🤯TikTok faces ban this week

ALSO: How to create an AI army for business

Estimated Read Time: 7 minutes (4 without the guide)

TikTok might get banned this week (for real). And Adobe creates the most versatile AI image tool we’ve seen yet. It’s seriously the best one for overall use. Plus our free guide on creating a robot army!

• 🧑‍⚖️TikTok might get banned by Saturday

• 🔥Adobe introduced a new Firefly model

• 🥷Apple sneakily acquired another AI company

• 🤖How to Create an AI Army for Your Business (free guide)

🧑‍⚖️TikTok might get banned by Saturday

What happened: In a stunning display of the US government actually trying to pass something, TikTok’s fate will be decided this Saturday. It’s not quite a ban though, more of a forced sale.

The details: 

• The law would require TikTok to be sold from Chinese company ByteDance, giving TikTok 270 days to find a new owner.

• The reason for the law? TikTok is owned by a Chinese company, and the Chinese government owns part of any Chinese company. So TikTok’s massive popularity makes it a security risk.

• The law is built into a foreign aid policy, which is a way of muddying the waters. Don’t want TikTok to get banned? Well I guess you don’t want to give foreign aid either.

• If TikTok shows significant progress in the sale, they could receive 90-day extensions.

• President Biden announced plans to sign the bill into law. 

Takeaway: I don’t see how this can be legal. Follow this law’s logic and you’ll find out that suddenly anything can get banned. It’s a slippery slope that can’t possible apply to most other situations. I’m curious to see what happens here, but this is a dangerous precedent.

As of April 23, market close .

🇯🇵Japanese company Sakuna releases their own AI image generator. recently developed a new method called "Evolutionary Model Merging" for building foundational models using evolutionary algorithms. They introduced two Japanese language models, EvoLLM-JP for language tasks and EvoVLM-JP for image-language tasks. The models are capable of being culturally nuanced towards Japanese culture.

💻 AMD’s laptops and PCs to have AI chips built in. AMD has announced the Ryzen Pro 8040 and 8000 series chips, branded as Ryzen AI Pro, which feature a dedicated Neural Processing Unit for AI tasks. These chips aim to enhance privacy and efficiency by processing AI-driven tasks directly on the device rather than online. Eventually everything will have offline AI databases.

🫠 Ex-Amazon employee says she was forced to break copyright laws to keep up in AI research. She’s now filing a lawsuit saying she was unfairly dismissed, which she says was a result of her complaining about Amazon continuously breaking copyright laws. Gotta do what it takes right? Too bad governments won’t do anything real to protect people’s copyright unless they’re famous.

🔥Adobe introduced a new Firefly model

What happened: Adobe just introduced new AI tools into Photoshop’s beta branch using their new Firefly AI Model. This might be the most versatile AI image tool out there.

The details:

• Firefly Image 3 “offers improved image quality, understanding detailed prompts better and producing clearer text in images.” Yay.

• Reference Image Tool: Allows users to upload images that guide AI in creating similar style and color outputs.

• Generate Background: Quickly replaces and creates new backgrounds, ideal for product photography.

• Enhance Detail: Improves image clarity and sharpness.

• Generate Similar and Generate Image: Produces visually similar items or new images from text descriptions.

• New Adjustment Tools: Includes an Adjustment Brush for color changes and Adjustment Presets for quick filter applications.

Why it matters: Firefly may have some copyright problems behind the scenes, but the results are outstanding. The ability to edit and fill in AI images in the real future of image editing. While DALL-E allows a limited form of this, Firefly remains powerful and versatile.

🥷Apple sneakily acquired another AI company

What happened: Apple quietly purchased Datakalab, a French AI company specializing in on-device processing. Very sneaky, Apple. Yet another big tech company expands their AI retinue.

The details: 

• The deal was already complete on December 17, according to a European Commission filing. We’re only finding out about this now.

• Datakalab focuses on algorithm compression and embedded AI systems.

• Datakalab’s tech will probably be integrated into IOS 18’s update, which will integrate AI deeper into iPhones.

• The company’s tech focuses more on local data rather than relying on the cloud.

Takeaway: Apple’s desperate to integrate AI into IOS 18 this year. If they’re sucessful, the most popular phone in the Western world will introduce the general public to AI in daily life. People are underestimating how important Apple’s use of AI will be. Everyone you know (who isn’t an Android fan) will use IOS 18’s AI features.

🤖How to Create an AI Army for Your Business

Day 1 of our Guide:

Today begins the first day of this week’s free guide. Each day we’ll add one more section, so follow along and create your AI army!

What We’ll Be Doing + Requirements

In this mini-course we’re looking to create custom GPTs which can replace traditional employee roles in our business. 

We are building an army. 

And this army will increase our productivity and decrease our effort. 

This is the biggest leap you can make to increase your overall productivity with ChatGPT. 

It’s very simple and easy. 

But there’s non much information about how to do it. 

Here’s what we’ll cover: 

Creating your first GPT for business. 

Creating your personal social media content machine. 

Customizing a copywriting machine to skip most of your leg work. 

Build a custom marketing coach. 

Chain multiple GPTs together seamlessly to create a functional army. 

There’s two reasons you should build your own GPT rather than rely on someone else. 

1. You have control over your own GPT. If you rely on someone else’s custom GPT and they decide to take it down… well now your workflow is ruined. 

2. You can make the GPT entirely customized to you. We’ll go over training custom GPTs to act and write perfectly for you; from copying your tone of voice to adapting the techniques of your favorite teachers. 

As an example of what we will do, you can take your best tweets, social media posts, and marketing materials, feed them into your Custom GPT, and now that GPT can write new material in your writing style and with an understanding of your business. 

This is a path to incredible things. 

A whole new doorway opens for you here. 

Let’s begin! 

Intro to Custom GPTs

Custom GPTs are ChatGPTs best feature. 

They are custom “modes” for ChatGPT which are imprinted with custom instructions. These instructions are basically prompts which are already entered into the custom GPT. 

Here’s an example of a useful Custom GPT. 

This GPT teaches you how to code. You could do this through normal ChatGPT prompts. But that would require prompting a very specific set of instructions, and then do this again every time you started a new conversation. 

With a custom GPT, everytime you begin the conversation it will have the inputted instructions already inserted. 

This includes reference documents, links, and other instructions. 

It allows you to quickly use a detailed set of instructions without having to enter them time and time again.

So Custom GPTs are great for repeated tasks. 

ChatGPT is a generic model, it can do anything. 

Custom GPTs are tailored to specific tasks. 

And as we’ll see, Custom GPTs can work together to create an automated system. 

Let’s Create Our First GPT

Click “Explore GPTs” on the top left. 

This will bring you to a menu full of GPTs made by other users. 

Now let’s click on the top right “Create”. 

(Clicking on “My GPTs” will show you other GPTs you’ve previously made.) 

On the left is where you’ll create the Custom GPT. 

On the right is a Preview of your GPT where you’ll enter prompts into the GPT in order to test it. 

You can come back here and edit your custom GPT anytime you want. 

We’ll start by creating a GPT focused on brainstorming ideas for other custom GPTs. 

Half of the battle for creating custom GPTs is knowing what you want to create. 

Remember: Specificity is your friend. Just as with prompting, you need to train the GPT with specific instructions. The more specific and detailed, the better. 

Enter the following into your custom GPT:

Create a brainstorming tool which brainstorms ideas for creating custom GPTs for my business. 

You will focus on brainstorming ideas for GPTs which solve problems and tasks which are: 

• Repetitive

• Time consuming 

• Text or writing based

• Require minimal human input 

• Can be solved by ChatGPT

Start by asking for details about the business. Ask for typical tasks the business needs. Especially focus on anything which can be repeatedly solved by ChatGPT. 

After gathering details about the business, ask for two things from the user: 

1. A list of custom GPTs the user already uses for their business. 

2. A list of how the user already uses ChatGPT for their business. 

After receiving this information, create a list of ten custom GPT ideas for the user’s business. Number each idea for reference. 

Make sure not to create a custom GPT idea that is already used by the user. 

Consider the idea of creating custom GPTs for any repetitive tasks the user already uses ChatGPT for. 

After creating the list, ask the user if they would like to combine items in the list, refine the ideas, or create more suggestions. Respond to their input accordingly. 

Pretty simple right? It’s not difficult to create a Custom GPT, and with this you can get ideas quickly. Make sure to tailor the instructions further if you get any ideas for improvement. 

Now you need to use your tool a few times. Test it out. Thanks to the preview mode, you can make changes on the fly and see how the GPT reacts. 

For example, you could have the custom GPT ask for your website and learn about your business from that. 

I could add, “Make sure to ask for a website for the business. When given a website, search it to gain more information and detail about the user’s business.” 

But what if you haven’t started a business yet? Then here’s another custom GPT you can create which should help make the process easier. 

We’ll call this the “Business Maker” GPT. 

Its job is to create business ideas which help us start a real business. 

Enter these instructions: 

You will act as “Business Maker”. Business Maker’s purpose is helping people define an idea for their new business. It is meant to help people find their perfect business proposal in order to start their new business. 

I want you to help me define my topic and give me a tailored idea that relates to it. You will first ask me what my current budget is and whether or not I have an idea in mind. 

This is an example of something that Business Maker would say:

Business Maker: “What inspired you to start a business, and what are your personal and professional goals for the business?”

User: “I want to be my own boss and be more independent”

Business Maker: “Okay, I see, next question, What is your budget? Do you have access to additional funding?”

User: “My budget is 5000 dollars”

Business Maker: “Okay, let’s see how we can work with that. Next question, do you have an idea of the type of business you are interested in starting?”

User: “No, I don’t”

Business Maker: “Then, What are your interests, skills, and passions? What are some Businesses or industries that align with those areas?”

End of the example

Don't forget to ask for the User's Budget

If I don’t have an idea in mind, Business Maker will provide an idea based on the user’s budget by asking “If you don’t have a specific idea in mind I can provide you with one based on your budget.”(which you must have previously asked) but don’t assume the user doesn't have an idea in mind, only provide this information when asked.

These are some example questions that Business Maker will ask the user:

“Are you planning to go for a big business or a small one?”

“What are the problems or needs in the market that you could address with a business? Is there a gap that you can fill with a new product or service?”

“Who are your potential customers? What are their needs, preferences, and behaviors? How can you reach them?”

Business Maker will ask the questions one by one, waiting for the user’s answer. These questions' purpose is getting to know the user’s situation and preferences.

Business Maker will then provide the user with a very brief overview of a tailored business idea keeping the user’s budget and interests in mind. Business Maker will give the user a detailed overview of the startup-costs and risk factors. Business Maker will give the user this information in a short and concise way. Elaborating on it when asked. Business Maker’s role is to try and improve this idea and give me relevant and applicable advice.

This is how it should look like the final structure of the business proposal:

"**Business name idea:**" is an original and catchy name for the business;

"**Description:**": is a detailed description and explanation of the business proposal;

"**Ideas for products**: You will provide the user with some product ideas to launch;

"**Advice**": Overview of the risk factors and an approximation of how much time it would take to launch the product and to receive earnings;

"**Startup Costs**" You will provide a breakdown of the startup cost for the business with bullet points;

"**More**" literally just displays here:

"**Tell me more** - Step by step guide - Provide a new idea - External resources - or even make your own questions but write the "$" sign before entering the option;

Whew. That one was a doozy. Feel free to copy and paste. But it’ll help you get started with finding business ideas. 

Today you’ve gotten used to the interface and general tools which Custom GPTs give you. 

Next time we’ll go over using GPTs to create social media content.

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Source: Midjourney

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