Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic is reportedly working on a new feature for its chatbot Claude that would enable it to analyze images. Although Anthropic has not publicly discussed this new feature, a review of the company’s website code using Chrome developer tools has revealed unpublished wording related to image analysis, Bloomberg reported Tuesday (Jan. 17).
Source: Anthropic to Enable Image Analysis in AI Chatbot Claude
In the job listing, posted last week, Netflix said the financial analyst for residuals will be “a key member in our Contingent Compensation & Reporting Department” whose main responsibilities will be “interpreting and analyzing residual impact in accordance with various guilds, unions and production service agreements and execute accordingly.”
The service is called ‘BandLab Licensing‘ and the company claims that it’s a “first-of-its-kind offering for a music creation platform”. BandLab Licensing is described by BandLab as “a turnkey solution for one-stop licensing” that will offer synchronization opportunities for film, TV, games, and advertising. Additionally, BandLab says that it extends streaming licenses to platforms “seeking fresh and distinctive rights-cleared content”.
Source: Music-making platform BandLab launches sync licensing program for its 60m+ registered users
The EU has proposed sweeping changes within the music streaming industry to promote smaller artists and make sure underpaid performers are being fairly compensated. A resolution to address concerns regarding inadequate streaming royalties for artists and biased recommendation algorithms was adopted by members of the European Parliament (MEPs) on Wednesday, highlighting that no existing EU rules currently apply to music streaming services.
Source: Music streaming platforms must pay artists more, says EU
The past decade’s belated, disjointed, and ultimately woefully insufficient efforts to govern social media’s use of algorithmic systems are a sobering example of the consequences of passively hoping that social benefits will trickle down as an emergent property of technological development. Political leaders cannot again buy the myth—peddled by self-interested tech leaders and investors—that supporting innovation requires suspending government’s regulatory duties.
Source: The Right Way to Regulate AI
The web’s video misinformation problem is set to get a lot worse before it gets better, with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman going on the record to say that video-creation capabilities are coming to ChatGPT within the next year or two. Speaking to Bill Gates on the Unconfuse Me podcast (via Tom’s Guide), Altman pointed to multimodality – the ability to work across text, images, audio and “eventually video” – as a key upgrade for ChatGPT and its models over the next two years.
Source: ChatGPT will get video-creation powers in a future version – and the internet isn’t ready for it
The new collective bargaining agreement struck between the major Hollywood studios and the Screen Actors Guild may have an impact on the longevity of future shows, according to one Walt Disney executive. The increasingly complex terms gives actors more flexibility to move on to projects and makes it more costly to retain them for future seasons, which could lead to shows ending prematurely, warned Grant Michaelson, vice president of business affairs for Disney’s branded television unit.
Apple has quietly tightened its reporting of how many people listen to podcasts, sending shock waves through an embattled audio industry still reeling from the end of the COVID-era production bubble. The shift, Apple wrote in a blog post, was technical: The dominant podcasting platform had begun switching off automatic downloads for users who haven’t listened to five episodes of a show in the last two weeks.
Web3 streaming and superfan-monetization platform Tune.fm has announced a $20 million raise and plans to score major label licensing deals. Founded in 2011 by brothers Andrew and Brian Antar, Tune.fm says its Hedera Hashgraph-built JAM token and adjacent “micropayments technology” afford artists “instant royalties” for on-platform streaming. The overarching model also enables creators to pull in between 10 and 100 times more royalties than they would on traditional services like Apple Music and Spotify, according to Tune.fm.
Source: Web3 Streaming Platform Tune.fm Announces $20 Million Raise
Universal Music Group is reportedly preparing to cut ‘hundreds’ of jobs in Q1, with UMG’s recorded music to be ‘hit the hardest.’ “We continue to position UMG to accelerate its leadership in music’s most promising growth areas and drive its transformation to capitalize on them,” said a spokesperson for UMG on Friday. “Over the past several years, we have been investing in future growth — building our e-commerce and D2C operations, expanding geographically, and leveraging new technologies.”
Source: Universal Music Preparing Major Layoff Round of ‘Hundreds’