A new movement of AI labeling is rising despite OpenAI dropping watermarking due to low accuracy (26%). Instead of labeling content themselves, which seems futile, big tech (Google, YouTube, Meta, and TikTok) pushes users to label AI content with a carrot/stick approach. Google uses a double-pronged approach to fight AI spam in search: prominently showing forums like Reddit, where content is most likely created by humans, and penalties.
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Getty Images CEO Calls for Industry Standards Around AI
Earlier this year, Getty filed suit in London against Stability AI claiming the open-source generative AI company unlawfully copied and processed millions of Getty’s copyright-protected images. But the stock images giant is trying to be proactive as well, signing a deal with AI giant Nvidia to create AI text-to-image and text-to-video services with a generative model trained on Getty’s copyright-protected library of stock images.
Source: Getty Images CEO Calls for Industry Standards Around AI
AI race heats up as OpenAI, Google and Mistral release new models
OpenAI, Google, and the French artificial intelligence startup Mistral have all released new versions of their frontier AI models within 12 hours of one another, as the industry prepares for a burst of activity over the summer. The unprecedented flurry of releases come as the sector readies for the expected launch of the next major version of GPT, the system that underpins OpenAI’s hit chatbot Chat-GPT.
Source: AI race heats up as OpenAI, Google and Mistral release new models
Artists Are Seeing Their Music Removed From DSPs for Streaming Fraud They Didn’t Commit
Streaming fraud is one of the industry’s biggest challenges — but some artists are having their music removed from DSPs for fraud they didn’t commit. TuneCore CEO Andreea Gleason and VP of Artist Support Erica Clayton revealed the pressure they were under from streaming services, which led them to implement these admittedly aggressive policies.
NATO, MPA Chiefs Talk An Industry ‘Sorting Out’ As CinemaCon Kicks Off
Cinema owners, studios and indie distributors gathering in Las Vegas this week for exhibition’s biggest confab seek visibility into a theatrical landscape gut-punched by Hollywood strikes last year just as a post-Covid recovery was revving up. Production halted for months led to fewer releases on the schedule.
SAG-AFTRA Seeks to Write AI Protections Into California Law
SAG-AFTRA, the union representing Hollywood actors, is pushing for legislation that would require detailed consent for the use of “digital replicas.” In a separate bill, the union also wants to prevent studios from putting dead performers in movies without the consent of their heirs. Underscoring the contentiousness around AI, the Motion Picture Association has come out against the digital replicas bill.
Source: SAG-AFTRA Seeks to Write AI Protections Into California Law
Spotify leans further into artificial intelligence with new ‘AI Playlist’ generator
The new AI Playlist tool is rolling out in beta form to Spotify Premium subscribers on Android and iOS devices in the UK and Australia, the company announced in a statement on Sunday (April 7). The tool will enable users to enter a text prompt from which the AI Playlist will generate music suggestions.
IATSE Sees Fears and Promise of Artificial Intelligence: ‘We Want the Spoils’
AI is high on the agenda as IATSE looks to set a new three-year contract with Hollywood’s major studios and streamers before the July 31 expiration of its current deal. Like the other unions that have struck new contracts over the past year — the WGA, SAG-AFTRA, the Directors Guild of America and the American Federation of Musicians — IATSE is seeking “guardrails” on AI use.
Source: IATSE Sees Fears and Promise of Artificial Intelligence: ‘We Want the Spoils’
AI’s quiet creep into music punctuated by ‘SpongeBob’ voices and a secretive artist called Glorb
SpongeBob, the title cheery yellow character, appears outside his pineapple-shaped home, while Mr. Krabs, SpongeBob’s cranky boss, is at the Krusty Krab restaurant he runs. But unlike in the show, the characters in the videos aren’t singing jolly songs about life in the underwater city of Bikini Bottom. Instead, they’re rapping about drugs and guns.
Source: AI’s quiet creep into music punctuated by ‘SpongeBob’ voices and a secretive artist called Glorb
UK Govt: “Pronounced Inaccuracies” in Press Reports on IP-Related Matters
A study on emerging public perceptions of intellectual property in UK media has found that there are “pronounced inaccuracies in the reporting on IP related matters in the UK Press.” An initial review published by the UK’s Intellectual Property Office notes that inaccurate reporting may be due to a “lack of understanding.” Further investigation would be required to find out the “cause and extent” and the subsequent impact on IP rights as understood by the public.
Source: UK Govt: “Pronounced Inaccuracies” in Press Reports on IP-Related Matters * TorrentFreak