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OpenAI inks deal with Axel Springer on licensing news for model training

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Many, if not most, generative AI tech vendors argue that fair use entitles them to train AI models on copyrighted material scraped from the internet — even if they don’t get permission from the rightsholders.

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OpenAI connects ChatGPT to the internet

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OpenAI’s viral AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT , can now browse the internet — in certain cases. Image Credits: OpenAI The live web is less curated than a static training data set and — by implication — less filtered, of course. Meta’s since-disbanded BlenderBot 3.0

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OpenAI wants to work with organizations to build new AI training data sets

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It’s an open secret that the data sets used to train AI models are deeply flawed. and Western-centric, partly because Western images dominated the internet when the data sets were compiled. Image corpora tends to be U.S.- All rights reserved.

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Google expands program to help train the formerly incarcerated

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Last April, Google launched Grow with Google Career Readiness for Reentry, a program created in partnership with nonprofits to offer job readiness and digital skills training for formerly incarcerated individuals. Inmates can go well over a decade without access to technologies like smartphones and only limited familiarity with the internet.

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Synthetaic raises $3.5M to train AI with synthetic data

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Synthetaic is a startup working to create data — specifically images — that can be used to train artificial intelligence. The startup also validates its results after an AI has been trained on Synthetaic’s synthesized images, by testing that AI on real data. The startup, which has now raised a total of $4.5

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Nigeria’s Decagon raises millions to finance and train software engineers

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As a serial founder, Nwobi ran a couple of tech businesses, most notably mobile internet company MTech in the early 2000s. That’s what Decagon hopes for by training and connecting engineers to work remotely with both local and international companies. Today, Decagon is announcing its $1.5 Canada, the U.K., and Germany.

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Arist adds $2M to its seed round to grow its SMS-based training service

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This morning Arist , a startup that sells software allowing other organizations to offer SMS-based training to staff, announced that it has extended its seed round to $3.9 million after adding $2 million to its prior raise. But Arist feels a bit more mature financially than some of its peers, perhaps due to its price point.

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