A Tech Worker Is Selling A Children’s Book He Made Using AI. Professional Illustrators Are Pissed.

Ammaar Reshi told BuzzFeed News that he has received death threats and messages encouraging self-harm on social media.

Ammaar Reshi, 28, has been fascinated by technology since he was a child. “I was always curious, and my dad let me play with his computer when I was 5 years old,” he said. He grew up in Pakistan before his family moved to the UK, where Reshi studied computer science in London. A job at Palantir Technologies led Reshi to Palo Alto, California, and since 2020 he’s worked at fintech company Brex, where he’s now a design manager.

When a raft of generative AI tools started to hit the market over the last few months, Reshi began tinkering with them. Earlier this month, he had the idea to make a book for his best friends’ kid, who was born this year, using AI. “I said I was going to take a weekend to try to put this out there,” he recalled. Read More

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Google execs warn company’s reputation could suffer if it moves too fast on AI-chat technology

  • Google employees asked executives at an all-hands meeting whether the AI chatbot that’s going viral represents a “missed opportunity” for the company.
  • Google’s Jeff Dean said the company has much more “reputational risk” in providing wrong information and thus is moving “more conservatively than a small startup.”
  • CEO Sundar Pichai suggested that the company has chat products underway for 2023.
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