Today's Hallucination HQSpotify Quietly Removes 50 Million Songs Nobody Was Enjoying AnywaySpotify has purged over 50 million AI-generated tracks from its recommendation system in the past year — roughly the musical equivalent of emptying a skip. The platform has also tweaked its algorithm to favour human artists, on the apparently controversial premise that people prefer music made by people. Whether this improves your Discover Weekly or merely replaces algorithmic slop with algorithmic curation remains, as ever, an open question. Source: The Verge
OpenAI Acquires a Biotech Startup, Names Things After Dead ScientistsOpenAI has acquired Orchestra Bio, folding its team and technology into Rosalind — its AI model for life sciences research, named after Rosalind Franklin, the crystallographer whose work on DNA was famously credited to other people. The Rosalind Workbench tool helps researchers plan experiments and analyse results. OpenAI's pivot into biotech is either a logical expansion of AI's scientific potential or a company that got bored and wandered into a laboratory. Probably both. Source: TechCrunch
Meta Built a Sharing Feature That Shared Rather More Than IntendedMeta Muse, the company's AI assistant, has been suspended from allowing users to share conversations after it emerged that doing so exposed private personal and business information to unintended recipients. Meta is now investigating. In fairness, "share everything with everyone" has always been Meta's founding philosophy — they've simply applied it more literally than usual this time. Source: Ars Technica
Netflix Made a Documentary About AI; It Turns Out Documentaries Can Hallucinate TooHugging Face co-founder Clément Delangue has warned viewers not to take Netflix's documentary AI Gone Rogue — which covers an alleged OpenAI hack and features Delangue himself — at face value, calling it "full doomer mode" and factually inaccurate. There's a particular irony in an AI documentary being flagged for misinformation, though at this point it feels less like irony and more like industry tradition. Source: TechCrunch
Google Wants Gemini to Know Your Entire Life Before You've Even ParkedGoogle is bringing Personal Intelligence to Gemini in Android Auto, meaning your car's AI will now have access to your Gmail, Calendar, Maps, Photos, YouTube, and Search history. The idea is that you can ask Gemini about your day without lifting a finger — which is genuinely useful, assuming you're comfortable with your vehicle knowing more about your schedule than your closest friends do. Google describes this as personalisation. Others might use different words. Source: The Verge
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