AI's New Reality Takes Shape: Perplexity & Google Data + Facebook AI Labeling + Regulation in CA

Who are the winners and losers from this week in AI? Learn how Perplexity, Google, Facebook, and the state of California are handling (or not handling) the latest developments in tech.
In this week's episode, Amir Shevat and Emil Michael join Yaniv to discuss:
- License to Crawl: The ethics and practical implications of Perplexity AI ignoring the robots.txt protocol.
- Corpus Bride: How Google's data licensing deals for AI grounding may become the new industry standard.
- Not So Binary: After backlash from artists and photographers, Facebook change their AI content labeling rules.
- The Ungovernable Machine: Why most government efforts to regulate AI will fail, including recent proposals in California.
Tune in for a wide-ranging discussion of the philosophical, technological, and regulatory challenges of AI.
00:00 Intro
01:20 On Today's Show
03:33 Perplexity AI and Robots.txt Controversy
08:00 AI's Impact on Content Creation
11:41 Facebook Walks Back AI Labelling
17:38 Google's Data Licensing
27:14 California's Attempt to Regulate AI
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[@markmonfort29]

Love this topic and it's something i thought about back when NYT was suing OpenAI. I initially thought smart contracts run on a blockchain to help govern micropayments for each scrape and tying that to whitelisted robots.txt but that doesn't stop anything as it's more a gentleman's agreement. Next level would be firewalls and server level Configs for IP based restrictions...
In a world that is much more digital, we'll need this

[@kuwaitnights457]

I love love your podcasts. Literally I have learnt so much and been following you from the beginning!

[@ChrisSaad]

Thanks so much!!

[@JeffreyBenjaminWhite]

found you here, accessible, interesting, informative. will follow.

[@startup-podcast]

Thanks Jeffrey, glad you enjoyed it!

[@yakamo]

so many ads i tapped out of this video.

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