Welcome to the Connected Church News by Natchi Lazarus.
This news item is part of the top 5 news (Week 3, Jun 2024) specially curated for leaders of Nonprofits, Churches, and Faith-based Social Ventures.
here are the top three takeaways from a media ministry perspective on Apple’s recent announcement about their own set of AI tools. First thing is content creation. You will be able to create written content and images or videos within Apple devices without needing any other third party tool. ChatGPT is now directly built into Apple devices. The second thing is all of this happens based on the context of the device on which you are using this. For example, let’s say you’re using a ministry phone which has all your sermon, your interaction with other leaders of your ministry, your notes, anything like that. It will use all that information as a context to generate content, which means it’s going to sound like you. The third big thing is privacy focus because the moment you hear about these features you’re thinking what it’s going to read all my messages and mails. Apple says most of the activity is going to happen ‘on-device’.
Here is the full list of the news items from Week 3, Jun 2024 with source links from Apple, AI, WhatsApp, YouTube, LinkedIn, Google.
🗞️ News 1: New ‘Apple Intelligence’ AI: Top 3 Useful Takeaways for Media Ministry
Source: Apple
🗞️ News 2: YouTube Tests New Features: Thumbnail Testing, QR Codes, @ Mentions
Source: YouTube
🗞️ News 3: Google Launches ‘Google TV Network’ for Targeted Advertising on CTV
Source: Google
🗞️ News 4: LinkedIn Introduces ‘The Wire’ Program, In-Stream Video Ad Placement
Source: Linkedin
🗞️ News 5: WhatsApp Releases AI, Meta Verified & In-Chat Calling for Businesses
Source: WhatsApp
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Author of The Connected Church. Social Media and Digital Marketing Consultant for Nonprofits, Faith-based Organisations, Churches, and Ministries.







