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n a collaboration with YouTube and some artists, songwriters, and producers, Google has developed a suite of music AI tools it is calling Music AI Sandbox. Google says the new tools are designed to “open a new playground for creativity” and giving people a way to create instrumental sections from scratch with no prior music knowledge needed.
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The Battle Over Using Journalism to Build AI Models is Just Starting
ChatGPT will tell you that the news is factual, includes language variation and cultural awareness, comprises complex sentence structures, includes quotes that convey real-world conversations, excels at summarization and condensation. In fact, the news is so valuable to this endeavor that it makes up half of the top 10 sites incorporated into one of Google’s datasets that is being used to train some of the most popular large language models.
Source: The Battle Over Using Journalism to Build AI Models is Just Starting | Nieman Reports
Sony Music Warns AI Developers Not to Use Its Content for Training
Sony Music Group is sending out warnings to what sources say are around 700 AI developers and music streaming services, warning them not to use its content to train AI. These so-called “opt-out” letters, which have been obtained by Variety, state that developers will need explicit permission to use that content and warns that some may already be in violation.
Source: Sony Music Warns AI Developers Not to Use Its Content for Training
Web publishers brace for carnage as Google adds AI answers
The tech giant is rolling out AI-generated answers that displace links to human-written websites. The product, dubbed “Search Generative Experience,” or SGE, directly answers queries with complex, multi-paragraph replies that push links to other websites further down the page, where they’re less likely to be seen. The shift stands to shake the very foundations of the web.
Source: Web publishers brace for carnage as Google adds AI answers
TikTok is adding an “AI-generated” label to watermarked third-party content
TikTok already automatically applies an “AI-generated” tag to content on its platform made using TikTok’s AI tools, and that same label will now apply to content created on other platforms. Now, TikTok will detect when images or videos are uploaded to its platform containing metadata tags indicating the presence of AI-generated content and says it’s the first social media platform to support the new Content Credentials.
Source: TikTok is adding an “AI-generated” label to watermarked third-party content
OpenAI destroyed a trove of books used to train AI models
Newly unsealed documents in the class-action lawsuit brought by the Authors Guild against OpenAI show the startup deleted two huge datasets, named “books1” and “books2,” that had been used to train its GPT-3 artificial-intelligence model. Lawyers for the Authors Guild said in court filings that the datasets probably contained “more than 100,000 published books.”
Big Tech is eating as much data as it can to win in AI — but it’s not ‘winner takes all’
Big technology companies are consuming as much data as possible to become winners in artificial intelligence — but that’s not necessarily what will define winners. Appian CEO Matt Calkins says that ensuring success in the field is “not just about money.” “AI is not a place where money makes more money,” Calkins told CNBC in an interview at its London bureau on Tuesday.
Source: Big Tech is eating as much data as it can to win in AI — but it’s not ‘winner takes all,’ CEO says
AI Film Festival Shows Increasing AI Integration in Filmmaking
The intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and filmmaking has transitioned from mere novelty to a substantial tool within the industry, and this evolution was on full display at the second annual AI Film Festival hosted by Runway AI Inc. in Los Angeles. The event showcased a tenfold increase in submissions, jumping from 300 to 3,000 videos since last year, reflecting a growing interest and investment in AI-driven filmmaking.
Source: AI Film Festival Shows Increasing AI Integration in Filmmaking — AI In Hollywood
Can Regulation Deep Six Deepfakes?
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a basic science and research arm of the Commerce Department best known, if at all, for tackling knotty challenges like accurately centering quantum dots in photonic chips and developing standard reference materials for measuring the contents of human poop used in medical research and treatments, last week took up the problem of identifying AI generated and manipulated audio, video, images and text.
Tasked by President Biden’s Executive Order on AI with helping to improve the safety, security and trustworthiness of AI systems, NIST has issued a GenAI Challenge inviting teams of researchers from academia, industry and other research labs to participate in a series of challenges intended to evaluate systems and methods of identifying synthetic content.
Researchers investigating generative AI and scholarly publishing
Since generative AI is still so new—ChatGPT went public in late 2022 and had 100 million monthly active users within two months—there’s not much uniformity across higher education about if or how students and faculty members should use it to aid in the completion of assignments and research papers. A new study by Ithaka S+R seeks to gain insight into the technology’s potential to transform the production of academic scholarship.
Source: Researchers investigating generative AI and scholarly publishing