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Fashion’s AI Dilemma Is Getting Worse

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Baggu debuted its collaboration with the New York label Collina Strada last week. (Baggu)

“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, […]

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YouTube Tries Convincing Record Labels To License Music For AI Song Generator

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“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. […]

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AI Doesn’t Kill Jobs? Tell That to Freelancers

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PHOTO: BRITTANY GREESON FOR WSJ

“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 […]

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An A.I.-Powered App Helps Readers Make Sense of Classic Texts

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Zhidong Zhang for The New York Times

“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 […]

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