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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:

• ChatGPT Browse disabled ❌

  OpenAI cites violations of their content guidelines as the reason behind the move.

• Midjourney’s new “Pan” feature 🍳 

  Outpainting with a single click.

• Google calls dibs on data for AI 🐙 

  A sneaky update to their privacy policy.

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APPETIZER

ChatGPT browse is MIA? 👀

OpenAI disabled ChatGPT’s Bing search feature.

But h-why? GPT was reportedly showing content in a manner that violated OpenAI’s guidelines.

Naughty, naughty.

They also issued a reminder that ChatGPT Plus is still in beta:

Subtle.

Our take: There’s a lot on the line, so it’s understandable that OpenAI’s treading lightly. Sounds a little too careful, though — perhaps there’s a bigger reason for 86’ing the browse feature than content scraping.

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Midjourney’s new “Pan” feature 🖼️

Midjourney introduced a new outpainting feature, dubbed “Pan.” Users can quickly extend their images with AI, vertically and side to side.

After upscaling a generated image, these four new buttons appear:

And when you select one, Midjourney extends the generation in your desired direction.

Easy as.

Before and after panning down:

Current limitations:

1/ You can only pan Midjourney-generated images.

2/ You’re limited to panning horizontally and vertically.

3/ Applying the “Zoom Out“ feature reverts the panned image to 1024 × 1024 pixels in 1:1 aspect ratio.

Our take: DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, Adobe, and Midjourney all offered outpainting before. But whether it’s text interfaces or adding buttons, these tools are becoming faster and easier to use — some of these features are starting to feel more and more like macros. Our bet is AI interfaces continue to simplify over time, just like we’ve seen with the new Pan tool.

A LITTLE SOMETHING EXTRA

Google’s privacy policy update 🦹‍♂️

Google made a stealthy change to its Privacy and Terms. Basically, if it’s on the web, it’s fodder for their AI models.

Yoink.

The previous policy stated Google would use the data “for language models“, to train Google Translate.

The revised version? Now we see “AI models“ and “Bard and Cloud AI capabilities“ were added.

See the history of changes here.

Take: we’re not surprised in the slightest. It’s on Google’s land, so of course they’re going to use it for AI development.

Counter-take: is it right that Google own a claim to everything they touch, for any application? Feels a bit like boiling the proverbial frog. And how exactly does this interact with copyright? Who ordered fish tacos?

MEMES FOR DESSERT

YOUR DAILY MUNCH

Think Pieces

What makes AI “transformative?” The biggest difficulties and hurdles to us getting there.

How LLMs are automating work. A deep dive into the future of automating work in the future.

Is AI not as popular as we think? Are workers in tech in an AI echo chamber?

Startup News

Greyparrot’s recycling AI. It now tracks 32 billion pieces of waste every year.

Wondercraft AI launched. The tool allows users to create podcasts using realistic AI voices and an AI clone of their own voice.

Humane announces new device called “Humane AI Pin.“ It’s a portable AI device that is “seamless, screenless, and sensing.“

Research

Princeton Neuroscience Institute mapped a fruit fly’s brain with AI. View the whole-brain connectome of the brain.

Using Stable Diffusion to recreate visual experiences from brain activity. Using brain waves captured from a fMRI, the researchers use AI to reconstruct high-quality images.

Incorporating personality into LLMs. How to precisely measure personality in AI models.

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Lovo [Sponsored] — generate lifelike human voices for podcasts or videos.

MindOS — create and discover different AI avatars that help you with specialized tasks.

JobLens — a job search tool, powered by, what else, of course, AI.

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