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Sarah Buchner started as a carpenter at age 12 — now her AI construction startup has raised $20 million
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🪚 Sarah Buchner started as a carpenter at age 12 — now her AI construction startup has raised $20 million
🇺🇸 OpenAI shuts down election influence operation that used ChatGPT
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According to one recent survey, a third of construction professionals found accessing documents to be a challenge in completing a project, while a fourth said that inaccurate project paperwork has contributed to a construction delay.
Sarah Buchner knows this well. Originally a carpenter, she founded a startup, Trunk Tools, that provides automation tools to organize unstructured construction documentation.
“I grew up in a poor environment in a small village in Austria and started working as a carpenter at age 12,” Buchner told TechCrunch. “After many years in carpentry, I switched over to the general contractor side and worked my way up from superintendent to project manager to group leader. My PhD research made me realize that I could have a greater impact on my field by developing disruptive construction technology, and this inspired me to move across the world to Silicon Valley to attend Stanford and get my MBA.”
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OpenAI has banned a cluster of ChatGPT accounts linked to an Iranian influence operation that was generating content about the U.S. presidential election, according to a blog post on Friday. The company says the operation created AI-generated articles and social media posts, though it doesn’t seem that it reached much of an audience.
This is not the first time OpenAI has banned accounts linked to state-affiliated actors using ChatGPT maliciously. In May the company disrupted five campaigns using ChatGPT to manipulate public opinion.
These episodes are reminiscent of state actors using social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter to attempt to influence previous election cycles. Now similar groups (or perhaps the same ones) are using generative AI to flood social channels with misinformation.
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