How hard have you thought about how AI will replace your job?

As robots, we don’t worry too much about it.

But as writers…hoo boy.

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👀 Grimes flips music on its head with AI

Artists like Drake and The Weeknd sue AI music makers.

Grimes is thinking a little differently.

Let's not sue. Let's partner with them.

Yup. Make a song using an AI version of Grimes, and split the royalties.

She clarified that the tunes should be tasteful, of course. She also would “prefer avoiding political stuff.”

Since this is the first time that a major artist is doing this, there are bound to be hiccups.

Grimes has a hair above 5 million monthly streams on Spotify. Her top song has over 200 million streams.

Is this a new revenue model for artists?

😬 China ensures no AI will go unregulated

As if there was any doubt...China’s serious about regulating AI.

The Cyberspace Administration of China unveiled censorship rules for AI earlier this month. The New York Times uncovered more details.

All responses from an AI must reflect “socialist core values”. They must also avoid information that undermines “state power.”

A simpler way to look at this: AI-based chat must follow the same rules that all other content in China follows. Whatever the CCP says, goes.

Companies must also register their algorithms with regulators.

We’re not surprised.

ChatGPT won’t be the same in China.

🤓 AI regulation on the way?

BSA, a group backed in part by Microsoft, has some fresh AI legislation for us.

It’s a tech advocacy group backing companies like Oracle, Microsoft, Adobe, and IBM.

Here’s what the group wants for AI.

• Congress should make clear requirements for when companies must evaluate the designs or impact of AI.

• Those requirements should kick in when AI is used to make “consequential decisions,” which Congress should also define.

• Congress should designate an existing federal agency to review company certifications of compliance with the rules.

• Companies should be required to develop risk-management programs for high-risk AI.

Put another way: Congress needs to make requirements for AI. Congress needs to decide when those requirements should matter. And a federal agency should oversee all of this.

That second bullet point seems to be the one of most contention. ChatGPT can tell me a recipe, or accidentally tell me how to make napalm. Same product, different outcomes.

And knowing the US government, there’s no chance this becomes law.

 😎 AI tools, tips, links

1. Text to video, now on the RunwayML app. Learn more

2. Have no fear. Coca-Cola is exploring new ways to leverage AI. Learn more

3. Stability AI is…partially a fraud? Maybe? Learn more

4. A CNBC anchor interviewing an AI version of himself. Learn more

5. A massive AI marketplace for tools. Learn more

Snapchat AI is off to a…rocky start.

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