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Alpaca Sex Is Even Weirder Than You Think
Just in case you’d like to know: Alpaca sex is weird, biologically speaking. In a new paper this month, scientists have presented evidence that male alpacas impregnate their partners by thrusting their penises all the way up inside the female’s uterus—a tactic not documented with any other mammal species to date. The research was led…
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Pulitzer Winner Michael Chabon Sues Meta for Allegedly Using His Copyrighted Material to Train AI
Authors are suing Meta for allegedly using their works to train its Llama artificial intelligence software, according to a class action lawsuit filed on Tuesday. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon is among the plaintiffs listed in the lawsuit, which accuses Meta of infringing on their intellectual property. Meta released its Llama AI language tool in…
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Anti-Piracy Group Takes Massive AI Training Dataset ‘Books3′ Offline
One of the most prominent pirated book repositories used for training AI, Books3, has been kicked out from the online nest it had been roosting in for nearly three years. Rights-holders have been at war with online pirates for decades, but artificial intelligence is like oil seeping into copyright law’s water. The two simply do…
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Apple Is Reportedly Making Fast Progress on Its Own ‘Apple GPT’
The AI gold rush is showing no signs of slowing down. As ChatGPT continues to enamour the world with its strings of relatively coherent text, Apple is looking for its piece of the pie by developing its own artificial intelligence engine. Bloomberg’s ever-reliable Mark Gurman reported today that Apple has constructed its own internal infrastructure upon…