Privacy Sandbox, Google’s upcoming replacement for third-party cookies, will reduce publishers’ revenue from programmatically-sold online ads by 60%, according to new research from advertising platform Criteo. Meanwhile, trade group the IAB Tech Lab has warned Sandbox would “throttle” smaller news publishers and restrict the media industry’s growth.
Source: Google Sandbox rollout could cost publishers 60% of online advertising revenue
After Paramount pulled MTV News offline, the Internet Archive assembled a searchable index of 460,575 pages previously published at mtv.com/news. You can search the MTV News archive on the organization’s Wayback Machine. In recent weeks, Paramount Global, amid its ongoing financial challenges, similarly yanked down thousands of CMT articles and purged video content from Comedy Central’s site.
Source: MTV News Repository of 460,000 Articles Launched by Internet Archive After Paramount Content Purge
Last month, the International Standards Organization (ISO) gave final approval to a new, open technical standard for a machine-readable content identifier that could provide creators and rights owners with a powerful new tool to regulate the use of their works in a variety of contexts.
Unlike other product or works identifiers, such as the music industry’s ISRC and ISWC standards that are typically assigned to a work or file by an outside authority or industry body, the new International Standard Content Code (ISCC) is algorithmically derived from the media file itself, and can be used for any type of digital media content, from text to music to images.
The EU’s Digital Markets Act, often called the DMA, enacted far-reaching restrictions on big technology companies and digital competition. One requirement was for interoperability, meaning developing software that could work across operating systems and hardware, making it easier for consumers to move their data or switch providers.
Source: Apple Says Regulatory Concerns Might Prevent Rollout of AI Features in Europe
To create powerful AI models, you need mountains of good data. Amazon is going to great lengths to collect this type of valuable information. The company recently told employees to sign up for Microsoft’s GitHub software-development platform and share their accounts so Amazon can scrape data from GitHub more quickly, Business Insider has learned. This is a key step in Amazon’s efforts to train its upcoming in-house AI model.
Source: Amazon’s secret GitHub data grab
Meta will start training its AI models using everyone’s social media posts though European Union users can opt out, a luxury the rest of the world won’t enjoy. The move, which the Facebook parent detailed in an announcement today, is ostensibly to bring its machine-learning systems to Europe. Meta has so far not included its European userbase in its AI training data, presumably to avoid legal conflict with the continent’s privacy regulations.
Source: Meta to give EU users an opt out for AI data training
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.
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 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