Technology

Is AI the Bitter End—or the Lucrative Future—of Book Publishing?

Throughout its history, the publishing industry has always needed a boogeyman to represent new developments threatening the good old way of doing things. “Barnes & Noble was that for a while because it was a chain and because they had centralized bookselling,” says Boris Kachka, author of Hothouse: The Art of Survival and the Survival of Art at America’s Most Celebrated Publishing House. “Then Amazon became the big bad guy, and Barnes & Noble looked old-school all of a sudden.”

Source: Is AI the Bitter End—or the Lucrative Future—of Book Publishing?

Beatport and Beatdapp team up to tackle music-streaming fraud

 

Anti-fraud startup Beatdapp continues to make headlines with its data on just how many music streams might be illegitimate – most recently in a Sky News story suggesting that criminals might be making up to $3bn a year from streaming fraud. Now the company has announced its latest partnership with a music service trying to tackle this. Electronic music-focused DSP Beatport is going to be using Beatdapp’s fraud-detection technology.

Source: Beatport and Beatdapp team up to tackle music-streaming fraud

YouTube will use AI to snip copyrighted music and not silence your whole video

YouTube is turning to artificial intelligence to try to simultaneously appease copyright holders of songs while making life a little easier for those who upload videos with songs they don’t have permission to use. Instead of just taking down a video with copyrighted audio the uploader doesn’t own, they can use a new AI tool to remove the protected song without erasing the rest of the video’s audio track.

Source: YouTube will use AI to snip copyrighted music and not silence your whole video

Hollywood Stars to Narrate Audio Content Posthumously 

In a move that blends Hollywood nostalgia with cutting-edge technology, a new frontier is being charted by AI company ElevenLabs. They’re set to revive the voices of iconic Hollywood stars like Judy Garland, James Dean, and Burt Reynolds for their latest Reader app, slated to transform written text into dynamic audio experiences.

Source: Hollywood Stars to Narrate Audio Content Posthumously — AI In Hollywood

New AI Training Technique Is Drastically Faster, Says Google 

Google’s DeepMind researchers have unveiled a new method to accelerate AI training, significantly reducing the computational resources and time needed to do the work. This new approach to the typically energy-intensive process could make AI development both faster and cheaper, according to a recent research paper—and that could be good news for the environment.

Source: New AI Training Technique Is Drastically Faster, Says Google – Decrypt

Tool preventing AI mimicry cracked; artists wonder what’s next

Designed to help prevent style mimicry and even poison AI models to discourage data scraping without an artist’s consent or compensation, The Glaze Project’s tools are now in higher demand than ever. But just as Glaze’s userbase is spiking, a bigger priority for the Glaze Project has emerged: protecting users from attacks disabling Glaze’s protections—including attack methods exposed in June by online security researchers in Zurich, Switzerland.

Source: Tool preventing AI mimicry cracked; artists wonder what’s next

AI Content Detectors Don’t Work (The Biggest Mistakes They Have Made)

A copywriter ran the Declaration of Independence through an AI content detector. The result? It’s 98.51% AI-generated, despite being written in 1776. But is this mistake a one-off, or reflective of AI content detectors in general? “AI content detectors don’t work,” said Dianna Mason, SEO content specialist whose research uncovered the Declaration of Independence assessment.

Source: AI Content Detectors Don’t Work (The Biggest Mistakes They Have Made)

As Apple and OpenAI Grow Partnership, Studios Stand on Sidelines of AI Battle

Apple’s growing partnership with OpenAI further calls into question the standing of major studios and the Motion Picture Association, which counts Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery and Netflix among its members, on issues related to the use of intellectual property to train AI systems. Studios stand as among the most notable groups that’ve chosen not to sue AI companies, which could be using copyright-protected material in training data

Source: As Apple and OpenAI Grow Partnership, Studios Stand on Sidelines of AI Battle

Over 50 music companies join campaign to promote musicians amid generative AI growth

Over 50 music organizations have thrown their support behind the Principles for Music Creation with AI, a campaign spearheaded by Roland Corporation and Universal Music Group to safeguard musicians’ rights in the era of generative AI. Introduced in March, these principles provide a framework for the responsible use of AI in music creation, emphasizing the protection of the “human spirit” and creativity in music.

Source: Over 50 music companies join Roland and Universal in campaign to promote musicians amid generative AI growth

New AI algorithm flags deepfakes with 98% accuracy 

With the release of artificial intelligence(AI) video generation products like Sora and Luma, we’re on the verge of a flood of AI-generated video content, and policymakers, public figures and software engineers are already warning about a deluge of deepfakes. Now it seems that AI itself might be our best defense against AI fakery after an algorithm has identified telltale markers of AI videos with over 98% accuracy.

Source: New AI algorithm flags deepfakes with 98% accuracy

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