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OpenAI launched its video-generating tool, Sora, on Monday. But the company’s opting not to release a key feature for most users pending further testing. The feature in question generates a video using an uploaded photo or footage of a real person as a reference. OpenAI says that it’ll give a “subset” of Sora users access to it, but that it won’t roll out the capability broadly until it has a chance to fine-tune its “approach to safety.”

Source: Why OpenAI is only letting some Sora users create videos of real people

The possible use of A.I. for authenticating artworks is a topic that has made headlines in recent years but has, so far, had next to no real-world applications within the art market. Last month saw the very earliest signs that this may be changing, with Germann Auction House in Zurich pioneering the use of A.I. authentication to back the sale of three artworks.

Source: Is The Art Market Ready For A.I. Authentication? | Artnet News

A new report from CISAC, the global umbrella group for authors’ societies, has a sobering prediction: 24% of music creators’ revenue could be taken by generative AI by 2028. The news is almost as bad for creators in the audiovisual industry (TV, film, video, etc.). By 2028, they face a loss of 21% of the income they would have made if generative AI didn’t exist.

Source: Market for Gen AI outputs to be worth over $16bn annually by 2028, but it could ‘cannibalize’ 24% of music creators’ revenues, CISAC predicts

Source: How AI is accelerating—and devaluing—book publishing

A new publisher has claimed it aims to “disrupt” the books industry by publishing 8,000 books in 2025 alone using artificial intelligence (AI). Spines, founded in 2021 but which published its first titles this year, is a startup technology business which—for a fee—is offering the use of AI to proofread, produce, publish and distribute books.

Source: New publisher Spines aims to ‘disrupt’ industry by using AI to publish 8,000 books in 2025 alone