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🖼️ Lensa dominates App Store. Hear that? It’s the sound of millions of people posting their AI avatars on IG, TikTok, and Twitter (guilty, but at least we were early to the trend?). Lensa, the app that makes it easy to generate “Magic Avatars” of your face, maintained the #1 spot in the App Store rankings as of Saturday. The results are sometimes great, and often funny. As we mentioned last week, Lensa wasn’t the first product in this space - here’s a good breakdown on how it managed to pull ahead. PSA: if you’re looking for a free option, Justine found one! Drip.art generates a model and allows you to run custom prompts - but the results are lower res / less detailed. 💻 New Twitter Files drop. Journalist Bari Weiss dropped the second installment of Elon Musk’s “Twitter Files” (here’s a recap of last week’s drop). The release showed that Twitter limited the reach of accounts spreading “harmful” content, with employees tagging specific accounts as being “blacklisted” from distribution. This policy seemed to primarily target conservative views (as Musk has publicly stated), though Twitter has not released a full list of which accounts were impacted. Unsurprisingly, the drop has sparked intense debate! Some argue that Twitter has always been transparent about the fact that it restricts the reach of certain content, while others feel that Weiss’s examples are evidence of overreach - and point to the fact that Twitter execs previously claimed that “shadowbanning” wasn’t happening. ⚖️ FTC sues to block Activision acquisition. Microsoft’s $69B deal to buy video game company Activision Blizzard has come under fire from regulators. The FTC filed a lawsuit to block the deal for antitrust reasons, claiming that it would give Microsoft an unfair advantage over competitors - for example, Microsoft could make Activision’s games exclusive to Xbox. Microsoft President Brad Smith responded: “we have complete confidence in our case and welcome the opportunity to present it in court.” what we’re following 👀Last week’s release of ChatGPT has sparked heated debate around one particular use case: homework. Educators and parents are grappling with the fact that it’s now possible for students worldwide to enter a prompt and generate any kind of written output - whether that’s an essay, article, or even a poem. Some are wondering whether this development spells the end of homework. There have long been apps to answer math questions, and now ChatGPT can tackle English, history, coding, and even science! This is convenient for students looking to save time, but more troubling for educators. How can you ensure that any take-home assignment or exam was actually completed by the student and not ChatGPT? OK so I'm usually on the skeptical side of things when it comes to AI stuff but I think chat.openai.com may actually spell the end of writing assignments? Where the hell do educators even go from here? (below: a question I just asked on a midterm, and the AI's response) There are a few of schools (pun intended) of thought about what might happen:
This is a particularly interesting challenge because it feels like this technology “came out of nowhere.” It wasn’t a gradual evolution if you haven’t been studying the space. Overnight, students were able to fully generate a written assignment via AI, and teachers were not prepared (especially considering it’s exam season 😬). Most schools likely don’t have policies around this yet - but they’re surely hurrying to write them now!
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