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Wednesday’s top story: OpenAI has re-launched its advanced voice feature after actress Scarlett Johanssen accused them of stealing her voice when they originally launched it in May, forcing a swift takedown of the feature.

🌤️ This Morning on AI Tool Report

1. 🌟 OpenAI’s voice feature is back!

2. 📃 How to create AI-generated documentation in seconds

3. 📢 Microsoft demands AI fraud laws

4. 🔓 How to unlock the power of safe and reliable AI

5. 📊How to advertise on Instagram using ChatGPT

6. 🔥 Perplexity shares ad revenue

7. ❤️ AI friend: Cure for loneliness?

Read Time: 5 minutes

STOCK MARKETS

As anticipated AI stocks continue to show momentum to the downside. NVIDIA has dropped over 35% since the all-time high printed in June. Investors are nervous about the release of the new Federal Funds rate. Learn more.

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VOICE

🌟 OpenAI’s voice feature is back!

Our Report: OpenAI has re-released its GPT-4o-powered Advanced Voice Mode feature (which it originally launched in May, but took down after it was accused of using actress Scarlett Johanssen’s voice without her permission for one of its pre-set voices, Sky) to a small set of ChatGPT Plus users so they can test the hyperrealistic voice feature.

🔑 Key Points:

• The advanced voice feature is more capable than the existing voice feature as it “offers more natural, real-time conversations, allows you to interrupt anytime, and senses and responds to your emotions.”

• It has four preset voices—Juniper, Breeze, Cove, and Ember—which were built using paid actors (the Sky voice is not available!), it can’t impersonate voices, and it “will block outputs that differ from the pre-set voices.”

• The chosen few ChatGPT Plus users will get a notification in the ChatGPT app, followed by an email with instructions, and OpenAI will “add more people on a rolling basis,” with plans for all Plus users to have it by the fall.

🤔 Why you should care: The advanced voice feature was actually meant to launch in June, but OpenAI delayed it by a month to “improve the model’s ability to detect and refuse certain content,” and is slowly rolling the feature out to make the voice mode “safer and more enjoyable for everyone,” which is perhaps a move designed to quieten mounting speculation about its prioritization of “shiny product launches” over safety, as many ex-employees have testified.

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REGULATION

📢 Microsoft demands AI fraud laws

Our Report: Microsoft has called on the US government for a more comprehensive and enforceable law to crack down on AI-generated deepfakes and protect the public against fraud, abuse, and manipulation, especially during election time.

🔑 Key Points:

• Microsoft President—Brad Smith—believes law enforcement needs a “legal framework” to charge the perpetrators of AI-generated fraud and prevent cyber-criminals from “using technology to steal from everyday Americans.”

• He’s also pushing for a law that makes AI companies label AI-generated content (like Meta’s “Made with AI”) to help the public “better understand whether the content is AI-generated or manipulated.”

• Microsoft thinks the US government needs to move now to “safeguard elections, thwart scams, and protect people from online abuse” as they’re not keeping up with AI fraud and manipulation.

🤔 Why you should care: While Microsoft’s plea will not be enough to make policymakers move any quicker, it establishes their position on the matter and puts pressure on other tech giants—like OpenAI, Google, and Apple—to do the same as “the private sector has a responsibility to implement safeguards that prevent the misuse of AI.”

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Wednesday’s Prompt: How to advertise on Instagram using ChatGPT

Type this prompt into ChatGPT:

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PUBLISHING

🔥 Perplexity shares ad revenue

• Following weeks of plagiarism accusations, AI search engine start-up, Perplexity, has launched a “Publishers’ Program” to share ad revenue with its publishing partners including Time, Der Fortune, and Entrepreneur.

• Under the program, when Perplexity shows content from these publishers (in response to a search query), they’ll get a share of the ad revenue, plus a paid-for subscription to its Enterprise tier and developer tools.

• The revenue share scheme will be consistent across all publishers on the program (but initial partners will get more “favorable terms”) and is—according to Perplexity—“a much better revenue split than Google, which is zero.”

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WEARABLES

❤️ AI friend: Cure for loneliness? 

• After disappointing AI wearable releases—namely the Rabbit R1 and Humane’s AI Pin—Avi Schiffmann (who built an award-winning pandemic tracker) is building a new wearable ‘AI companion’, called ‘Friend.’

• ‘Friend’ isn’t for productivity, it's to cure loneliness: Users can talk to it, it connects to their mobile via Bluetooth and listens to conversations, and it sends proactive messages (like wishing them luck for an interview).

• Expected to ship in January, users can wear ‘Friend’ like a necklace so it’s easy to talk to, and Schiffmann believes it will create better emotional connections than other, similar tools from Replika or Character AI.

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