Artificial Intelligence

• AI companies want digital content to train their models. RHEI’s new platform lets creators license it to them.
• Meta envisions a future where human creators share the stage with AI content mills

  "We expect these AIs to actually, over time, exist on our platforms, kind of in the same way that accounts do," Hayes said. "They'll have bios and profile pictures and be able to generate and share content powered by AI on the platform…that's where we see all of this going."

  
• An AI VTuber is setting world records on Twitch

  Vedal originally created Neurosama back in 2018 as a bot that would play the rhythm game osu!. They recently revamped her as a full-fledged VTuber with her own cutesy animated model. Basically, at her bones, Neurosama is an advanced chatbot that can play games like Minecraft and converse with viewers.

  
• Chatbot company Character.AI faces lawsuit over 14-year-old’s death

  Character.AI was founded in 2021 by Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, who left Google after it reportedly quashed their attempts to push developing a chatbot. They went on to turn Character.AI into a unicorn, raising $150 million at a $1 billion valuation—and Google was apparently interested in that, because this past August, it hired Shazeer and De Freitas back, plus brought on other members of the Character.AI team, to work in its AI unit Deepmind.