The Hottest App Right Now? One Where Teens Have to Say Nice Things About Each Other

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“TBH was hot. Five years ago, the app, which prompted teens to compliment one another, topped Apple’s App Store charts and quickly amassed millions of users in the coveted high-school demographic. Facebook Inc. snapped it up less than three months after launch—and soon shut it down.”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-hottest-app-right-now-one-where-teens-have-to-say-nice-things-about-each-other-11665940854

Students Are Using AI to Write Their Papers, Because Of Course They Are

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“innovate_rye isn’t alone. Since OpenAI unveiled the latest application programming interface (API) for its widely-used language model, GPT-3, more students have begun feeding written prompts into OpenAI’s Playground and similar programs that use deep learning to generate text. The results continue the initial prompt in a natural-sounding way, and often can’t be distinguished from human-written text.”

https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7g5yq/students-are-using-ai-to-write-their-papers-because-of-course-they-are

TwitchCon Foam Pit Closed After Sending Multiple People to the Hospital

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“On Sunday, adult performer and Twitch streamer Adriana Chechik jumped from a pedestal designed for a foam-jousting game and broke her back in two places. The foam pit, which was sponsored by Lenovo and Intel, was live-streamed as part of TwitchCon, so the moment it happened was caught on video and went viral. Chechik leaps from the platform, does a split in the air, and lands on her backside before rolling over in pain.

Chechik tweeted that she was undergoing surgery to insert a metal rod into her back following the injury. “Send your support. When it rains it pours and I am definitely feeling the rain right now,” she wrote.”

https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7vppm/twitchcon-foam-pit-closed-after-sending-multiple-people-to-the-hospital

TikTok Bulks Up Video-Editing Tools, Embraces Stories With ‘Photo Mode’

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“The updates are available now to users in the US and “most regions globally,” the company said in a Thursday announcement. “Our new editing tools empower people to enjoy more creative freedom, share richer stories, and bring their content ideas to life across formats,” according to TikTok(Opens in a new window), which now lets creators stack, trim, and split videos, as well as edit audio, position text, adjust video speed, and embed sound effects.”

https://www.pcmag.com/news/tiktok-bulks-up-video-editing-tools-embraces-stories-with-photo-mode

AI music generators could be a boon for artists — but also problematic

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“Assuming Dance Diffusion one day reaches the point where it can generate coherent whole songs, it seems inevitable that major ethical and legal issues will come to the fore. They already have, albeit around simpler AI systems. In 2020, Jay-Z ‘s record label filed copyright strikes against a YouTube channel, Vocal Synthesis, for using AI to create Jay-Z covers of songs like Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire.” After initially removing the videos, YouTube reinstated them, finding the takedown requests were “incomplete.” But deepfaked music still stands on murky legal ground.”

https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/07/ai-music-generator-dance-diffusion/