“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 […]
“Singapore’s literary community is pushing back against an official effort to train LLMs using their published works, part of a growing global resistance. Singaporean writers are resisting their government’s request to use their works to train a multilingual LLM. Writers say there is little clarity on compensation and how the material will be used. It is rare for a country […]
“Voice AI startup ElevenLabs is offering an early look at a new model that turns a prompt into song lyrics. To raise awareness, it’s following a similar playbook Sam Altman used when OpenAI introduced Sora, its video-generating AI, soliciting ideas on social media and turning them into lyrics. Founded by former Google and Palantir employees, ElevenLabs specializes in using machine learning (ML) for […]
“Apple can generally be relied on for clever, well-produced ads, but it missed the mark with its latest, which depicts a tower of creative tools and analog items literally crushed into the form of the iPad. Apple has since apologized for the ad and canceled plans to televise it. Apple’s VP of Marketing Tor Myhren told Ad Age: “We missed […]