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// (More) life on Mars

// FTC v. OpenAI

// Bored Apes

// AI goes mad

The search for life on Mars takes a new turn with NASA's latest findings

"New evidence suggests that organic molecules, the building blocks for life, are not bound to a particular corner of Mars. Instead, they might be found all over the place.

In a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, NASA Perseverance mission scientists announced that signatures for several types of organic molecules were present in rocks along the crater floor where the rover has been exploring Mars."

// Inverse »

FTC opens investigation into OpenAI over misleading statements

"The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has opened an investigation into OpenAI on claims it has run afoul of consumer protection laws by putting personal reputations and data at risk, the strongest regulatory threat to the Microsoft-backed startup yet.

The FTC this week sent a 20-page demand for records about how OpenAI — the maker of generative artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT — addresses risks tied to its AI models."

// Reuters »

ApeCoin crashes to all-time low as Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT prices sink | Decrypt

The sound of silence? Researchers demonstrate people hear it

"In recent weeks, pressure in the NFT space has weighed on prominent collections of profile pictures (PFPs) like the Bored Ape Yacht Club. And that stress may have spilled over to ApeCoin (APE) too.

The crypto token associated with Yuga Labs' namesake collection of 10,000 Bored Ape NFTs has fallen 15% over the past 14 days, scraping past an all-time low of $1.85 on Friday, according to CoinGecko."

// Decrypt »

AI loses its mind after being trained on AI-generated data

"AI's kryptonite might just be... AI.

In a fascinating new paper, scientists at Rice and Stanford University found that feeding AI-generated content to AI models seems to cause their output quality to erode. Train generative AI models — large language models and image generators both included — enough AI-spun stuff, it seems, and this ouroboros-like self-consumption will break the model's digital brain.

Or, according to these scientists, it will drive the model 'MAD.'"

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