The amount of royalties generated by European Union artists on Spotify has tripled in the past six years, and listeners’ tastes are becoming increasingly local. So says Spotify’s inaugural European Union-focused Loud & Clear report, which for the first time breaks down Spotify listener and royalty data specifically for the European Union.
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How today’s artists find sustainable success in a turbulent music industry
Over the past decade, the music industry’s approach to talent discovery, marketing, and artist careers has become too data obsessed, near sighted, and damaging to the industry’s lifeblood. Artists are being sold short and, in turn, this has created a dysfunctional creative-commercial ecosystem.
Source: Stability from chaos: How today’s artists find sustainable success in a turbulent music industry
LinkedIn Begins Labeling AI-Generated Content
LinkedIn has announced it will begin adding labels to in-stream content created by generative AI so its users better understand the posts they are interacting with. To carry out the labeling process, the business-to-business social network is partnering with the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA), a project that aims to develop technical standards for certifying the origins of digital content.
Source: MediaDailyNews: LinkedIn Begins Labeling AI-Generated Content
Reddit’s deal with OpenAI will plug its posts into “ChatGPT and new products”
OpenAI has signed a deal for access to real-time content from Reddit’s data API, which means it can surface discussions from the site within ChatGPT and other new products. It’s an agreement similar to the one Reddit signed with Google earlier this year that was reportedly worth $60 million. The deal will also “enable Reddit to bring new AI-powered features to Redditors and mods” and use OpenAI’s large language models to build applications
Source: Reddit’s deal with OpenAI will plug its posts into “ChatGPT and new products”
The Battle Over Using Journalism to Build AI Models is Just Starting
ChatGPT will tell you that the news is factual, includes language variation and cultural awareness, comprises complex sentence structures, includes quotes that convey real-world conversations, excels at summarization and condensation. In fact, the news is so valuable to this endeavor that it makes up half of the top 10 sites incorporated into one of Google’s datasets that is being used to train some of the most popular large language models.
Source: The Battle Over Using Journalism to Build AI Models is Just Starting | Nieman Reports
TikTok is adding an “AI-generated” label to watermarked third-party content
TikTok already automatically applies an “AI-generated” tag to content on its platform made using TikTok’s AI tools, and that same label will now apply to content created on other platforms. Now, TikTok will detect when images or videos are uploaded to its platform containing metadata tags indicating the presence of AI-generated content and says it’s the first social media platform to support the new Content Credentials.
Source: TikTok is adding an “AI-generated” label to watermarked third-party content
Can Regulation Deep Six Deepfakes?
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a basic science and research arm of the Commerce Department best known, if at all, for tackling knotty challenges like accurately centering quantum dots in photonic chips and developing standard reference materials for measuring the contents of human poop used in medical research and treatments, last week took up the problem of identifying AI generated and manipulated audio, video, images and text.
Tasked by President Biden’s Executive Order on AI with helping to improve the safety, security and trustworthiness of AI systems, NIST has issued a GenAI Challenge inviting teams of researchers from academia, industry and other research labs to participate in a series of challenges intended to evaluate systems and methods of identifying synthetic content.
This Week in AI: Generative AI and the problem of compensating creators
A recently published research paper co-authored by Boaz Barak, a scientist on OpenAI’s Superalignment team, proposes a framework to compensate copyright owners “proportionally to their contributions to the creation of AI-generated content.” How? Through cooperative game theory.
Source: This Week in AI: Generative AI and the problem of compensating creators | TechCrunch
AI Is Gathering a Growing Amount of Training Data Inside Virtual Worlds
For color images, the widely used RGB (red, green, blue) model can correspond to over 16 million possible colors. So as graphics rendering technology becomes ever more photorealistic, the distinction between pixels captured by real-world cameras and ones rendered in a game engine is falling away.
Source: AI Is Gathering a Growing Amount of Training Data Inside Virtual Worlds
SAG-AFTRA Will Use Nielsen Data as Part of Enforcing Studio Pact on Streaming Content
SAG-AFTRA will license Nielsen‘s streaming content data, which the union will to enforce the terms of its 2023 contract with Hollywood studios. Under the deal for Nielsen’s Streaming Content Ratings, SAG-AFTRA will have “an objective source of domestic viewership data for original streaming programming,” the parties announced.
Source: SAG-AFTRA Will Use Nielsen Data as Part of Enforcing Studio Pact on Streaming Content