The University of Chicago’s Nightshade anti-scraping tool received a quarter of a million downloads in just five days. The tool alters images to fool genAI about their content, leading to “poisoning” the model which will begin to offer irrelevant responses to prompts. It sits alongside Kin.art in the battery of weapons artists can use to defend their intellectual property.

TikTok had previously allowed approved influencers and brands to tag certain products in videos to make them shoppable. It is now experimenting with a new technology that will automatically tag objects in videos. Users will be able to choose to find similar items in TikTok Shop.

CX management platform Sprinklr is introducing “digital twins.” Not your average chatbot, a Sprinklr digital twin is more like an AI-powered employee, able to plan actions, create workflows and make decisions, but at speed and at scale. They are said to be more easily trained than chatbots and can operate within brand policies and guardrails.