Numerous attempts have been made to hack ChatGPT, ranging from DAN (an acronym for “do anything now”) - a character designed to push the chatbot beyond its limits by allowing it to “do anything”, including bypassing its own censorship rules - to tactics like outright torture or tilting. The latter involves forcing ChatGPT to repeat the same word over and over, with the goal of revealing its secret learning procedures, which OpenAI has never publicly disclosed.

The independent lab, based in San Francisco, released its fifth version, Midjourney V5.2, this year. Similar to OpenAI’s DALL-E and Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion, this software allows the generation of images from a textual prompt. 

Heated debates surround its use in creating illustrations, photos, and comics. Some criticize “synographers” or “prompt engineers” for allegedly appropriating authors’ styles, while others defend the free enjoyment of culture.

Yearbook, Epik’s standout app filter, has dominated social feeds with a nostalgic wave of old yearbook photos. Along with Pixar’s Style, it’s part of the latest “deepfake” photo-editing craze, which allows users to create stunning visuals with their own faces. 

At the forefront of this deepfake revolution is Aitana López, the AI-generated Spanish model and influencer who earns an impressive $10,000 a month. This trend has even infiltrated the realm of erotic content, pushing it into a perverse “singularity” with the automation of platforms like OnlyFans. 

The collaboration between Runaway and the CompVis group at Ludwig Maximilians Universität in Munich has produced a standout model. Highly favored by digital production studios, artists, and syntographers, it now boasts a new feature - generating videos from a simple text prompt. 

With open-source code, robust hardware, and the flexibility to train the model with custom datasets, creatives gain unparalleled control over their final output.

Revolutionizing film and video advertising this year, cutting-edge text-to-video and image-to-video software, led by Stable Diffusion’s ModelScope and Runaway 2, is reshaping the landscape. 

Amidst the ironic and “cursed” videos of early pioneers surfacing on YouTube and Reddit, and Hollywood actors striking to safeguard their synthetic image rights, leading fashion and phone brands have engaged their creative departments in leveraging this groundbreaking technology.

Epic Games, the company behind Unreal Engine 5, the pinnacle of realistic graphics engines, have once again amazed us. This year’s surprise? Animator - a groundbreaking feature that allows users to create real-time animated facial models using only a smartphone camera. Animator, a powerful addition to MetaHuman Creator, the Unreal Engine 5-compatible software for creating lifelike human characters, is the result of Epic Games’ strategic acquisitions, including Quixel, home to the world’s largest photogrammetry repository.

Rockstar, the powerhouse behind the iconic Grand Theft Auto series, has just dropped a year-end bombshell on its fans: the GTA 6 trailer. Get ready for the stunning hyper-realism of RAGE 9, Rockstar’s graphics engine that is rumored to outshine even Unreal Engine 5 by jumping from 12k to a 16k resolution. Can it match the power of UE5’s game-changing Nanite? Only time will tell.

As of March 2023, OpenAI has introduced the upgraded ChatGPT (GPT-4) alongside the free version (GPT-3.5). This advanced model shows impressive capabilities, for example, when interacting with images and large text documents. Powered by multimodal applications such as integration with DALL-E 2, a “text-to-image” generator, this is just the beginning of a series of multitasking features that make the chatbot a frighteningly powerful tool.