While people may sleep, technology doesn’t. Each day, there’s a flood of news about generative AI. Artists, immersed in their craft, might find it challenging to keep up, which is why I’m curating and highlighting relevant articles, available in the “Salty Snacks” section of the website. Why “Salty Snacks,” you say? Picture the irresistible appeal of a crunchy potato chip […]
“Baggu and Collina Strada are the most recent targets of ire among consumers opposed to the use of generative AI designs, and they won’t be the last. What does it mean for an industry that has already embraced the innovation with open arms? When nylon bag maker Baggu debuted its collaboration with the equally buzzy label Collina Strada last week, […]
“YouTube is in talks with record labels to license their songs for artificial intelligence tools that clone popular artists’ music, hoping to win over a skeptical industry with upfront payments. The Google-owned video site needs labels’ content to legally train AI song generators, as it prepares to launch new tools this year, according to three people familiar with the matter. […]
“There’s now data to back up what freelancers have been saying for months. “You can talk to any artist at this point, and they have a story about how they were given AI reference material to work from, or lost a job,” says Southen. In addition to fewer projects, studios and production companies are cutting the amount of time for […]
“Margaret Atwood and John Banville are among the authors who have sold their voices and commentary to an app that aims to bring canonical texts to life with the latest tech. For the past year, two philosophy professors have been calling around to prominent authors and public intellectuals with an unusual, perhaps heretical, proposal. They have been asking these thinkers […]
“A cinema in London has cancelled the world premiere of a film with a script generated by AI after a backlash. The Prince Charles cinema, located in London’s West End and which traditionally screens cult and art films, was due to host a showing of a new production called The Last Screenwriter on Sunday. However the cinema announced on social […]