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The Seattle-based company is taking a two-pronged approach to the threat and opportunity that AI poses to its business. First, it sued a leading purveyor of AI-generated images earlier this year for what it alleged was “brazen infringement” of Getty’s image collection. But on Monday, it also joined the small but growing market of AI image makers with a new service that enables its customers to create novel images trained on Getty’s own vast library of human-made photos.

Source: Photo giant Getty took a leading AI image-maker to court. Now it’s also embracing the technology

Described by the company in a press release on Monday (September 25), as “groundbreaking”, the new AI tool can translate podcasts into additional languages — all in the podcaster’s own voice. According to Spotify, by using this tech, it can “match the original speaker’s style, making for a more authentic listening experience that sounds more personal and natural than traditional dubbing”.

Source: Spotify has developed an AI-powered voice cloning tool that can translate podcasts into multiple languages

The survey found that 71% are not currently using AI for music-related activities, while for the 29% who are, their use focuses on tasks like creating album artwork and mixing/mastering, rather than composition. 55% said they will or might use AI for music-related activities in the future, while 31% said they definitely will not use it.

Source: PRS for Music reveals first results of member survey on AI – Music Ally

The service will let creators to upload their own AI-generated tracks to the platform, while the company behind it has also worked with producers to create their own songs. Early samplings on the website ahead of the full streaming service launch point primarily to cover songs featuring unexpected—but familiar-sounding—singers thanks to AI trickery.

Source: AI Music Streaming Service Launching—Will People Pay? – Decrypt

The video platform YouTube on Thursday announced a suite of creator tools — including a number of products that take advantage of generative artificial intelligence — in a bid to further bolster its leadership in the creator ecosystem. “AI will enable people to push the boundaries of creative expression by making the difficult things simple and the impossible dreams possible,” YouTube CEO Neal Mohan said at an event at Google’s New York office Thursday morning.

Source: YouTube Adding Generative AI Tools in Creator Push

OpenAI on Wednesday began previewing a new version of its DALL-E tool, which creates images from written prompts, and announced plans to integrate it into its popular ChatGPT chatbot, increasing the reach of a controversial technology at a time when lawmakers are calling for more restraint.  Language advances allow DALL-E 3 to parse complex instructions, rather than jumbling up elements of a detailed request, researchers said Tuesday, during a short demo.

Source: OpenAI unveils better image generator, DALL-E 3, as AI arms race deepens

TikTok has debuted new AI tags that creators can apply to their content manually, and execs are preparing to label AI media automatically. “The new label will help creators showcase the innovations behind their content,” claimed TikTok, “and they can apply it to any content that has been completely generated or significantly edited by AI. It will also make it easier to comply with our Community Guidelines’ synthetic media policy, which we introduced earlier this year.”

Source: TikTok AI Content Labels Arrive As Execs Prep Automatic Tagging

Software company Digimarc will now let copyright owners add more information to their work, which the company said will improve how AI models treat copyright in training data. In a statement, Digimarc said its new Digimarc Validate service lets users include ownership identification in the metadata. The company said this means that when copyrighted material becomes part of a generative AI training dataset, users can point to the digital watermark with intellectual property information.

Source: Digimarc adds copyright information to digital data

As Hollywood actors and writers continue to strike for better pay and benefits, California lawmakers are hoping to protect workers from being replaced by their digital clones. On Wednesday, Assemblymember Ash Kalra (D-San José) is expected to introduce a bill that would give actors and artists a way to nullify provisions in vague contracts that allow studios and other companies to use artificial intelligence to digitally clone their voices, faces and bodies.

Source: California lawmakers want to protect actors from being replaced by artificial intelligence

Open generative AI company Stability AI has announced the launch of Stable Audio, the company’s first AI product for music and sound generation. A first-of-its-kind product using the latest generative AI techniques, Stable Audio aims to deliver faster, higher-quality music generation with an easy-to-use web interface.

Source: Stability AI Launches Stable Audio for AI Generating Music