Eric Day, Benjamin Michel, and Nick Confalone have launched LA-based Late Night Labs with Poker Face star Natasha Lyonne and Blue Beetle director Angel Manuel Soto among its advisors. The trio are using generative AI in the creative process but are hoping that the new technology can also provide artists with “tangible ownership” with what they create.
Source: Filmmakers Launch AI Studio Late Night Labs With Help From Natasha Lyonne & Angel Manuel Soto
European Union member states on Tuesday gave final agreement to the world’s first major law for regulating artificial intelligence, as institutions around the world race to introduce curbs for the technology. The EU Council said it had approved the AI Act — a groundbreaking piece of regulatory law that sets comprehensive rules surrounding artificial intelligence technology.
Source: World’s first major law for artificial intelligence gets final EU green light
Source: Hollywood agency CAA aims to help stars manage their own AI likenesses
For every project that has faced blowback for using AI in some part of the production pipeline, there are dozens more that have quietly adopted the technology. “There are tons of people who are using AI, but they can’t admit it publicly because you still need artists for a lot of work and they’re going to turn against you,” says David Stripinis, a VFX industry veteran.
Source: Hollywood at a Crossroads: “Everyone Is Using AI, But They Are Scared to Admit It”
It’s believed to the first lawsuit against an AI firm over the use of likenesses to train an AI system and marks a growing rift between creators and companies alleged to indiscriminately hoover troves of data to power their technology. The lawsuit seeks to represent other voiceover artists who believe their voices were misappropriated by LOVO.
Source: Actors Hit AI Startup With Class Action Lawsuit Over Voice Theft
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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.
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 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
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 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