Nick Cave isn’t too impressed with ChatGPT’s capacity for music. On his personal blog, the singer-songwriter gave a withering rebuke to a set of lyrics written by the AI chatbot “in the style of” Nick Cave. “What ChatGPT is, in this instance, is replication as travesty,” writes Cave. “ChatGPT may be able to write a speech or an essay or a sermon or an obituary but it cannot create a genuine song.”
Source: Nick Cave says imitation ChatGPT song is ‘a grotesque mockery of what it is to be human’
A trio of artists have launched a lawsuit against Stability AI and Midjourney, creators of AI art generators Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, and artist portfolio platform DeviantArt, which recently created its own AI art generator, DreamUp. The artists — Sarah Andersen, Kelly McKernan, and Karla Ortiz — allege that these organizations have infringed the rights of “millions of artists” by training their AI tools on five billion images scraped from the web “without the consent of the original artists.”
Source: AI art tools Stable Diffusion and Midjourney targeted with copyright lawsuit
Stock photo, footage, and music provider Shutterstock has announced it will use its massive content library to help fuel Meta’s continued investment in artificial intelligence (AI) in what both companies are calling a “significant partnership.” AI “has the potential to drive an explosion of creativity,” said Paul Hennessy, Shutterstock CEO, adding that the company’s expanded relationship with Meta falls in line with recent partnerships with OpenAI and LG’s AI research lab.
Source: Digital News Daily: Meta Will Use Shutterstock’s Content Library To Inform Its AI Abilities
Far from ushering in the death of cinema, AI can help film the “unfilmable” and make cinema more collaborative. Still, AI elicits a special kind of anxiety for the film and TV industry’s creative classes. The question now on everyone’s mind is whether feature-length films made by text-to-video generators will eliminate the skilled labor of screenwriters, graphic artists, editors, and directors.
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will embark this fall on a new round of sound recovery to restore some of the world’s earliest recordings. Made possible with public-private funding through an initial grant from the Save America’s Treasures program, the work will focus on hundreds of records created by Alexander Graham Bell and his colleagues at Volta Laboratory in Washington, D.C., and at Bell’s property in Baddeck, Nova Scotia, between 1881 and 1892.
Source: National Museum of American History Will Preserve Alexander Graham
Novelty and prospecting fantasies have gotten the best of tech evangelists and thought leaders alike, causing many to hyperfocus on financial prospects while losing sight of the bigger picture. As we can see, the appeal of doing business or earning money in the metaverse just isn’t appealing to the masses.
Source: We Surveyed 1K People and Discovered That Nobody Cares About the Metaverse (Unless It’s a Game)
A panel hosted by SAG-AFTRA examined AI’s impact on Hollywood, which included discussion of AI-enabled content creation tools, deep fakes and some bold predictions. Nina Schick, author and advisor on generative AI, projected that 90 percent of content may be — at least in part — AI-generated by 2025. She further predicted that everyone in the audience would be planning to use some form of generative AI within the month.
Source: CES: Could 90 Percent of Content Be AI-Driven by 2025?
Apple quietly launched digital narration technology today that uses artificial intelligence to generate human-sounding narration for books. While it sounds like a dangerously bad idea at first — how will AI know what to emphasize, where to get excited, and where to slow down — the small samples Apple has shared sound surprisingly human. The initial target: long-tail books that will never be worth paying a human narrator for.
Source: AI Audiobooks From Apple: ‘Digital Narration Technology’ To Deliver Audio For Millions Of Books
A recent viral moment highlights just how nervous the artist community is about artificial intelligence (AI). The fear among those who shared the tweet was simple: That Photoshop, and other Adobe products, are tracking artists that use their apps to see how they work—in essence, stealing the processes and actions that graphic designers have developed over decades of work to mine for its own automated systems.
Source: Artists accuse Adobe of tracking their design process to power its AI
NFTs are entering the entertainment sector leading the way for the future of the movie viewing experience, films as collectible digital art. Movieplex.io and Cinema Libre are launching the world’s first NFT film on open sea as part of a new collection. Also, in the last quarter, Web3 cinema has joined NFTs. Blockchain TV Series RZR (Razor) by Gala Films is paving the way for Web3 cinema with its genesis drop of Film3 NFTs.