Welcome to AI This Week, Gizmodo’s weekly deep dive on what’s been happening in artificial intelligence.
Things just keep getting worse for Cruise, the troubled robotaxi company that once dreamed of being a leader in the autonomous driving industry.
In a continued effort to make a dying platform profitable, Elon Musk unveiled two subscription tiers for X, formerly known as Twitter.
X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, has apparently shadowbanned The New York Times, preventing users from seeing tweets that link to the newspaper’s coverage. The move smacks of a particular irony, given that the Times is one of X’s major advertisers and is currently running campaigns to promote its new sports…
- If there’s one thing you do this week it should be listening to Werner Herzog read poetry written by a chatbot.
The Associated Press is putting its foot down on journalists using any kind of AI program to write articles, though that isn’t stopping the company itself from making a quick buck in exchange for training generative AI on older AP content.
The New York Times is making it clear that the AI industry won’t be given free rein to pilfer the newspaper’s content to train algorithms.
Google hungers for all that content produced by the wealth of digital publishers creating text, video, and images on a daily basis. To deal with the sticky copyright issues at the heart of AI training, Google is proposing that all those companies who don’t want their content gobbled up will need to “opt-out” to ensure…