🆘 Cartel's 'AI Fraud-for-Hire' Commercial and Sexy MJ Powerpuff Girls

Morning everyone, and for our U.S. readers, welcome back from a long weekend!

We're heading into an AI-article loop where every 'new' article is just a rehash of a previous one. This makes sense as AI-hype is losing its steam and funding is down across the board - there are, after all, only so many pitches that can start with, "It's like ChatGPT but for ...."

The good news is that plenty of new tools are coming out daily, and Web3 continues to heat up, so stick around; the next few months look interesting.

It's Tuesday. Let's get it.

-Kevin

📈 Trending Web3 Stories

MetaMask scammers take over government websites to target crypto investors. India, Nigeria, Egypt and 4+ others impacted. (Read More)

BTC derivatives have flipped bearish after Bitcoin failed to get bullish momentum, data hints at $22k as next step down. (Read More)

Chinese court declares crypto legal property protected by law, which kicks off the Chinese ban/unban cycle before the halving. (Read More)

JPMorgan says SEC will likely will be forced to approve Grayscale’s Spot Bitcoin ETF after court win. Our bet is that the approval will come in March 2024. (Read More)

Vitalik Buterin sells remaining MakerDAO tokens worth $578k as project soniders moving to Solana’s new chain dubbed, “NewChain.” New chain, new language. Who dis? (Read More)

Australia rejects crypto regulation bill - which is actually a good thing. (Read More)

Stake.com, world’s largest crypto casino, suspends withdrawls and deposits after $41M hack. (Read More)

🤖 Trending AI Tools

Grindery - Pay and get paid in crypto, right in your Telegram app. (link)

CandyIcons - Create your own app icons with AI in 3 easy steps. (link)

Audiosonic - Transform your content into realistic human-like speech instantly. (link)

Artvisio - AI art generator good at generating legible text on artworks. (link)

Singify - Make AI music covers with your favorite artists. (link)

Inspire AI - Feel better with AI crafted motivation. (App Store)

Arvin - The 1st code interpreter extension powered by GPT-4. (link)

AI Gen Prompt - Text prompts generated by AI to inspire image creation with Midjourney. (link)

📻 Trending AI Stories

Bartenders in Vegas are Losing their Jobs to Robots. Tipping Still Encouraged.
Sabrina Bergman works at the Tipsy Robot, a bar inside Planet Hollywood on the Las Vegas strip. Her job is to help the robot do its job, tending bar. When the robot accidentally tips over a cup, she resets it. If the robot starts to get handsy with a customer she gives it a playful slap. Just another day in Vegas. (Read more)

Crypto is in ‘Arms Race’ Against AI-Powered Scams
“In crypto, there’s a lot of databases with all the contact information for the key people from each project. Once the hackers have access to that, they can have an AI that messages all of these people in different ways,” - Richard Ma, Quantstamp’s Co-Founder (Read more)

Baidu Launches AI Apps After its Ernie Chatbot Gets Public Approval
Chinese Tech giant Baidu announced more than 10 new AI-based apps on Tuesday, including generative word processing. More than 6 million users the AI Assistant, which can search documents, summarize and translate text and create content - whether you want it to or not. (Read More)

Global Criminal Enterprise Drops ‘Fraud-for-Hire’ Commercial on Dark Web
A criminologist recently unearthed a video of a multibillion-dollar, global criminal organization that has been stealing from the U.S. government since the pandemic and selling generative artificial intelligence tools to other criminals. They also sell timeshares, which makes sense. (Watch the commercial)

How Amazon is Using Gen AI to Recognize your Palm
Amazon’s neural network trained on images of millions of artificial hands to achieve accuracy higher than scanning two irises. What will spy movies do without the standard ‘scan the eye for entry,’ scene? (Watch the video)

Midjourney AI-Images

Your Kids Next School Play - Which Character Are They?
17 elementary-aged students getting ready for their big play - Breaking Bad style. (Check out the collection here)

If the PowerPuff Girls were Influencers
Buttercup looks like Christina Ricci, and we’re ok with that. (Check out the collection here)

Want More?
If you’ve ever wondered what your favorite superheroes looked like in an awkward high school pic - this drops for you.

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