Meta AI and Papers with Code unveil Galactica, an open source LLM for generating literature reviews, wiki articles, lecture notes, and more on scientific topics (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)

Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review:
Meta AI and Papers with Code pull Galactica, a large language model to generate scientific text, days after its launch, amid criticism about incorrect results  —  Galactica was supposed to help scientists.  Instead, it mindlessly spat out biased and incorrect nonsense.

John Herrman / New York Magazine:
An in-depth look at AI image-creation tools like Imagen, DALL-E 2, and Midjourney; Midjourney users are making concept art for clients and using stock art less  —  How we work — even think — changes when we can instantly command convincing images into existence.

Sharon Goldman / VentureBeat:
OpenAI releases DALL-E API in public beta, letting developers integrate DALL-E into their apps and products; the API is priced per image  —  Get ready, developers: Today, OpenAI released the hotly anticipated DALL-E API in public beta, which means developers can now integrate DALL-E directly into their apps and products.

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Microsoft plans to integrate DALL-E 2 with the newly announced Microsoft Designer app and Image Creator tool in Bing and Microsoft Edge  —  Microsoft is making a major investment in DALL-E 2, OpenAI’s AI-powered system that generates images from text, by bringing it to first-party apps and services.

Chloe Xiang / VICE:
Text-to-image generation systems like DALL-E and Midjourney use datasets built by scrapping images without explicit permission and it’s not easy to opt out  —  In one stark example of how sensitive images can end up powering these AI tools, a user found a medical image in the LAION dataset …

Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review:
Q&A with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on why DALL-E 2 made such an impact, the lessons from its success about AI’s next decade, what DALL-E means for society, and more  —  Three things the groundbreaking generative model taught OpenAI’s CEO.  —  Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO …