Technology

Spines aims to ‘disrupt’ industry by using AI to publish 8,000 books in 2025 alone

A new publisher has claimed it aims to “disrupt” the books industry by publishing 8,000 books in 2025 alone using artificial intelligence (AI). Spines, founded in 2021 but which published its first titles this year, is a startup technology business which—for a fee—is offering the use of AI to proofread, produce, publish and distribute books.

Source: New publisher Spines aims to ‘disrupt’ industry by using AI to publish 8,000 books in 2025 alone

Soundverse AI attracts 200k creators with ‘ethical practices’

AI music startup Soundverse AI has attracted more than 200,000 creators to its service, who have made more than 500k tracks so far. The startup revealed the figures in an announcement that also stressed its “ethically trained AI model”, with the company saying it has only trained its technology “by securing explicit artist consent and compensating contributors”.

Source: Soundverse AI attracts 200k creators with ‘ethical practices’

Nvidia shows AI model that can modify voices, generate novel sounds

Nvidia on Monday showed a new artificial intelligence model for generating music and audio that can modify voices and generate novel sounds – technology aimed at the producers of music, films and video games. It joins other technologies shown by startups such as Runway and larger players such as Meta Platforms that can generate audio or video from a text prompt.

Source: Nvidia shows AI model that can modify voices, generate novel sounds

AI Music Is More Realistic Than Ever: Meet Suno’s New Model

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

DMG Media invests in publisher-friendly generative AI start-up Prorata

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 Expands AI Integrations With Tuney, Pex, Audible Magic Partnerships

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

AI Studio Startup Promise Raises Funding From Peter Chernin, Andreessen Horowitz

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.

Source: Promise, a Generative AI Studio Startup, Raises Seed Funding From Peter Chernin, Andreessen Horowitz: ‘This Is a Transformational Moment in Entertainment’

Agents, Authors Question HarperCollins AI Deal

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.”

Source: Agents, Authors Question HarperCollins AI Deal

There’s No Longer Any Doubt That Hollywood Writing Is Powering AI

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

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