⚡️ YouTube AI is Here

It’s Friday. YouTube is taking its creators' toolset to a whole new level. From AI-generated video backgrounds to AI-inspired music searches—it's a game of machines. Let's explore what's in store.

Today's Highlights:

• Anthropic reveals policy for responsible AI scaling

• Rise of AI influencers sparks debates

• OpenAI faces GDPR investigation in Poland

DEEP DIVE

YouTube Boosts Creator Tools with AI

YouTube is leveraging AI to augment its creators' toolkit, as announced at its annual Made on YouTube event. Among the new features are AI-generated video and photo content backgrounds, AI-driven topic suggestions for videos, and even a mechanism for AI-inspired music search.

YouTube Shorts

“Dream Screen” will generate video and photo backgrounds for YouTube Shorts. YouTube plans to expand these capabilities, allowing creators to remix and modify their existing content using AI tools for a more personalized creative spin.

Topic Suggestions

In addition to the innovative background generation, YouTube Studio will now suggest topics and content outlines based on existing audience trends, offering creators a tailored roadmap to potential videos.

Music Recommendations

Further stepping up the game, an AI-enhanced music recommendation feature will soon utilize a creator's video description to suggest fitting musical audio accompaniments.

AI Dubbing

Ever thought of translating your content into a different language? YouTube did—bringing an AI language dubbing feature to the fold, made possible by the talents of the Aloud team from its Area 120 incubator.

Despite AI's undeniable role in shaping content creation's future, the necessity of human creativity and originality remains paramount. After all, some things just can't be automated, right?

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PUNCHLINES

Spacewalk: AMD unveils a radiation-tolerant chip Versal, taking AI inference to space.

Chat and Churn: Salesforce announces plans to acquire Airkit.ai to build AI customer service agents.

Your Email Butler: Shortwave introduces a new AI assistant that can answer questions about your email history.

Achilles' Heel: Microsoft's data leak highlights data security challenges when training AI.

Artificial Influence: The rise in popularity of AI influencers sparks debates over realism, beauty standards, and the essence of social media.

TLDR

OpenAI faces GDPR Investigation in Poland: OpenAI is under investigation by Poland's Office for Personal Data Protection (OUDO) for potential GDPR breaches over ChatGPT. The probe, sparked by a complaint from security researcher Lukasz Olejnik, will examine alleged breaches of GDPR principles such as transparency, fairness, and data access rights—deepening the regulatory pressure on OpenAI in the EU.

Microsoft integrates AI Copilot across applications: Effective November 1st, Microsoft’s 365 Copilot AI assistant will be integrated across Windows 11, Bing, Edge, and Microsoft 365 to offer personalized answers and assistance in various tasks. The AI's capabilities include triaging emails, drafting replies, and generating business-oriented content. This development is part of Microsoft's continuous push for more AI-enabled experiences.

Anthropic rolls out policy to ensure responsible AI scaling: Anthropic, the company behind Claude AI, unveils its Responsible Scaling Policy (RSP), developed to avert ‘catastrophic’ stemming from AI applications. Inclusive of a risk-tiering framework and a provision for independent oversight, the policy highlights the company’s commitment to addressing the growing risks tied to overly-advanced AI models.

AI advancing too fast for current regulatory systems: UK's Deputy Prime Minister, Oliver Dowden, warns that AI is evolving quicker than regulators can manage, and will urge the United Nations General Assembly to establish an international regulatory framework. This comes in anticipation of the UK's AI safety summit, set to be held in Bletchley Park in November.

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