Technology

Bookwire Offers ‘Protection’ From Wrongful AI Usage

If rights holders don’t want their content to be used for the training of language models, they must attach a legally compliant, machine-readable usage reservation (TDM opt-out) to their content. “Effective immediately, all ebooks and audiobooks distributed by Bookwire,” the company says in its statement, “will be equipped with a TDM opt-out notice in ONIX data. Additionally, the TDM opt-out is stored in the metadata of all EPUBs that we deliver via the TDMRep protocol.”

Source: Frankfurt Countdown: Bookwire Offers ‘Protection’ From Wrongful AI Usage

Spotify’s investment in video creators reveals its format agnosticism

Spotify’s increased attention on video is no secret, but the company’s willingness to invest heavily in content creators whose primary focus is not audio does shed light on the company’s larger ambitions. By investing in video creators, Spotify is no longer just trying to bring audio listeners onto the platform. The company is now trying to bring video watchers onto the platform, suggesting Spotify’s video ambitions go beyond using video as an audio accessory.

Source: Beyond video podcasts: Spotify’s investment in video creators reveals its format agnosticism

OpenAI exec rules out sharing revenue from SearchGPT with publishers, for now

OpenAI’s head of media partnerships has said it does not currently intend to share SearchGPT ad revenue with publishers. But he added that the matter was “an evolving space for us right now” and that it was in OpenAI’s interests to provide enough value to stop publishers opting out of appearing in SearchGPT results.

Source: OpenAI exec rules out sharing revenue from SearchGPT with publishers, for now

Is generative AI doomed? An expert’s take on the “model collapse” theory

The current crop of generative AI systems needs high quality data, and lots of it. To source this data, big tech companies continually scour the internet, scooping up terabytes of content to feed the machines. But since the advent of widely available and useful generative AI systems in 2022, people are increasingly uploading and sharing content that is made, in part or whole, by AI.

Source: Is generative AI doomed? An expert’s take on the “model collapse” theory

AI challenge asks journalists to pitch for help to solve industry challenges

Journalists and newsrooms are being called on to submit proposals for AI tools that could be used to tackle critical issues facing news publishing, including making news pay. Publishing technology experts Atex have laid down a challenge to the news industry with the launch of its AI Accelerator Program, which it hopes will be a “starting point” for changing the way journalism and artificial intelligence interact with each other.

Source: AI challenge asks journalists to pitch for help to solve industry challenges

AI vs. audio pirates: catching sophisticated copyright evasion with AI

Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks, a type of recurrent neural network, are adept at analyzing sequential data, making them ideal for detecting temporal manipulations in audio. Even transformer models, the technology behind advanced language AI like ChatGPT, are being applied to audio analysis, processing long sequences of audio data to identify complex patterns and relationships that might escape other systems.

Source: AI vs. audio pirates: catching sophisticated copyright evasion with AI

Tencent Music is ‘deploying advanced AI tools’ to crack down on infringement 

According to TME: “We believe AI should be a supportive tool rather than a substitute for musicians creating original works. We implement compliance assessments and continuous monitoring of AI products and operations to ensure that AI-generated musical content is properly licensed and musicians’ creative works are fully protected.”

Source: Tencent Music is ‘strategically deploying advanced AI tools’ to crack down on infringement amid the rise of AI-generated content

Adobe has a new tool to protect artists’ work from AI

As the engine powering the world’s digital artists, Adobe has a big responsibility to mitigate the rise of AI-driven deepfakes, misinformation, and content theft. In the first quarter of 2025, Adobe is launching its Content Authenticity web app in beta, allowing creators to apply content credentials to their work, certifying it as their own.

Source: Adobe has a new tool to protect artists’ work from AI

The Race to Block OpenAI’s Scraping Bots Is Slowing Down

It’s too soon to say how the spate of deals between AI companies and publishers will shake out. OpenAI has already scored one clear win, though: Its web crawlers aren’t getting blocked by top news outlets at the rate they once were. The generative AI boom sparked a gold rush for data—and a subsequent data-protection rush (for most news websites, anyway) in which publishers sought to block AI crawlers and prevent their work from becoming training data without consent.

Source: The Race to Block OpenAI’s Scraping Bots Is Slowing Down

Google to begin organizing some search results using AI, bringing ads to AI Overviews

On Thursday the company announced it will start rolling out AI-organized search results pages for users in the US. Importantly for both investors and advertisers, Google also said it’s adding ads to its AI-powered AI Overviews in Search, as well as an updated look for AI Overviews that the company says will improve traffic to linked websites.

Source: Google to begin organizing some search results using AI, bringing ads to AI Overviews

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