- The AI Report
- Posts
- 🏴☠️ Zuckerberg caught illegally pirating?
🏴☠️ Zuckerberg caught illegally pirating?
🎙️ Personalized podcasts from Google
Martin Crowley, Liam Lawson & Amanda Greenwood
January 10, 2025
In partnership with
Sponsorship | Go Pro | Sign Up
You’re reading The AI Report by Upscaile.
____________
🔓 Friday’s AI Report:
Read Time: 5 minutes
P.S. We just released a podcast with Michael Houck — check it out here.
❗Quick Update: We’re transitioning to a new email address: [email protected]
To keep receiving our emails in your Primary Inbox, store this address as a contact, and move us from your Promotions/Spam folders.
Your engagement helps us deliver better content—thanks for staying connected!
📈 AI STOCK TRACKER
Read The AI Reports weekly Stock Market Roundup to track the latest AI stock market movements.
LATEST IN AI
— — — — — — —
🏴☠️ Zuckerberg caught illegally pirating?
🚨 Our Report — Meta’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, has been accused of allowing his team to use pirated versions of copyrighted e-books to train its AI model, Llama, in a recently updated lawsuit, originally filed in 2023, by comedian Sarah Silverman, author Ta-Nehisi Coates, and others.
🔓 Key Points:
The lawsuit—Kadrey vs Meta—was updated this week with new evidence showing that Meta used “links aggregator” LibGen to train earlier versions of Llama with pirated, copyrighted material.
LibGen—which provides PDF versions of published books (which can be downloaded for nothing)—has previously been sued and fined by publishers, like McGraw Hill, for providing access to copyrighted work.
Meta’s Llama team was worried about using a “data set” they knew “to be pirated,” concerned it would undermine Meta’s position with regulators, but regardless of this, Zuckerberg still “approved Meta’s use of LibGen.”
🔐 Relevance — Kadrey vs Meta is just one of many lawsuits accusing tech giants, like Meta, of using copyrighted material to train their AI models, but many of the accused—including Meta—are arguing that they’re protected under the ‘Fair Use’ doctrine, which allows for the use of copyrighted work, as long as it’s used to create something new, and “sufficiently transformative.”
Is Meta within its ‘Fair Use’ rights, or should it be penalized for copyright infringement? |
— — — — — — —
An entirely new way to present ideas
Gamma’s AI creates beautiful presentations, websites, and more. No design or coding skills required. Try it free today.
— — — — — — —
🎙️ Personalized podcasts from Google
🚨 Our Report — Google is testing a new AI feature—Daily Listen—that automatically creates a personalized podcast, based on a user's personal search history and interaction with their ‘discover feed.
🔓 Key Points:
Daily Listen generates 5-minute podcast episodes, based on individual search and discover feed data, giving users an overview of the topics they're most interested in, with links to related stories, for in-depth insights.
It also generates a transcript of each episode and has controls that allow users to play, pause, mute, rewind, or skip to the next story, and the feature sits in the personalized widget carousel underneath the Search bar.
Currently, these episodes will appear daily for just US Android and iOS users who have opted into Google’s Search Labs project, with a wider rollout to the public, supposedly coming over the next few months.
🔐 Relevance — According to Google, Daily Listen “is a personalized AI-powered audio experience that is designed to help you stay up to date on the topics you care about,” and is part of a push to enhance personalization to keep up with its close rivals, Perplexity and OpenAI, who have released AI-powered search features and could be creeping closer to replacing Google as the #1 search engine.
— — — — — — —
🥊 Google fights rivals with DeepMind expansion
Following on from the above and its fight to keep pace with its rivals and cling on to its diminishing share of the search market, Google is expanding its DeepMind unit, which produced its AI model, Gemini.
To streamline operations and accelerate the development of AI-powered products, Google has decided to bring its AI Studio team, and the team developing the API for Gemini, to sit within DeepMind.
Although the DeepMind team is growing, the mission for the division will stay the same: To "build the world’s best AI developer platform, bringing the latest models, tools, and techniques from Google to external developers."
— — — — — — —
TOGETHER WITH INCOGNI
You’ve likely received a sketchy call, text, or email asking for $$$. It might've been easy to spot, but with deepfakes and AI, scams are getting trickier.
Scammers use your personal data, often bought legally from data brokers who sell your mobile number, DOB, SSN, and more. Incogni scrubs your data from the web, taking on 200+ data brokers on your behalf.
Unlike others, Incogni deletes your info from all broker types, including people search sites where anyone can get your details for a few bucks.
❗Plus: AI Tool Report readers get an exclusive 55% off all annual plans with the code AITOOL
TRENDING AI TOOLS
PRACTICAL AI
— — — — — — —
Prompt InspirationAfter typing this prompt you will get a content strategy that will allow you to reach and engage audiences in different languages. P.S. Use the Prompt Engineer GPT by The AI Report to 10x your prompts. | Help me plan a multilingual content strategy that engages audiences in various regions and languages |
— — — — — — —
RECOMMENDED RESOURCES
STARTUPS
Name: Abridge
Value: $850M
Funding raised: $200M
Abridge, founded by Dr Shiv Rao (a practicing cardiologist) in 2018, records Doctors’ conversations with their patients and uses AI to summarize them, cutting time spent taking detailed notes for patient records.
PODCASTS
In this episode of The AI Report Podcast, Liam talks to Michael Houck, founder of ‘Megaphone’ and the ‘Founding Journey’ newsletter, about how AI is disrupting the startup ecosystem, exploring topics around strategy, creativity, and growth, and a new era for entrepreneurship.
QUICK HITS
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:
“What AI application would best assist me in switching my small business office files from paper to digital”
THIS WEEKS ANSWER:
To digitalize office files, we’d recommend Scanbot (available from Google Play or the Apple store).
This tool will scan all your paper documents, contracts, receipts, and other files and turn them into PDFs or other editable, digital formats. And, on top of that, it can also extract text from these scanned documents, which lets you search for specific words or dates without having to manually trawl through pages and pages of text.
We read your emails, comments, and poll replies daily.
Hit reply and tell us what you want more of!
Got a friend who needs to learn more about AI? Sign them up for The AI Report here.
Until next time, Martin, Liam, and Amanda.
P.S. Unsubscribe if you don’t want us in your inbox anymore.
What did you think of this edition? |