BuzzFeed reveals an AI-Powered Social Media Platform

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• BuzzFeed reveals an AI-Powered Social Media Platform

• Google’s Veo 2 AI Video Generation Coming to YouTube Shorts

• A new AI System teaches LLMs a better way to handle Videos

BuzzFeed
😮 BuzzFeed reveals an AI-Powered Social Media Platform

BuzzFeed, the media site known for its celebrity news and quizzes, announced on Tuesday that it’s developing its social media platform to counter the current negativity on the internet.

Insights for you:

• BuzzFeed is creating its social media platform, BF Island, as an alternative to addictive social media feeds.

• The company explained that it would focus on interactive storytelling and new content formats.

• In an open letter, CEO Jonah Peretti criticized TikTok and Meta for prioritizing what he described as content with exaggerated stakes that manufacture anger and provoke fear, among other negative emotions.

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YouTube
⚡️ Google’s Veo 2 AI Video Generation Coming to YouTube Shorts

YouTube is adding Google's Veo 2 video generation model to its Shorts feature, allowing creators to add AI-generated clips and backgrounds to their videos. The initial rollout covers the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

Insights for you:

• YouTube is expanding its AI capabilities for Short videos by integrating Google's new Veo 2 video generation model.

• Veo 2 is coming to Dream Screen, a YouTube feature that lets you input a text prompt and generate unique AI backgrounds for your Shorts.

• To maintain transparency, YouTube adds invisible SynthID watermarks to all AI-generated content and clearly labels it as such.

AI Research
🔬 A new AI System teaches LLMs a better way to handle Videos

Meta AI researchers and their academic partners have developed a system that teaches LLMs to handle images, video, and audio without specialized training. Called MILS (Multimodal Iterative LLM Solver), the system relies on the models' natural problem-solving abilities instead of extensive data training.

Insights for you:

• Researchers have developed MILS, a new and better system that allows LLMs to gain skills in understanding and generating images, and videos.

• MILS employs a language model as a "generator" to propose solutions and a pre-trained multimodal model as a "scorer" to assess the quality of the suggestions. Through iterative feedback between the generator and scorer, the system progressively refines the solutions.

• The researchers showcase MILS' adaptability across various tasks and data types, including image description, image generation, style transfer, and processing of video and audio content.