ChatGPT disables Web browsing

Hey folks,

In today’s update:

📰 News: ChatGPT disables web browsing

🛠️ Tools: Auto-generate captions for videos

🧠 Learn: Microsoft’s new course on AI

🎲 Misc: OpenAI predicts super-intelligence could arrive in this decade

Reading time is 4 minutes. Let’s dive in 🤿

ChatGPT disables Web Browsing

ChatGPT disabled the “Browse” plugin, a feature that lets you browse the internet, because it could bypass paywalls on some websites.

But, the real sauce is in how it was communicated - The plugin is disabled because OpenAI wants to “do right by content owners”.

After scraping the internet for years without restriction to train its powerful AI models, OpenAI’s is suddenly becoming aware of rights of content owners.

Behind the PR facade, OpenAI might be preparing to fight the incoming wave of lawsuits over privacy violations.

Last week, Microsoft and OpenAI were sued in a class action lawsuit for $3 billion in damages for allegedly stealing “vast amounts of private information” from internet users without consent in order to train ChatGPT.

But this is the legal gray zone - if google can scrape your online published content, why can’t OpenAI?

New Tools
Leverage AI to grow

• Create captions for videos: Submagic generates captions with perfect emojis and intelligently highlighted keywords, all generated by AI in seconds. (link)

• Create AI agents for your work: MindOS platform lets you create autonomous AI agents for your professional tasks. Offers features like customizable thought chain with long term memory, 100+ API integrations, plus deploy them anywhere and even train with your own data.(link)

Learn

• Microsoft launched a new online course to help you learn the core concepts of AI and generative AI functionality. (link)

Misc
From the corners of the Internet

• Midjourney launched a new “panning” feature that allows you to expand an image in all four directions multiple times, enabling complex images like panorama. Here’s how to use it - Medium

• Cal fire, California’s firefighting department is using AI to detect wildfires using cameras to generate real-time alerts whenever smoke is detected - Tech Times

• After export restrictions on GPUs to China, US is now looking to restrict access to cloud computing as the race to AI heats up - WSJ

• During crypto winter, large crypto mining farms are now pivoting to AI - Tom’s Hardware

• OpenAI believes AI will become ‘superintelligent’ in this decade, forms a new team with to control the AI and prevent it from going rouge - OpenAI