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Benioff Promotes Salesforce AI at Dreamforce While Warning of Dangers

  • Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff promoted AI products at Dreamforce while warning of generative AI's risks.

  • Benioff said media companies have content "stolen" by AI, concerned as Time owner.

  • Salesforce claimed its AI is ethical, not scraping web like others.

  • Salesforce trains some models from scratch, others on top of existing models.

  • Salesforce's Kathy Baxter said models only use customer and legal open data, not copyrighted.

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