Stack Overflow temporarily bans users from sharing responses generated by ChatGPT, pending a ruling in the future; most answers are wrong on closer inspection (James Vincent/The Verge)

Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review:
Alphabet’s DeepMind unveils Sparrow, an AI chatbot that learns from human feedback and searches Google for information to support its claims  —  The lab trained a chatbot to learn from human feedback and search the internet for information to support its claims.

Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review:
OpenAI releases a demo of ChatGPT, a chatbot version of GPT-3 that answers follow-up questions, admits its mistakes, challenges incorrect premises, and more  —  A chatbot version of GPT-3 that admits its mistakes is more transparent than the original.  But it’s still not perfect.

Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar on running the company, growing a SaaS business, content moderation, community satisfaction, Web3, and more  —  Stack Overflow is basically Reddit for developers.  CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar explains how the company moderates its content.

Matt Burgess / Wired:
Pornhub is testing a chatbot that redirects users searching for CSAM to a service where they can get help; the bot intervened ~174K times during the first month  —  Pornhub is trialing a new automated tool that pushes CSAM-searchers to seek help for their online behavior.  Will it work?

James Vincent / The Verge:
Shutterstock partners with OpenAI to begin selling DALL-E 2-generated stock imagery “in the coming months” and launches a Contributor Fund to reimburse creators  —  Will AI image generators kill the stock image industry?  It’s a question asked by many following the rise of text-to-image AI models in recent years.

Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology:
Google, worried about its reputation, is hesitant to release its capable bot LaMDA, but by waiting too long it may cede the market to competitors like ChatGPT  —  The tech giant believes the future of search is conversational.  How did it let OpenAI’s ChatGPT take the lead?  —  Google’s had an awkward week.