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Sports Illustrated allegedly churned out stories using AI
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Sports Illustrated allegedly churned out stories using AI

Credits: Deadline.com
An extensive article on the Futurism website recently sparked controversy among reporters at a prominent American media outlet. The article claimed that numerous articles on the Sports Illustrated website were produced using artificial intelligence. It also alleged that the contributor profiles for many of these pieces, including the author photos, were created by AI. According to Futurism's investigation, these images were sourced from websites that offer AI-generated visuals.
The Sports Illustrated Union, identifying itself as the unified editorial team of the publication and part of the New Guild of New York, released a statement on social media in response.
Our response to today’s story from @futurism reporting that The Arena Group has published AI-written stories by fake people under the Sports Illustrated name:
— Sports Illustrated Union (@si_union)
9:07 PM • Nov 27, 2023
When Futurism inquired about the authors with AI-generated images, Sports Illustrated reportedly removed these profiles from its website without providing an explanation. An anonymous source from the magazine, quoted by Futurism, mentioned that artificial intelligence played a role in creating some content, contrary to official denials.
Sports Illustrated acknowledged that the disputed articles were produced by AdVon Commerce, a third-party company. AdVon Commerce claimed that the content was written and edited by real people, although the writers were instructed to use pseudonyms, a practice Sports Illustrated does not support.
The magazine stated, "We are removing the content while our internal investigation continues and have since terminated our partnership with AdVon Commerce."
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LLM Security: The Promise and Peril of Large Language Models

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Large Language Models (LLMs) like Claude 2, GPT-4, and Llama 2 offer significant potential in enhancing human capabilities and transforming industries, but they also come with considerable risks and vulnerabilities.
Businesses must address these before deploying LLMs to ensure responsible use. The key risks include:
Misalignment: LLMs may not align with business goals due to poorly defined objectives or mismatched training data. Mitigation involves clear goal definition, rigorous testing, and continuous performance monitoring.
Malicious Inputs: LLMs are vulnerable to attacks through prompt engineering, data poisoning, or compromised components. Mitigating these risks requires treating LLMs as untrusted, limiting their access, and ensuring human oversight.
Harmful Outputs & Sensitive Information Disclosure: LLMs can produce unsafe outputs or disclose confidential information. Companies should rigorously review outputs, validate them, and limit data access.
Excessive Agency: Giving LLMs too much autonomy is risky. Limiting their tools and permissions and requiring human oversight for impactful actions is crucial.
Unintended Biases: Biases in LLMs can arise from flawed training data. Companies should curate training data, apply bias mitigation techniques, and monitor for biases.
To deploy LLMs safely and securely, businesses should implement rigorous testing, vet third-party components, limit LLM permissions, validate outputs, and educate users about potential risks.
Continuously monitoring for emerging risks and communicating transparently about limitations are also vital.
A layered, defense-in-depth approach combining technical controls with human oversight and validation can help businesses benefit from LLMs while avoiding pitfalls.
FUNDING NEWS 💸
Together, Pika Labs, Cradle, PhysicsX raise funding; Tola Capital closes new $230M fund
Together.ai, a startup in open source generative AI and AI model development, has secured $102.5 million in Series A funding, led by Kleiner Perkins with Nvidia and Emergence Capital participating. The funds will expand its cloud platform for developers to build on open and custom AI models, says CEO Vipul Ved Prakash.
Pika, a startup developing an AI platform for creating videos from captions and images, announced a $55 million funding round. Led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, the round included Homebrew, Conviction Capital, SV Angel, Ben's Bites, and angel investors like Quora's Adam D’Angelo and ex-GitHub CEO Nat Friedman.
Biotech and AI startup Cradle, focusing on generative protein design, secured $24 million in investment and major clients. Emerging from stealth over a year ago, Cradle innovatively treats amino acid sequences in proteins as an "alien programming language," differentiating its approach in the AI biotech sector.
PhysicsX, emerging from stealth with $32 million in funding, has developed an AI platform for simulations in engineering fields like automotive, aerospace, and materials science manufacturing. The Series A round, led by General Catalyst, includes diverse backers and will be used for business development and platform enhancement.
Tola Capital, specializing in AI-enabled enterprise software, has raised its largest fund yet, securing $230 million for its third fund. The fund is focussed on investing in AI and enterprise software startups and expects to fund about 30 such startups from this fund.This fund raising contributes to a recent surge in venture capital fundraising, joining other firms like NXTP, Saviu Ventures, and Founders Fund in securing significant capital.
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