People appear to be using Google’s new Gemini model to remove watermarks from images, according to reports on social media. Last week, Google expanded access to its Gemini 2.0 Flash model’s image generation feature, which lets the model natively generate and edit image content. It’s a powerful capability, by all accounts. But it also appears to have few guardrails.
Source: People are using Google’s new AI model to remove watermarks from images | TechCrunch
Eric Shamlin, Television Academy governor and chair of its AI Task Force, urged members to take on an advocacy role in developing AI policies and frameworks, during a keynote at Saturday’s TV Academy AI Summit. “We must now lead,” he asserted. “We can’t afford to sit back and wait for others to shape how AI is implemented into our industry.”
Source: ‘We Must Now Lead’ Warns TV Academy Governor Eric Shamlin at AI Summit
Stanley ‘Artgerm’ Lau is one of the most established comic artists working today, he’s worked for Marvel, DC Comics and game publishers including Capcom and Square Enix. but the issues around generative AI and art haven’t escaped him. For Stanley, AI and its uses in art is a straightforward one – AI isn’t art, it can’t make art, and it isn’t creative. “I don’t agree that AI images are art,” Stanley states firmly.
Amid all the arguments about AI and copyright, it’s encouraging to see some companies making ethical training part of their launch pitches. An example outside music this week is Moonvalley, a US startup that has just unveiled its Marey AI video model. It’s billed as “the first fully clean AI model” with the company claiming it has only been trained on “owned or fully licensed source data”.
Source: Moonvalley’s Marey AI-video model was trained on licensed content
Bria, a visual gen AI platform built on what it says is “100% licensed data” has closed $40 million in Series B funding, bringing its total capital raised to $65 million. The company says it will also use the funds to widen the application of its patented attribution engine beyond images to music, video, and text generation.
Source: Bria raises $40m to expand patented attribution engine to AI-generated music content
Google’s launch last week of a new ‘AI Mode’ on search in the US appears to abandon its previous position as a friend to publishers. The tech giant, which made $265bn (£205bn) in media revenue last year, is introducing an AI information delivery system built entirely on information taken from content creators without their permission, showing disregard for the health of the media ecosystem on which it relies.
Source: With launch of AI Mode Google threatens to bleed news media dry
In a ruling filed on Friday (March 7), US District JudgeVince Chhabriagranted in part and denied in part Meta’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit. The judge ruled that the authors’ claim under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) over alleged removal of copyright management information (CMI) can go forward. “The plaintiffs have adequately alleged that Meta intentionally removed [copyright management information] to conceal copyright infringement,” Judge Chhabria wrote.
Source: Sarah Silverman’s Meta copyright lawsuit advances as judge allows authors’ DMCA claims
The latest revision of the Code is billed as having “a more streamlined structure with refined commitments and measures” compared to earlier iterations, based on feedback on the second draft that was published in December. Further feedback, working group discussions and workshops will feed into the process of turning the third draft into final guidance. And the experts say they hope to achiever greater “clarity and coherence” in the final adopted version of the Code.
Cinelytic, developer of an AI-driven data analytics platform for the entertainment industry, acquired Jumpcut Media, an AI firm that develops IP management and audience analysis tools. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. “With the addition of Jumpcut’s powerful technology, Cinelytic tools become an even more essential tool for studios, producers, and executives looking to make strategic, well-informed content decisions,” said Tobias Queisser, co-founder & CEO of Cinelytic .
Source: Cinelytic Expands AI Entertainment Analytics Platform With Acquisition of Jumpcut (EXCLUSIVE)
Voice cloning AI technology has made remarkable strides in recent years, and many services can effectively mimic a person’s cadence with only a few seconds of sample audio. A new survey of the six leading publicly available AI voice cloning tools found that five have easily bypassable safeguards, making it simple to clone a person’s voice without their consent. Deepfake audio detection software often struggles to tell the difference between real and synthetic voices.
Source: AI can steal your voice, and there’s not much you can do about it