Good data access is the biggest difference between AI leaders (61%) and what are politely called “learners” (11%) in this IBM study. Other factors typically considered important turn out to be more similar: use of custom AI vs. out-of-box scenarios (72% vs 33%), following a roadmap (85% vs 72%) and even revenue growth attributable to AI (67% vs 51%). Lots of good info here.
Publicis Groupe-owned ad agency Team One has launched a new tool, Faikcheck, to detect AI deepfakes in images. Users upload media and Faikcheck issues a report on authenticity with a percentage confidence score. Team One is looking at extending this to video.
No need to consent (per your content) – X has self-granted it and beginning next month can use anything you post to train their AI. With just a little rework of ‘terms of service’ verbiage, snap, it’s theirs! Going forward all you need to do is submit, post and display content on or through X’s services, and you’ll have granted world-, non-exclusive, royalty-free license rights to them. Any dispute you or others may have afterwards will be served up to an X-friendly court in Texas.
If you still think that MCP stands for Male Chauvinist Pig, well, the 1970’s want their disco ball back. Today’s hep cats know that MCP stands for Model Context Protocol, a new-but-widely supported standard that lets large language models access structured data as context for their prompts. Early adopters include Salesforce and Adobe, and search platform Algolia is now using it to feed their data to customer-facing real-time AI agents.