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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

Spotify reveals UK-specific streaming royalties data

Earlier this year, Spotify released its annual Loud & Clear report which rounded up global royalties data. Now, Spotify has unveiled UK-specific equivalent data. The UK figures include the overarching (royalties generated by UK artists from Spotify exceeded £750M in 2023) and drill down to artist-level (the number of UK artists who generated over £10,000 and £50,000 in royalties from Spotify in 2023 has doubled since 2017).

Source: Spotify reveals UK-specific streaming royalties data

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.”

Source: OpenAI destroyed a trove of books used to train AI models. The employees who collected the data are gone.

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

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

Randy Travis returns with new song thanks to Warner’s AI experiment

Country music legend Randy Travis, who has been battling limited speech for over a decade following a debilitating stroke, surprised fans with the release of his first new song in over a decade. The song called Where That Came From, was released on the occasion of his 65th birthday in collaboration with Warner Music Nashville. Warner saw an opportunity to utilize AI “for good” with its effort to restore Travis’ voice.

Source: Randy Travis returns with new song thanks to Warner’s AI experiment

This Week in AI: Generative AI and the problem of compensating creators

A recently published research paper co-authored by Boaz Barak, a scientist on OpenAI’s Superalignment team, proposes a framework to compensate copyright owners “proportionally to their contributions to the creation of AI-generated content.” How? Through cooperative game theory.

Source: This Week in AI: Generative AI and the problem of compensating creators | TechCrunch

Moonbirds Copyright Controversy Exposes Flaws in Crypto’s IP Obsession 

It has never been resolved what exactly IP means in such a context, nor to what extent NFT projects can bestow IP rights onto their holders. Those unanswered questions bubbled back to the surface this week, when Yuga Labs—the multi-billion dollar company behind Bored Ape Yacht Club—announced that it planned to bestow exclusive commercial rights onto holders of Moonbirds.

Source: Moonbirds Copyright Controversy Exposes Flaws in Crypto’s IP Obsession – Decrypt

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