Hollywood talent firm Creative Artists Agency has started making virtual clones of top film stars using AI under a project supposedly meant to create new acting opportunities for the humans involved. Dubbed ‘CAA Vault’, the initiative allows the talent agency’s
Video game developers are scrambling to create unions to protect their jobs as the threats of generative AI-inspired automation looms. Spurred by an ongoing tidal wave of layoffs, game developers, animators, voice actors are increasingly banding together to protect their
SAG-AFTRA secures deals with major record labels to limit AI use, ensuring artist consent and compensation and boosting wages and benefits. Hollywood celebrities, media professionals, and major record labels, including Warner Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment, have reached a
Currently, 20% of music created by generative AI (gen AI) is accurate when it comes to writing music for particular commercial briefs. A study conducted by sound testing company SoundOut and sound branding agency Stephen Arnold Music (SAM) supports this.
German artist Mathias Vef and designer Benedikt Groß created a new ‘deepfake camera’ called Nuca, which uses AI to completely undress photos of clothed people within seconds. Nuca raises questions about privacy, but its creators argue they are doing it
Google and Intel on Tuesday launched their own AI chips to challenge Nvidia as the race to manufacture advanced semiconductors to power generative AI models like ChatGPT or Gemini intensifies. Google released its Cloud TPU v5p and Intel unveiled its
Google plans to start charging for AI-powered search features, as part of proposals to monetize its AI tools, marking a major shift from the company’s decades long ad-driven revenue model. One proposal, as first reported by the Financial Times, would
Google Books has reportedly been cataloguing low quality AI generated books, a discovery made in same manner that unearthed AI generated products on Amazon. The revelation of the many AI generated books might negatively impact on Google Ngram Viewer, which
Around 200 music artists, including Nicki Minaj, Kate Perry, Stevie Wonder, and the estates of Bob Marley and Frank Sinatra, signed an open letter calling on AI developers to stop using their work without permission. The letter, released by the
The A Fractured America series on Chinese state media demonstrates how AI is starting to influence Beijing’s influence operations. China’s state broadcaster CGTN has launched an animated series that scrutinizes the United States and portrays it as a country in
Boston University (BU) dean of arts and sciences, Stan Sclaroff, suggested that faculty members use generative AI tools to replace the work of striking graduate workers, The Daily Beast reports. The BU Graduate Workers Union started its strike on Mar.
Microsoft has unveiled a set of capabilities in the Azure AI Studio to tackle a plethora of issues including AI hallucinations, poisoning and prompt injection. The new tools are meant to make generative AI safer and reliable for users, after
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