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Stability AI’s enterprise audio model cuts production time from weeks to minutes

Stability AI today launched Stable Audio 2.5, which the company claims to be the first audio generation model purpose-built for enterprise use. The model addresses a critical gap in enterprise AI adoption. Audio influences brand engagement, yet most companies lack the infrastructure to produce custom, on-brand audio at scale. They need audio across multiple touchpoints from advertisements to in-store experiences.

Source: Stability AI’s enterprise audio model cuts production time from weeks to minutes

How do AI models generate videos?

Let’s assume you’re a casual user. There are now a range of high-end tools that allow pro video makers to insert video generation models into their workflows. But most people will use this technology in an app or via a website. You know the drill: “Hey, Gemini, make me a video of a unicorn eating spaghetti. Now make its horn take off like a rocket.” What you get back will be hit or miss, and you’ll typically need to ask the model to take another pass or 10 before you get more or less what you wanted.

Source: How do AI models generate videos?

AI-generated film sparks copyright battle as it heads to Cannes 

OpenAI has taken a significant step into entertainment by backing Critterz, the first animated feature film generated with GPT models. Human artists sketch characters and scenes, while AI transforms them into moving images. The $30 million project, expected to finish in nine months, is far cheaper and faster than traditional animation and could debut at the Cannes Film Festival in 2026.

Source: AI-generated film sparks copyright battle as it heads to Cannes | Digital Watch Observatory

‘Existential crisis’: how Google’s shift to AI has upended the online news model

Publishers – already under financial pressure from soaring costs, falling advertising revenues, the decline of print and the wider trend of readers turning away from news – argue that they are effectively being forced by Google to either accept deals, including on how content is used in AI Overview and AI Mode, or “drop out of all search results”, according to several sources.

Source: ‘Existential crisis’: how Google’s shift to AI has upended the online news model

AI bots bombard publisher websites with ‘no meaningful value exchange’

Chris Dicker, chief executive of Candr Media Group and board member of the Independent Publishers Alliance, said that the publisher’s Trusted Reviews website was taken down multiple times on 16 August when it was scraped 1.6 million times in a day. This was up from a previous record of 1.2 million scrapes on the site a day earlier. He said the average level of AI scraping for Trusted Reviews is running at between approximately 70,000 and 100,000 times a day.

Source: AI bots bombard publisher websites with ‘no meaningful value exchange’

Reese Witherspoon Says Women Need to Be Involved in AI: It’s the ‘Future of Filmmaking’

Speaking to Glamour magazine to promote the upcoming fourth season of her Apple TV+ series “The Morning Show,” the Oscar winner said she has made it a priority in her career as a producer to always be “looking forward to how media is evolving and how I can help be part of bringing women along in those emerging industries. And now we’re doing it with AI.”

Source: Reese Witherspoon Says Women Need to Be ‘Involved in AI’ Because It’s the ‘Future of Filmmaking’: ‘You Can Lament It All You Want, but the Change Is Here’

Google is training its AI tools on YouTube videos. These creators aren’t happy

YouTube’s parent company, Google, is using a subset of the platform’s videos to train AI applications, including its text-to-video tool Veo. That includes videos made by users who have built their livelihoods on the service, helping turn it into the biggest streaming entertainment provider in the U.S. The move has sparked deep tensions between the world’s biggest online video company and some of the creators who helped make it a behemoth.

Source: Google is training its AI tools on YouTube videos. These creators aren’t happy

The new Hollywood: Runway’s AI models edge closer to simulating reality

When Runway ML started in 2018, the company’s founders envisioned using AI to aid in the creation of art. The company’s AI models were among the first to generate synthetic video for movies like Everything Everywhere All at Once. But as Runway’s models have improved, they’ve begun to do something unexpected: model the laws of physics simply by observing two-dimensional video.

Source: The new Hollywood: Runway’s AI models edge closer to simulating reality

The EU Is Trying to Build Guardrails on AI. Experts Say It Hasn’t Gone Far Enough

The “tsunami” of AI use cases and the risks for creators and copyright protections that it brings with it were in the spotlight at the CineLink industry section of the 31st edition of the Sarajevo Film Festival on Thursday. “Everybody’s using AI, and I’m wondering how much this AI super brain is giving directions on creativity.”

Source: The European Union Is Trying to Build Guardrails on AI. Experts Say It Hasn’t Gone Far Enough

Fraudsters Are Releasing AI Music Under Real Musicians’ Names

Usually when AI-generated music rears its head, it usually appears under fake names, or tries to imitate major artists but without actually appearing on their official channels. However, there’s a steadily growing trend of established (but notably not “superstar”) artists being targeted by fake music appearing on their official streaming pages. Even artists who have long since passed away are suddenly having “new” material, generated by AI, appearing on their catalogs.

Source: Fraudsters Are Releasing AI Music Under Real Musicians’ Names

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