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• 🏆 Midjourney wins a victory in copyright case

• 🧠 AI generates images from human brains

• 🌐 Tools, Tweets, Resources and Tutorials

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UPDATE

🏆 Midjourney wins a victory in copyright case

Stability AI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt won the case against the artists who accused these companies of using their artworks without consent for AI model training.

The primary reason the companies won:

Two of the artists involved hadn't registered their artworks with the U.S. Copyright Office, and the third artist had registered only a small fraction of the works claimed in the lawsuit.

UPDATE

🤖 ‘AI’ named the most notable word of 2023

AI has been chosen as the Word of the Year 2023 by Collins Dictionary. Alex Beecroft, director of Collins Dictionary, remarked that AI has been a dominant topic in 2023, likening its ubiquity and integration into daily life to technologies like email and streaming.

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QUICK DIVE

🧠 Meta Researchers Use AI to Generate Images from the Human Brain

Meta was just able to decode Images from Brain Activity in real time..

This technique involves a pipeline that aligns MEG signals with pre-trained image data, and then generates visual representations. Although these generated images lack the detail of those produced by higher resolution.

The work represents a growing interest in the AI field to merge human brain activity with computer systems, a space where companies like Neuralink are also active. (see demo)

AWESOME FINDING

Here is the AI that people use to make images of places from afar look like faces:

It’s ControlNet

INTERESTING CONTENTS

🎨 Personalizing AI to a particular style

🎨 He asked chatGPT to create 8-bit/pixelated interpretations of famous artworks in DALL·E 3. The results are lovely.

TRENDING TOOLS AND WEBSITES

FREE

• Radames - A text-to-image version so you can get a sense of what it's like to live-prompt a model.

• MisGif - Turn yourself into any GIF for free

• Fabric - With AI that understands the content and context of every file, document, and image, and can turn it into actionable insights and helpful summaries

• Switchboard AI - now you can summarize, Q&A, and more on sets of docs and live web apps all at the same time

FREEMIUM

• ImgProof - It uses AI to analyze image files for spelling and grammar mistakes

HOT OFF THE PRESS

🤖 AI

• ChatGPT for career growth? Practica introduces AI-based career coaching and mentorship

• Google Brain founder says big tech is lying about AI danger 

• Can AI Replace Your Financial Adviser? Not Yet. But Wait.

🔌 TECH

• Meta given 30 days to cease using the name Threads by company that trademarked it 11 years ago

• What Apple announced at its ‘Scary Fast’ event

• Apple’s Journal app has arrived – here’s what’s good and bad 

• Elon Musk’s ‘everything app’ plan for X, in his own words

🤝 BUSINESS

• WeWork plans to file for bankruptcy as early as next week, source says

• One year after being bought for $44 billion, X is worth $19 billion

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