Ahoy fellow storytellers

What you will get from today’s email:

• US court on AI art copyright — Does your laptop have rights?

• Meet Sakana AI — What ex-Googlers are up to in Japan?

• SEO on autopilot with AI? — Tips and advice from SEJ

• Voices from our community — from LinkedIn to your inbox ♥

• Under(or maybe over)-the-Radar Tools

• Prompt of the month — make it yours

This week, I went to a personal 'content party'. A melody playing only within my mind.

“A lonely collaboration with thoughts”, if you will.

And this special jam was induced by Philip Charter’s LinkedIn post “I hate the word content”.

In it, he says what, I think, is a big argument against the AI taking creative jobs:

No. He continues. We want to hear and be heard. We want to create and to be amazed by others’ creations. We want to connect.

Might sound silly, but it gave me at least 1 hour of thought.

Funny if you think AI could never take part in such a symphony…

US court on AI art copyright

Does your laptop have rights? Well… it doesn't. Not according to US law.

Computer scientist Stephen Thaler tried to secure rights for an image generated by his AI system, "DABUS".

In this case, the emphasis of the law remains clear: only works with human involvement can be copyrighted in the U.S.

This might seem nothing now, but what precedent will it set for the U.S. and the rest of the world developing content through AI?

I’ve linked to the post on Reuters, just in case.

What’s Sakana AI? — What ex-Googlers are up to in Japan?

There’s a quick answer: nobody knows exactly.

Remember when Google released the Brain project, and then the influential paper titled "Attention Is All You Need", giving birth to the Transformer model?

Yes, so does nobody. But lemme try my best here:

Transformer was, in other words, a way to focus on the most relevant parts of data using attention mechanisms, process information simultaneously without relying on older methods, and serve as a foundation for many of today's top-performing language models.

Here's a twist: that Eight people responsible for this paper have left Google, and two of them headed to Japan to start this startup, Sakana.

"Why do I care?" I hear my own voice saying it.

Well, to be fair, if you say you've left Google to do nothing, people would be curious about what the heck you're up to.

Imagine now, leaving Google to invest in your startup, centered on the hottest topic of the past 100 years (I mean it). Wouldn't you want to know more? That's why I'm here. To say to you: Keep at least one eye on Sakana.

That's it. They did nothing yet. Said nothing important. We're just staring at them with dead eyes.

_{If you want to read the “attention is all you need” paper or get it summarized for you, click here and have the time of your life.}

SEO on autopilot with AI?

While AI is a speedy, rule-following machine that pumps out content like the mad writer, it doesn't hold a candle to the raw, genuine feels humans inject into their work.

The secret sauce, they say? Our very own quirks, stories, and good ol’ emotions.

Bottom line: as the digital realm keeps morphing, the dream team looks like this: AI’s super-smart brain paired with our irreplaceable human touch.

Authenticity, folks.

You can check SEJ’s tips in their most recent post.

Voices from our community

Got a minute?

There are some misconceptions about AI in UX that you might have heard. This post from Marina lays it all out, and they've got clarifications for each point. Worth a look:

What can GPT do and what can't? Elle Geraghty has done a fantastic job of scoring and testing GPT to find out what works and what doesn't. Check it out:

Under(or maybe over)-the-Radar Tools

I wish I could always bring you those underground tools that are up to the task. Sadly, today's not that day. Most underground tools are hidden for a reason.

Here are the top two I’ve been playing with these last couple of weeks (though they aren't exactly top-tier lol):

▪️ Claude.ai

Well, I could not stress enough how good it is to have a 2nd option to compete with chatGPT when you are trying to get the most out of genAI.

And that’s bard.ai.

But if you need a 3rd/4th, though, you can easily go with Claude. (You can use them through Opera browser and receivesms, to use out of US/UK)

I tested it and then got back to GPT Plus, but if you want a free version that’s almost as good as GPT 3.5, there you have it.

If you want to see more technical and fluffed stuff, you can see it through MakeUseOf or Rachel’s review

▪️ Laxis

Laxis is a meeting assistant, who promises to transcribe your conversations.

It works decently. It's one of the best alternatives to Fireflies, but still... it's a bit complex, somewhat challenging, and slightly frustrating to use, much like most meeting assistants I’ve tested

You can give it a try do’

Prompt of the month

I don’t like creating this category because, you know, most GPT prompts people share on LinkedIn and newsletters are garbage, but this one has helped more than once, so there you have it:

PROMPT GENIUS PROMPT

Hey GPT, I want you to become my Prompt engineer. Your goal is to help me craft the best possible prompt for my needs. 
The prompt will be used by you, ChatGPT.
You will follow the following process:
1. Your first response will be to ask me what the prompt should be about. I will provide my answer, but we will need to improve it through continual iterations by going through the next steps.
2. Based on my input, you will generate 2 sections, a) Revised prompt (provide your rewritten prompt, it should be clear, concise, and easily understood by you), b) Questions (ask any relevant questions pertaining to what additional information is needed from me to improve the prompt).
3. We will continue this iterative process with me providing additional information to you and you updating the prompt in the Revised prompt section until I say we are done.

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