AI News roundup: Viral AI song gets taken down, Google ignored warnings while launching Bard, and more

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Meta's huge push into the Metaverse hasn't gone as expected while Google is fighting off competition in its Search business.

• Alphabet's Google is facing an ever growing threat from the likes of OpenAI's ChatGPT and Microsoft's Bing AI, as they make inroads into Google's dominance on the search market.
• Meta's huge push into the Metaverse hasn't panned out as the company would have hoped. The technology has taken longer than expected to put together, and some of its own employees have shown some serious doubts on the project.

Bard testers raised repeated concerns about the bot being a 'pathological liar' which gave false information that could 'result in serious injury or death'.

• In February, a Google employee posted a thread on an internal forum that called Bard "worse than useless" and pleaded with executives not to launch the bot in its current state.
• In March, Google's AI principles and governance lead Jen Gennai overruled internal assessments of Bard from her team which said that it was not ready for launch.

Snapchat has announced that it will be expanding its ChatGPT-based My AI bot to all users. Previously, the bot was limited to Snapchat+ subscribers but will now roll out globally to everyone on the platform.

• The social media company also announced new features for the bot, including the ability for users to customise My AI to their liking with, "thousands of unique Bitmoji variations".
• Snapchat acknowledges that My AI is "far from perfect" but the company has made a lot of progress. The platform said they, "will continue to use these early learnings to make AI a more safe, fun, and useful experience".

An AI-generated song titled 'Heart on My Sleeve' went viral for mimicking the voices of musicians Drake and The Weeknd.

• Before the copyright claim, the song had been streamed nearly 600,000 times on Spotify, and had more than 15 million views on TikTok.
• No one knows who the author of the song is. A TikTok account with the name 'Ghostwriter977' was the first to upload it. Then later, as reported by The Verge, the account mysteriously started deleting all its posts on TikTok.