OpenAI puts hold on Sora AI

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In Today’s Newsletter: 😀 

• OpenAI puts hold on Sora AI

• xAI reportedly plans to launch ChatGPT competitor in December

• US court ruling backs schools' right to penalize students for AI cheating

OpenAI
🌐 OpenAI puts hold on Sora AI

A protest group called "Sora PR Puppets" leaked access to OpenAI's unreleased Sora video model on Hugging Face, revealing new improvements and sparking controversy over the company's early access program.

Insights for you:

• The protest group claims OpenAI recruited hundreds of artists for unpaid testing while maintaining strict control over all generated content and sharing.

• The temporary Hugging Face implementation survived for several hours before being shut down, with users seeing OpenAI's watermark on generated clips.

• The leaked system generated 1080p 10-second clips faster than the reported 10-minute render times.

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😲 xAI reportedly plans to launch ChatGPT competitor in December

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI aims to release a standalone chatbot app next month, putting it in direct competition with established AI companies for the first time, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

Currently, xAI's chatbot Grok is only accessible to subscribers of Musk's social media platform X. The planned app would make the service more widely available.

Insights for you:

• Elon Musk's AI startup xAI plans to release a standalone chatbot app in December to compete with established providers like ChatGPT. Currently, xAI's chatbot Grok is only available to subscribers of Musk's social media platform X.

• To keep up with the competition, xAI has invested heavily in infrastructure, including a data center with 100,000 Nvidia GPUs. The startup is valued at $50 billion, but lags far behind its competitors in terms of revenue.

• xAI's Grok-2 language model is technically on par with GPT-4 and Claude 3, but unlike ChatGPT's search, it obtains new information only from X posts, not from the Internet.

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🧪 US court ruling backs schools' right to penalize students for AI cheating

A federal court in Massachusetts has backed a school's decision to penalize a student who used AI for homework without disclosure. The case could set an important precedent for how schools handle AI usage.

According to court documents, the Hingham High School student used Grammarly's AI features for a history assignment without acknowledgment. While the school's Turnitin software flagged the violation, the deception was clear even without it: The assignment included AI-generated citations from non-existent books, with references to a fictional author named "Jane Doe."

Insights for you:

• A Massachusetts student used Grammarly, an AI writing tool, for a history term paper without disclosing it and included unchecked AI-generated references from non-existent books.

• The school detected the cheating using plagiarism detection software and disciplined the student with zero points for parts of the assignment, Saturday detention, and a grade reduction from B to C+.

• The parents' appeal of the punishment was unsuccessful, and the court ruled that the school had adequately communicated the rules regarding the use of AI and that the punishment was justified. This strengthens the position of schools in dealing with AI cheating.