TikTok Synthetic Avatars, Google Cloning Character.AI and Weird Stuff in Enterprise AI

Synthetic Content just got a shot in the arm.

Hey Everyone,

I hope you are enjoying your summer. Apparently it’s not just Anthropic and Google Gemini that are destined to integrate their products into Apple Intelligence, but Meta (failed) and Perplexity are pitching their products as well to Apple.

All Praise Plagiarism Engines

The only problem? Meta isn’t an AI company, though they make many LLMs, and Perplexity doesn’t really have its own killer LLM, but rather is more in the business of search. Platformer recently going as far as sawing Perplexity is a plagiarism engine. So what if Perplexity, OpenAI and Anthropic are not respecting blocking"robots.txt," a widely accepted standard meant to determine which parts of a site are allowed to be crawled.

Speaking of plagiarism engines, I really like genspark.ai.

Synthetic AI is going to get Wild in Late 2024/Early 2025

The company appears to be ignoring a widely accepted web standard, the Robots Exclusion Protocol, to scrape parts of the web that operators don’t want to be accessed by bots, according to a report from developer Robb Knight this week that was confirmed by Wired.

But that’s not even the interesting B2B or Enterprise AI related news. On the same week that HeyGen gets more funding, it turns out ByteDance the maker of TikTok, has launched their own clone called Symphony Avatars, basically normalizing the business of creating synthetic Avatars and cloning those of even celebrities. Meanwhile Google, the company that was supposed to help fund Character.AI has instead decided to clone them.

It’s a bit like ElevenLabs and Perplexity rubbed off on AI product makers the wrong way. ByteDance is also launching an “AI Dubbing” tool for creators and brands to expand the reach of their ads and branded content. TikTok Symphony is a fairly good applications for things you can do that aren’t even allowed in China.