, verified by professional journalists.”
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FRIDAY’S Q&A
Each week, we choose one question to answer from you, our loyal subscribers, to help us all learn how to navigate the complex world of AI.
THIS WEEKS QUESTION:
“Why do experts and scientists define AGI so differently, and which definitions do you think make the most sense?”
THIS WEEKS ANSWER:
Definitions of AGI differ because the concept of AGI incorporates ideas from different disciplines—including computer science, neuroscience, philosophy, and ethics—which, therefore, encourages lots of different perspectives. For example, academics might define AGI in relation to understanding knowledge, tech companies might focus more on the potential for it to create value (think OpenAI and Microsoft’s recently revealed definition!), and philosophers might highlight the societal existential, and ethical implications surrounding the development of it.
So, with that being said, the AGI definition that makes the most sense to us would combine elements of science and philosophy, with real-world practical application. Something like this, for example:
“AGI is a system that can autonomously understand, learn, and adapt to new situations and environments, across a wide range of tasks—ranging from solving problems to completing creative tasks—without needing task-specific programming, so that it can equal or even exceed human capability.”
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