82% of IT pros have already adopted genAI

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Good morning. I hope everyone is enjoying the long weekend. 

However you’re spending it, I hope you are all having a meaningful Memorial Day today. 

In today’s newsletter:

• 📱 Facebook doesn’t make it easy to keep your posts out of its AI training data

• 🏛️ Former OpenAI board members say AI companies and self-governance don’t mix 

• ⌚️ GenAI is coming to IOS 18

• 💻 Survey: 82% of IT pros have already adopted genAI

Meta’s confusing Instagram AI training opt-out

Earlier in May, Meta said it trains its AI models on the posts that its users share on Facebook and Instagram. Meta’s Chief Product Officer Chris Cox said that it is this that gives Meta’s AI such an advantage over the competition. 

If you’re *not cool with the practice, there is a (maybe) way to opt out:

• Open the Instagram app → Navigate to Settings & Privacy → Scroll to the bottom and click “Help.” 

• Click “Help Center” → “About AIs on Instagram” → “Learn about how Meta uses information for generative AI models.”

• Scroll to the bottom. 

Here’s where it gets complicated: Depending on your region, there should be a hyperlinked form called: “Object to Your Information Being Used for AI at Meta.” This form is not available for everyone and requires users to link their Facebook and Instagram accounts. 

• There’s another linked form on that page titled: “Learn more and submit requests here.” 

  • The form allows users to request to delete “any personal information from third parties used for building and improving AI at Meta.” But it requires evidence that a prompt of Instagram’s AI leaked personal information about you. 

I asked Meta why the process is so complicated, and if opting out is even a real option (or will become one) for everybody. They did not respond.

Zoom out: While opting out sounds promising on paper, the process — even if it was straightforward and consistent — would not protect artists.

• As one artist said on Twitter: “My work has been reposted (on Instagram) thousands of times. It will be scraped even if I delete my account” & opt-out.

Former OpenAI board members say AI firms can’t be allowed to self-regulate 

Former OpenAI board members Helen Toner and Tasha McCauley wrote in a recent essay that AI companies cannot be allowed to govern themselves. McCauley Joined the board in 2018 and Toner joined the board in 2021. Both left in 2023, after the board’s failed ouster of resurrected CEO Sam Altman. 

The details: The pair said that, based on their personal experience at OpenAI, “self-governance cannot reliably withstand the pressure of profit incentives.” They called on governments to “assert themselves” with smart regulation, quickly. 

• They said that the company’s unique semi-for-profit structure did not work — “The board’s ability to uphold the company’s mission had become increasingly constrained due to long-standing patterns of behavior exhibited by Altman.” 

• They added that senior company leaders came to the board with concerns about Altman, saying that he created “a toxic culture of lying” and engaged in “behavior [that] can be characterized as psychological abuse.”

Zoom Out: This essay comes on the heels of a mass departure of safety researchers from OpenAI.

• Before his failed ouster, Altman had argued with Toner about a paper she wrote in which she seemed to criticize OpenAI’s approach to safety. 

The deeper view: Sam’s sister Annie has accused him of “sexual, physical, emotional, verbal, financial and technological abuse.”

OpenAI did not return my request for comment.

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GenAI is coming to IOS 18

Apple might have been slow on the genAI uptake, but the company is eager to follow the playbook of its fellow megacap tech peers: Integrate, integrate and integrate some more. 

Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported Sunday that Apple will unveil a whole bunch of genAI integrations and applications at its Worldwide Developer Conference in June (rumors of this have been flying around for months). 

• The core of Apple’s AI strategy, according to Gurman, will revolve around something called “Project Greymatter,” which refers to the integration of AI tools into core apps like Safari, Notes and Photos.

These new AI features will be shipping as a part of IOS 18 and MacOS 15. 

A rundown: Some of the features will include voice memo transcription, AI-powered custom emoji generation and an AI-overhauled Siri. Apple didn’t respond to my request for comment. 

My take: I’ve been saying for months that if Apple can integrate competitive genAI systems (for those who want them) into IOS, it will likely destroy all the competition for the simple sake of ease of use and access. Why pay for Otter.AI if your iPhone has free voice memo transcription on-device? Why pay for GPT-4 if your iPhone’s on-device AI Siri is just as good?

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🌎 The Broad View:

• Even in the cold, heat pumps are still better than gas furnaces (Wired).

• FTC chair Lina Khan said that AI models might be in violation of anti-trust laws (The Hill).

• WhatsApp fact-checking tools are failing the test during India’s elections (Rest of World).

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Survey: 82% of IT pros have already adopted genAI

A survey of IT professionals shared with The Deep View by IT management company Atera found that generative AI copilots might be the solution IT folks have been waiting for. 

The results: The report found that 82% of respondents have already made AI an “integral part” of their daily workflows; 85% said that the widespread incorporation of AI across their workplace would make a “positive impact.” 

• 77% of respondents believe that the “growing adoption of AI will increase job opportunities in IT.” 

The company surveyed 503 IT professionals in corporations across the U.S. 

AI, IT & the job boom: Atera co-founder and CEO Gil Pekelman agrees with the idea that the integration of AI will increase, rather than decrease, job opportunities in the field of IT. He told me that there are two main reasons for this. 

• One, there are simply not enough people working in IT. The result of this shortage of IT talent, Pekelman said, is that each individual IT worker is under tons of stress & pressure. 

• Two, much of the IT grind is made up of “boring, repetitive work,” according to Pekelman. 

“There's more work to do than people available,” he told me. “They're not going to lose their job. They're just going to do the interesting things that today they're not able to do. There's no danger here to their jobs at all. And I think they realize it in their bones. They know how their life is.”

Zoom out: At the same time, a January study by GitClear (that examined 150 million lines of code) found that the use of AI coding assistants has increased “code churn” and decreased “code reuse,” suggesting an AI-driven, downward trend in code quality. 

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