🗞 OpenAI's Aggressive Tactics Toward Ex-Employees Exposed 🚨

🔎 The Latest on the AI Frontier:

• OpenAI's Aggressive Tactics Toward Ex-Employees Exposed 🚨

• OpenAI Strikes News Corp Deal for AI Training Data 🤝

• Meta Forms Advisory Group to Guide AI Efforts 🥸

• Google's AI Search Feature Found to Contain Inaccuracies 🔎

• Scarlett Johansson Calls Out OpenAI's Lack of Transparency 🎙

• Schumacher Family Wins Legal Battle Over Fake AI Interview 🏎

• Microsoft's AI "Recall" Feature Under Investigation for Privacy Concerns 🕵️‍♂️

🚨 Leaked documents reveal OpenAI's aggressive tactics toward former employees, contradicting CEO Sam Altman's public statements. Read More

• OpenAI's incorporation documents, signed by Altman in April 2023, contain clauses giving the company near-arbitrary authority to claw back equity from former employees or block them from selling it.

• Ex-employees were pressured to sign ultra-restrictive NDAs within 7 days, risking the loss of millions in vested equity if they refused or sought legal counsel.

• OpenAI has committed to releasing former employees from nondisparagement obligations and ensuring they retain vested equity, but questions remain about the executive team's responsibility in the scandal.

🤝 OpenAI inks multi-year deal with News Corp to access news content from WSJ, NY Post, and The Times for its AI platform. Read More

• The deal, reportedly worth around $250 million, grants OpenAI access to current and archived content from News Corp publications.

• This partnership follows similar agreements with the Financial Times and Axel Springer, highlighting AI companies' growing need for high-quality data to train their models.

• The impact on journalism is debatable, as compensation for individual writers may be minimal, and the long-term effect of AI services could threaten the media industry.

🥸 Mark Zuckerberg forms Meta Advisory Group to guide the company's AI and technology efforts, signaling a strong focus on AI-driven products. Read More

• The group consists of four executives from Stripe, GitHub, Shopify, and Microsoft, who will provide insights and recommendations without compensation or fiduciary duty.

• Zuckerberg expressed optimism about Meta's potential to become the world's leading AI company, although immediate financial returns may not be realized.

• Meta plans to spend an additional $5 billion on developing AI products, setting new precedents in the tech industry's AI arms race.

🔎 Google's new 'AI Overview' feature in search results provides succinct answers but has been found to contain inaccuracies and "hallucinations." Read More

• The AI-generated summaries have provided wrong information about historical events, upcoming awards shows, and even fictional restaurants.

• While Google claims the AI overviews can simplify searching for users, critics argue that regular search results are often more helpful and accurate.

• The shift towards AI in search could negatively impact content websites relying on traffic for revenue and potentially affect Google's ad revenue, despite the company's efforts to incorporate ads into AI-generated results.

🎙 Scarlett Johansson's dispute with OpenAI over voice mimicry highlights broader concerns about AI companies' lack of transparency. Read More

• Johansson was "shocked and angered" to discover OpenAI used a voice "eerily similar" to hers for its GPT-4o chatbot without her consent, calling for greater transparency and legislation.

• Jan Leike, former head of safety at OpenAI, resigned claiming safety has taken a backseat to "shiny products," while co-founder Ilya Sutskever's departure removes another counterweight to CEO Sam Altman.

• The Foundation Model Transparency Index by Stanford University reveals leading AI companies' shortcomings in data access, model trustworthiness, and usage policies, with some models remaining "extremely opaque."

🏎 Schumacher family wins legal action against German magazine over fake AI-generated interview, receiving €200,000 in compensation. Read More

• "Die Aktuelle" published a controversial front-page feature claiming to have a "first interview" with Michael Schumacher since his 2013 skiing accident, using AI-generated quotes without permission from the family.

• The magazine's editor-in-chief, Anne Hoffmann, was relieved of her duties following the publication of the "tasteless and misleading" article, which prompted an apology from the publisher.

• The Schumacher family has kept details about the seven-time world champion's condition and recovery strictly private since the accident, with the only insight coming from the family-curated Netflix documentary "Schumacher" in 2021.

🕵️‍♂️ UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) investigates Microsoft's new AI-powered "Recall" feature over data privacy concerns. Read More

• Microsoft's Recall feature takes screenshots of users' PC activity in the background, creating a searchable AI-indexed archive, raising concerns among cybersecurity experts.

• The feature stores sensitive data like passwords and health information locally on users' devices, potentially making it accessible to bad actors such as hackers.

• The ICO, an independent public authority tasked with upholding data privacy rights, is making inquiries with Microsoft to understand the safeguards in place to protect user privacy.

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