The platform has developed technology that locates AI-generated copies of human faces at scale. The people who employ that tool can hunt down deepfakes and manage those unauthorized videos. Essentially, YouTube’s take on likeness detection operates similarly to Content ID hub. It’s a matching service that puts more power in the hands of rights holders.
Source: YouTube’s war on deepfakes goes global: Likeness detection is now open to all
The 79th Cannes may go down as the time the world’s grandest film festival for the first time wrestled with the onset of AI — its arrival has been felt like a tsunami on the French Riviera. Its potential to remake the movie industry, for good or bad, has been an ongoing debate since the festival opened. And in many quarters, the tone is softening.
Source: Tool or threat? Cannes Film Festival grapples with the rise of AI
Is the music industry leaving value on the table and setting itself back by failing to embrace generative AI? Warner Music head Robert Kyncl believes so. “My point, and I’ve said this publicly multiple times, is that the industry had reacted far too slowly” to the advent of the internet, Kyncl communicated. “It was on its heels, defensive, and because of that, it took really until 2014 for the streaming services to really take off. “There was just a lot of value destruction basically for well over a decade. And it was just caused by very defensive behavior and slow movement forward.”
Tamber, which Wrenn has described previously as an “Adobe Creative Suite for music,” uses artificial intelligence to transform feelings, colors, sounds and other descriptive text into musical ideas, and Wrenn believes it could be the antidote to the rise of generative AI tools that are training on “stolen data” and dominating the market right now.
Source: Meet Tamber, an AI Music Platform Whose Founder Isn’t Interested in ‘Blatantly Robbing’ Musicians
For the past several years, the AI industry has largely operated on the premise that intelligence lives in language. Large language models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude reflect that bet. Runway, alongside other competitors, is making a different one. Its founders believe the next form of AI intelligence won’t be built from text, but from video and world models that learn how the world works, not just how humans describe it.
Source: Runway started by helping filmmakers — now it wants to beat Google at AI
AI film-makers stand on the brink of a breakthrough that backers believe will unleash a new wave of creativity. A new cadre, no longer blocked by red lights from studios, feel liberated. They don’t care that the Oscars and the Cannes film festival have in recent weeks ruled AI out of the running for some of their most prestigious prizes. But the rising movement triggers despair for critics who fume about “ugly slop” and “AI sludge”, robots replacing human creativity and copyright piracy in AI model training.
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Yes, celebrities are making all sorts of cringey comments on AI, but lambasting them for acknowledging the technology is here, likely already endemic, and even comes with some compelling use cases isn’t progressing the conversation. AI is currently shaping our digital and material lives in ways that are useful and exciting and noxious and terrifying, often through mechanisms that are mostly beyond the consumptive or creative purview of any one person.
Demi Moore weighed into the debate surrounding artificial intelligence during the Cannes Film Festival jury press conference on Tuesday, saying that “AI is here” and Hollywood should “find ways in which we can work with it.” Asked her thoughts on how AI is impacting the movie business, Moore said, “I always feel that against-ness breeds against-ness. AI is here. And so to fight it is to fight something that is a battle that we will lose. So to find ways in which we can work with it I think is a more valuable path to take.”
Source: Demi Moore Says Hollywood Must ‘Find Ways’ to Work With AI
The world of AI entertainment is getting thornier and more divided with each passing day. The Oscars represent a visible flashpoint, but more consequential AI battles are being fought off-camera — including at elite film schools and cultural institutions. From USC to NYU’s Tisch to CalArts, AI is being added to grants, software access and curriculum design, often in direct partnership with the companies building AI tools — including Adobe, Google and Runway, among others.
Source: USC to NYU: AI’s Stealth Film School Takeover Has Begun
Tencent Music Entertainment, China’s largest music streaming service provider, says it took down more than 250,000 policy-violating songs and reviewed over 600,000 cases involving “high-risk copyright content” across its platforms last year. The figures come as TME said it bolstered compliance and risk management across key areas in 2025, including copyright licensing, emerging AI risks, and its overseas business expansion.
Source: Tencent Music took down over 250,000 songs amid ’emerging AI risks’