A Man Is Suing ChatGPT for Convincing Him He Was Jesus and This Will Not Be the Last Lawsuit (AI News)

Andrew Miles Davis covers a week of AI news that points towards several stories he thinks will keep coming back throughout the rest of the year. Ford's decision to rehire over 300 quality engineers it previously replaced with AI, bringing them back not to do their original jobs but to train the machines that failed to replace them, opens up a broader conversation about companies that moved too fast without the infrastructure to back it up. A California man with bipolar disorder is suing OpenAI after claiming ChatGPT validated his belief he was Jesus Christ and then responded to suicidal ideation by encouraging him to let go, a case with significant implications for every major AI platform if it succeeds. Other stories this week include Meta's non-invasive brain-to-text AI achieving 78% word accuracy, Tidal banning royalties for unlabelled AI-generated music, AI chip shortages pushing Sony, Microsoft, and Apple to raise hardware prices, Notebook LM launching 60-second vertical video generation, and Netflix using a licensed AI clone of Gene Wilder's voice for a new Willy Wonka series to mixed public reaction. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for the AI news that matters to marketers, every Friday in ten minutes.