Even as it faces a lawsuit from the recording industry for using countless copyrighted songs to train its music-generating AI model, Suno has become the fifth most-used generative-AI service in the world — and the company is still pushing its technology forward. A new, notably more realistic model, V4, is available today to paid subscribers, and will eventually reach all users.
Source: AI Music Is More Realistic Than Ever: Meet Suno’s New Model
Daily Mail publisher DMG Media has made a “significant investment” in Prorata.ai, a generative artificial intelligence platform that plans to share revenue with publishers each time their content is used to answer a user query. The deal gives Prorata access to DMG Media’s content, which includes the archives of the Mail, Mail Online, Metro, the i and New Scientist.
Source: DMG Media invests in publisher-friendly generative AI start-up Prorata
SoundCloud users will have access to six new assistive AI tools, including Tuney, Tuttii, AIBeatz, TwoShot, Starmony and ACE Studio. The company is also using Audible Magic and Pex to ensure that these new AI integrations are backed up by strong content identification tools that provide rights holders with proper credit and compensation.
Source: SoundCloud Expands AI Integrations With Tuney, Pex, Audible Magic Partnerships
Promise says it will produce films and TV shows and “pioneer new formats, empowering both gen AI artists and established Hollywood talent to bring ambitious, creative visions to life.” A key piece of the startup’s business model is proprietary software that will facilitate “a reimagined production process.” The company’s trio of founders have digital-media bona fides.
HarperCollins has become the first Big Five publisher to strike a licensing deal to provide access to select nonfiction books for AI training purposes. And so far, authors and agents appear to be approaching the deal with caution and skepticism—if also with a measure of hope. In a statement, Harper representatives confirmed only that the agreement with an undisclosed company will “allow limited use of select nonfiction backlist titles” for use in training AI models “to improve model quality and performance.”
Dialogue from these movies and TV shows has been used by companies such as Apple and Anthropic to train AI systems. The files within this data set are not scripts, exactly. Rather, they are subtitles taken from a website called OpenSubtitles.org. Users of the site typically extract subtitles from DVDs, Blu-ray discs, and internet streams using optical-character-recognition (OCR) software.
Source: There’s No Longer Any Doubt That Hollywood Writing Is Powering AI
People write with personal style and individual flourishes that set them apart from other writers. So does AI, including top programs like Chat GPT, new Johns Hopkins University-led research finds. A new tool can not only detect writing created by AI, it can predict which large language model created it.
Sir David Attenborough does not approve of AI being used to replicate his voice, telling BBC News he is ‘profoundly disturbed’ by the technology. “Having spent a lifetime trying to speak what I believe to be the truth, I am profoundly disturbed to find that these days, my identity is being stolen by others and greatly object to them using it to say whatever they wish.”
What is the nature of intelligence of LLMs and the artificial intelligence (AI) systems built on them? The disagreements in the AI world on how to think about LLMs are starkly revealed in this diverse array of metaphors. Given our limited understanding of the impressive feats and unpredictable errors of these systems, it has been argued that “metaphors are all we have for the moment to circle that black box.”
The Wall Street Journal is experimenting with AI-generated article summaries that appear at the top of its news stories. The summaries appear as a “Key Points” box with bullets summarizing the piece. The Verge spotted the test on a story about Trump’s plans for the Department of Education, and the Journal confirmed it’s trialing the feature to see how readers respond.
Source: The Wall Street Journal is testing AI article summaries