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Good morning, human brains. Welcome back to your daily munch of AI news.
Here’s what’s on the menu today:
Marvel AI 🦸♂️
Marvel uses generative AI for the opening credits in Secret Invasion.
ChatGPT users hacked 🦹♂️
Over 100,000 accounts have been compromised.
Dropbox’s new AI announcements 📦
Unveiling Dropbox AI, Dash, and a $50M AI venture fund.
APPETIZER
Marvel’s AI intro 🦸♂️
Marvel used generative AI to create Secret Invasion’s Opening scene. The reactions? Mixed.
Director and executive producer Ali Selim says it felt “explorative and inevitable, and exciting, and different.“
Cue the AI doomers.
Jeff Simpson, a visual development concept artist on the show, tweeted his disapproval:
“I’m devastated, I believe AI to be unethical, dangerous and designed solely to eliminate artists’ careers. Spent almost half a year working on this show and had a fantastic experience working with the most amazing people I ever met…”
Our take: Marvel has really stirred the pot with this one — with the Writer’s Guild on strike, it’s unfortunate timing. However, Selim is probably right about it being “inevitable.“
BUZZWORD OF THE DAY
Info Stealers
An info stealer is a type of Trojan virus which steals account info, cookies, credit card info, crypto wallet data, etc from infected systems.
The stealer logs the information and relays it back to the attackers, ready for exploit.
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MAIN COURSE
ChatGPT users get hacked 🦹♂️
How did they surface the hacked accounts?
In reality, it’s nothing new. Hackers sell info stealer logs from compromised devices they infect on the dark web. And ever since ChatGPT has been around? Yup, that’s right — those stealer logs also include ChatGPT credentials. There’s been an increasing number of logs listed, peaking in May.
Wait, was I hacked?
Maybe. India is the most affected region.
Other heavily affected areas include Pakistan, Brazil, Vietnam, Egypt, United States, France, Morocco, Indonesia, and Bangladesh.
Raccoon, Vidar, and Redline were the three popular info stealers responsible for the leak.
What right does malware have to sound that cute? Raccoon. Are you kidding me?!
Our recommendation: practice good password hygiene and activate 2-factor authentication on your OpenAI account.
Our take: Cyber breaches are becoming more frequent and expensive. It was only a matter of time before AI-related accounts got caught up in the mix.
A LITTLE SOMETHING EXTRA
DropBox’s new AI tools 📦
Dropbox, a hosting service, unveiled two new AI tools: a universal search feature and a tool for summarizing and querying your documents.
1/ Dropbox Dash — the new universal search feature allows you to search across apps (Gmail, Drive, etc) in a single search bar.
2/ Dropbox AI — summarizes information from larger documents stored in Dropbox accounts. You can also ask questions and get answers right in the document.
Also announced: DropBox Ventures, their sparkly new $50 million venture fund for AI startups.
Our take: Software ate the world. Now we’re seeing chat + LLMs eating software. We thought there’d be a clear runaway AI winner, but no, it’s actually kind of a nail biter, because so many companies are keeping up.
MEMES FOR DESSERT
YOUR DAILY MUNCH
Think Pieces
AI in the workplace. As AI improves, it’ll increasingly create and destroy our roles in society. The good, the bad, and the ugly.
AI at Wimbledon: this year’s commentary is led by IBM’s watsonx AI platform, trained by the All England Club.
Senate Majority Leader Schumer talks AI. His legislative framework for tackling AI regulations.
Startup News
Pixar uses AI to create a new character, for their new Elemental movie.
Google DeepMind released RoboCat. An AI model that can perform a wide range of tasks through robotic arm models.
Research
A GitHub repo for Wanda. Wanda simplifies LLMs by eliminating redundant network weights and activations.
An in-depth look at RoboCat’s processes. Everything from training to real-world applications.
Tools
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TWEET OF THE DAY
Brian Long, a famous independent filmmaker, tweets his disapproval of Marvel’s decision to use AI for Secret Invasions’s intro:
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