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If you own an Apple Watch, you might be eligible for part of Apple's cash settlement -- check this list to find out.
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The Switch 2 Nintendo Direct will be a full hour -- here's what we expect will be in it, plus everything else coming with the new console.
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ChatGPT's built-in image generation feature is now available to everyone. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said last week that the company is delaying its rollout to free tier "for a while," because the tool was way more popular than they had expected. But the company made the feature available to free users over the weekend, allowing them to generate images from within ChatGPT and without having to switch to OpenAI's DALL-E generator. Prior to its rollout to the free tier, the tool was only available to Plus, Pro and Team subscribers.
Altman previously said that free users will get a limit of three images per day. Based on our experience trying it out, some accounts are limited to just one a day. Those who find themselves able to generate more than one will still have to wait anywhere between a few minutes and a few hours. One of the tool's most popular uses that we've seen so far is the creation of Ghibli-style images using real-life photos. Users simply have to upload the photo they want to use and then instruct ChatGPT in natural language to create a Ghibli-style version of it. The trend had raised concerns, yet again, about the legality of using copyrighted work as training data for artificial intelligence. It also resurfaced the reaction of Hayao Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli's founder, upon being shown AI-generated animation years ago. "I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself," the director said.
In a tweet, Altman said that the tool could still exhibit erra
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Creatives in the UK are once again speaking out against AI developers accessing copyrighted material. The Society of Authors have published an open letter calling for UK Secretary of State Lisa Nandy to hold Meta accountable for possible copyright infringement regarding its LLM, Llama 3. Signatories of the letter include successful British authors Richard Osman, Kazuo Ishiguro, Val McDermid and Sarah Waters.
A March 20 article in The Atlantic served as the letter's impetus. It reported that Meta had used LibGen, a pirated collection of over 7.5 million books, to train its AI models. Anyone on the internet over the last few weeks has likely seen videos of distraught authors learning that their work is available on the database (and potentially used by Meta without their permission). A lawsuit in the US alleges Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg approved the use of LibGen's data to train its AI. The lawsuit's plaintiffs include writers Sarah Silverman and Ta-Nehisi Coates.
"These cases are shining a light on the unscrupulous behaviour exhibited by global tech companies which seemingly exploit copyright-protected material, safe in the knowledge that they will not be held to account," the Society of Authors' letter stated. "This must change, and global tech companies
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Many of the most popular PDF apps switched to subscriptions, meaning you're functionally paying to be able to use an extremely common file type. If you don't want to pay every month for as long as you need to use PDFs, then replace your subscription to Acrobat with a perpetual license to SwifDoo.
This all-in-one PDF app can edit, annotate, rearrange, scan, and do a whole lot more to any PDF file, and you only pay for it once. It's normally $129, but right now, a SwifDoo Perpetual License is on sale for $29.97.
How to use PDFs without a subscription
SwifDoo is a simple tool. It lets you work with PDFs about as easily as if they were Word docs. You can edit text, add annotations, convert between different file types, or just sign documents. SwifDoo also lets you encrypt PDFs, compress them for easier file transfers, and rearrange pages. The OCR can even recognize text on documents that you couldn't edit before. So all those hard copies lacking an original can finally go digital again.
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 Last week, we covered a report claiming that Apple's book-style foldable iPhone (or "iPhone Fold," as we are provisionally calling it here) will use liquid metal hinges to improve durability and help minimize screen creasing. Today, a Chinese leaker provided more details on the properties of this hinge material that help to clarify why Apple chose it for its first foldable device.
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