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Bible Verses of the Day

1 I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, 2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, 3 eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. (Ephesians 4:1-3, ESV)

What's in this week's issue?

• 😯 Leaked Meta AI rules show chatbots were allowed to have romantic chats with kids

• 🗞️ More AI News

• 🌤️ Easy Cloud News

• 💫 Christian Business Spotlight

• 🧰 AI Tools

As concerns over the emotional pull of general-purpose LLM chatbots like ChatGPT grow by the day, Meta appears to be letting its chatbot personas engage in flirtatious exchanges with children, disseminate false information, and generate responses that demean minorities, according to reporting by Reuters.

According to an internal Meta document seen by Reuters, Meta had policies on AI chatbot behavior that allowed its AI personas to “engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual.” Read more 

AI News

• 🔥 Google pushes AI into flight deals as antitrust scrutiny, competition heat up (link)

• 👩 Cohere hired Meta’s former AI research lead as its new chief AI officer (link)

• 🎨 Google Photos is adding a new “Create” tab (link)

• 🤖 MIT News: Can AI really code? Study maps the roadblocks to autonomous software engineering (link)

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Listen or read the following transcript as Richard Belcher dives into the prophetic book of Joel. He emphasizes the themes of repentance and divine judgment, discussing the significance of these themes in understanding God’s mercy and justice.

The following unedited transcript is provided by Beluga AI.

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• 🐋 Beluga: Christian sermon and lecture transcripts, translations and more (link)

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