🤖 Midjourney ends free access

Today's AI News lineup: 🥊

• 🤖 Midjourney throws in the towel on free access: Tackling the ethical kerfuffle

• 🇮🇹 Italy Gives ChatGPT the Boot (Temporarily) 🚫

Read time: 3 punchy minutes 🕒

🤖 Midjourney Cancels Free Access

Midjourney, the undisputed champ of AI text-to-image generators, recently threw in the towel on its free trial version. Why? An onslaught of viral deepfakes jabbing at their tech. 🥊

Here's a quick rundown of the deepfakes that packed a punch:

1. Pope Francis rockin' a swanky white puffer (see below)

2. Former U.S. Prez Donald caught in the ring with the fuzz, just as rumors of his impending arrest surfaced [view 👀]

3. Folks sharing faux snaps of historical events like the "Great Cascadia” [view 👀]

The big question: Are deepfakes fair game or foul play? Companies like Midjourney and Playground AI can bob and weave around deepfakes by KO'ing free tiers, but that ship may have sailed. 🚢

Our ringside advice: School your friends, fam, and anyone within earshot on the new reality—we can't trust images as 'purely authentic' on the web anymore. Welcome to the new normal, folks! 📸

🍝 Italy Gives ChatGPT the Boot

ChatGPT is facing a not-so-bella situation in Italy! 🍝 The country's data protection boss slammed the brakes and banned the chat bot after concerns about data collection and a saucy data breach on March 20. 🚨

Here's what's got Italy's pasta boiling:

• 🍅 A data leak that put users' chat history and payment info on the chopping block (OpenAI says they patched it up, though)

• 🍅 Some raised eyebrows over OpenAI's data hoarding habits

• 🍅 A missing age check system that could expose bambinos to some R-rated robot talk 🤖

If OpenAI doesn't clear the air in 20 days, they might face a spicy fine—$21 mil or 4% of their yearly revenue. 💸 Italy is the first to put ChatGPT on ice, but the rest of the world's getting antsy about AI privacy, too. Stay tuned, amici! 🌍

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