A team of researchers at the University of Texas at Austin wanted to determine if audio clips alone are sufficient for AI to understand the visual characteristics of its environment, a skill once thought to be exclusive to humans. The team used generative AI to successfully convert sounds from audio recordings into street-view images.
Source: AI Generates Accurate Images of Streets From Sound Recordings
AI has the power to pump out words in record speed. And already, that’s substantially inflating the book publishing market. Lovers of LLMs are pushing into the traditional publishing system, building their own book-publishing entities. They’re jump-starting their own publishing imprints, and self-publishing books (often slop) on digital marketplaces.
Source: How AI is accelerating—and devaluing—book publishing
Spotify has limited third-party developers’ access to its internal data, sparking speculation that the move is meant to prevent user and music data from being used to train AI models. In a Spotify for Developers blog post, the streaming service announced that third-party developers will no longer be able to access certain kinds of data from Spotify.
Source: Are Spotify’s changes to third-party developer access meant to combat AI scraping?
Source: Amazon develops video AI model, The Information reports
With artificial intelligence at a pivotal moment of development, the federal government is about to transition from one that prioritized AI safeguards to one more focused on eliminating red tape. That’s a promising prospect for some investors but creates uncertainty about the future of any guardrails on the technology, especially around the use of AI deepfakes in elections and political campaigns.
Source: As U.S. government pivots to full Republican control, the outlook is uncertain for AI regulations
OpenAI granted early access to Sora, its new generative-AI video tool, to some 300 visual artists and filmmakers to “gain feedback” on the technology. The tech company got it — but not the kind it was hoping for. On Tuesday, a group of Sora testers released a version of the tool publicly alongside a manifesto decrying OpenAI’s program as exploitative and “more about PR and advertisement.”
Durst and Limp Bizkit sued UMG last month, claiming that the major music company “designed and implemented royalty software and systems that were deliberately designed to conceal artists’ (including Plaintiffs’) royalties and keep those profits for itself.” In a motion to dismiss filed in California on Friday (November 22), UMG writes that Durst et al.’s “complaint is based on a fallacy” and “should be dismissed with prejudice”.
The oral arguments in Thaler explored the contours of “traditional authorship” through two illuminating hypotheticals posed by Judge Millett: the Kodak camera and the printer malfunction. These examples help map a spectrum of human involvement in creative works and highlight the challenges in placing AI-generated works within existing doctrine.
Source: The Art of Attribution and Three Unlikely Theories of AI Authorship
SAG-AFTRA and the video game companies are resuming contract negotiations for the first time since video game actors went on strike. SAG-AFTRA is seeking a contract that will require game developers to obtain informed consent and compensate video game performers when using the technology to digitally replicate their voices, movements or likenesses.
Source: Hollywood unions are facing an uphill battle against Trump, AI and the slowdown