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All authors are influenced – consciously or unconsciously – by what they have read or seen before. In fact, this has often been seen as one of the defining features of literary creation. Seneca the Younger argued that, just as bees make honey and wax from the pollen of flowers they leave behind, so writers should craft new works from the materials they encounter in their reading. As T.S. Eliot wryly put it, ‘immature poets imitate, mature poets steal. This being so, can we really draw such a line between literary borrowing and AI-powered appropriation? 

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“Backrooms” is part of a growing wave of breakout films from fledgling directors who honed their instincts on YouTube rather than inside the Hollywood ecosystem. Two other creators with no Hollywood track record — Curry Barker and Mark Fischbach — have already turned online followings into surprise box-office hits this year. “It’s not an anomaly,” Stephen Galloway, the dean of Chapman University’s film school, said in a phone interview. “It’s the start of a gigantic shift. These are the cinematic insurgents of our era.”

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In Spotify’s rapidly evolving quest to become the home of everything audio-related, the company announced on Tuesday that it’s bringing narrated long-form magazine articles to its app. The articles will be available to Premium subscribers as part of their 15 hours of audiobook listening time per month. Free users can opt to purchase stand-alone articles for $1.99.

Source: Spotify now lets you stream narrated magazine articles, too

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.

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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