📜 Google sued for AI data theft

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Here is what's on tap for today:

• 🗞️ Microsoft and KPMG mint $2 billion AI partnership

• 🗞️ Google sued for using unauthorized data to train its AI

• 🛠 Chatbase: Create a custom AI chatbot for your data

• 💡 Turn any image into a detailed prompt with Midjourney

• 🗞️ Bing search is increasing click-through rates to websites

🗞️ News

Microsoft Joins with KPMG in $2 Billion AI Partnership

Microsoft and KPMG have announced a $2 billion partnership designed to permeate all areas of KPMG's business sectors including audit, tax, and advisory services.

The extensive initiative also includes training KPMG's significant global workforce of 265,000 employees on these innovative tools. The collaboration targets a promising slice of the rapidly growing $98 billion generative AI enterprise market.

Key takeaways:

• KPMG is plunking down a cool $2 billion over the next five years with Microsoft to co-develop AI and cloud tools

• This strategy will shake up all of KPMG's business units, including audit, tax, advisory, and more

• KPMG's hefty roster of 265,000 global employees will get a training glow-up on how to leverage AI and the new tools

• Consultants will also be able to test proposals for potential outcomes — think of it like peering into a digital crystal ball

Why This Matters: The Microsoft-KPMG partnership aims to redefine enterprise business operations by setting a new benchmark in AI integration, driving the industry towards enhanced efficiency and effectiveness.

Google Faces Lawsuit Over Alleged User Data Theft

Google is in the crosshairs of a class-action lawsuit for allegedly gathering data from millions of unsuspecting internet users to train its AI tools.

The complaint implicates Google, Alphabet, and DeepMind in using internet data, even copyrighted material, to drive their AI offerings like chatbot Bard, escalating the scrutiny on big tech's data practices.

Here’s what we know:

• Google is embroiled in a legal battle, accused of using unauthorized data to train their AI products, including the chatbot Bard

• Google's recent privacy policy update – making clear it uses public info to train its AI models – has fueled this fiery lawsuit

• The lawsuit demands a temporary halt on Google's generative AI tools' commercial use and development, plus financial compensation

• Google's data handling for AI training stands in stark contrast to its core search engine use, leading to calls for an opt-out option for users

Our Take: This news emphasizes the critical importance of ethical data use in AI. It serves as a reminder to scrutinize AI's training data source so you know if your data is being harvested.

🛠 Tools

Chatbase: Create a Custom AI Chatbot for Your Data

Imagine having a chatbot that not only speaks your customers' language but is also steeped in your own unique data. Introducing Chatbase, a bespoke ChatGPT chatbot that you can train to answer any questions about your data.

How Chatbase Serves Up a Custom ChatGPT Chatbot

Chatbase offers key features that can turn boring FAQs or knowledge bases into interactive experiences for customers or employees:

• Upload Multiple Files: Toss in your documents, and watch Chatbase fetch important data in no time. 🐾

• Crawl Website Content: Chatbase combs through your website content, scooping up every bit of valuable data to feed your chatbot. 🦴

• Embedded Website Widget: Chatbase can connect your customers to your chatbot right on your website. 🎾

• API Access: Chatbot also has API access so you can place it wherever you need it. 🐕‍🦺

• ChatGPT-4 Capable: Chatbase is ChatGPT-4 capable, which means your chatbot is smart and adaptable. 🏆

But remember, while Chatbase lets you upload multiple files like a champ, it may struggle with chunky datasets. Still, it’s a great tool for answering customer and employee questions. Visit Chatbase for more!

💡 Tactics

Turn Any Image Into a Detailed Prompt With Midjourney’s “Describe” Command

Discover the 'describe' feature, your loyal guide in the Midjourney realm. This command can transform any image into four compelling prompts.

This powerful tool is your fast-track ticket to generating attention-grabbing, precise prompts based on images you love.

Key Takeaways:

• Utilize the 'describe' feature in Midjourney to transform images into vivid prompts, making your creative process more fluid

• Enhance your prompts by adding the original image as a reference, giving Midjourney a strong visual foundation to draw from

• Fine-tune the effectiveness of your prompts by playing with weights, stylized values, and chaos values, offering a unique blend of creativity

Follow These Steps:

1. Upload Your Image: Choose the image you want to describe from your computer, hit forward slash describe in Discord, select your image, and upload it 🎩

2. Choose Your Prompts: You'll see four prompts appear below your image. Pick your favorite one and hit submit. Try this for each prompt and compare the results. 🧐

3. Add Original Image as Reference: Not thrilled with the results? You can add the original image as a reference for your prompts.

To do this, hit the little plus button near the prompt box, select your image, and upload it to Discord. Copy its image address and paste it into your prompts. You'll start to see the results getting closer to the original image. 🔍

4. Adjust the Weight of Reference Image: If you want your reference image to hold more influence, add weight to it using "--iw" followed by a number between 0.5 (less important than the prompt) and 2 (twice as important as any words you use). 🏋️

5. Tweak Stylize & Chaos Values: You can tweak these values to add variety and adjust how closely Midjourney follows your prompts.

Stylize value goes up to 1000 for maximum creative freedom, and chaos goes up to 100 for maximum variety in your grid. 🔄

6. Review & Repeat: If you're still not satisfied or just want to explore more options, hit reroll on the describe feature to get four more similar but distinct prompts. 🔄

For more information on this tactic, check out the full video tutorial.

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🗞️ Small Snacks

Bing’s search chatbot is increasing click-throughs to websites rather than stealing traffic, says Microsoft VP

Shutterstock expands deal with OpenAI to build generative AI tools

Experiments show AI could help to audit smart contracts, but not yet

Claude 2 is out—how does Anthropic’s AI chatbot compare to ChatGPT and Bard?

🎁 Free Gifts

Craft the Perfect ChatGPT Prompts with our free prompt engineering cheat sheet and training video to create the perfect sequence prompts that work every time.

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