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Adobe execs say artists need to embrace AI or get left behind

Adobe is going all in on generative AI models and tools, even if that means turning away creators who dislike the technology. Artists who refuse to embrace AI in their work are “not going to be successful in this new world without using it,” says Alexandru Costin, vice president of generative AI at Adobe. “Our goal is to make our customers successful, and we think that in order for them to be successful, they need to embrace the tech.”

Source: Adobe execs say artists need to embrace AI or get left behind

Open-source AI must reveal its training data, per new OSI definition

The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has released its official definition of “open” artificial intelligence, setting the stage for a clash with tech giants like Meta — whose models don’t fit the rules. OSI has long set the industry standard for what constitutes open-source software, but AI systems include elements that aren’t covered by conventional licenses, like model training data.

Source: Open-source AI must reveal its training data, per new OSI definition

GEMA Unveils AI Licensing Model Details, Including Developer Fee

GEMA has officially revealed some of the details behind its licensing model, including a mandatory fee, for generative AI platforms. Payments should also be made for “all economic benefits that can arise from the subsequent use of AI-generated music,” including in public establishments and on streaming services, because this music resulted from an initial library of protected media, according to GEMA.

Source: GEMA Unveils AI Licensing Model Details, Including Developer Fee

Microsoft’s AI demand under scrutiny as investors seek payday

Microsoft is expected to report its slowest quarterly revenue growth in a year on Wednesday, while investors await signs of AI demand amid growing worries about the slow payoff from hefty investments in the technology. There’s “a wall of worry” around Microsoft’s earnings, Morgan Stanley analysts said, pointing to “ramping capital expenditures, margin compression, lack of evidence on AI returns, and messiness post a financial resegmentation.”

Source: Microsoft’s AI demand under scrutiny as investors seek payday

UK prime minister: AI companies should pay publishers for content

Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said in a letter to the News Media Association that his government “recognizes the basic principle” that publishers should seek compensation for the use of their content by artificial intelligence companies. Marking the start of the NMA‘s annual “Journalism Matters” week, the Labour leader said both AI and the media were “central” to the government’s growth goals and he hoped to “rebalance” the relationship between platforms and publishers using the Digital Markets and Consumers Act.

Source: Keir Starmer: AI companies should pay publishers for content

Universal Music Strikes Strategic Deal With “Ethical AI Music Company” Klay Vision

Universal Music Group, led by chairman and CEO Lucian Grainge, is teaming up with L.A.-based AI music company Klay Vision on what they described as “a pioneering commercial ethical foundational model for AI-generated music that works in collaboration with the music industry and its creators.” The two companies said that they share “the conviction that state-of-the-art foundational AI models are best built and scaled responsibly through constructive dialogue and consensus.”

Source: Universal Music Strikes Strategic Deal With “Ethical AI Music Company” Klay Vision

Forget AI image generators, an autonomous AI artist just made $351,600 at Sotheby’s

One of the assurances we’re often given in responses to the fear that AI image generators could replace human artists is that there will always need to be a human involved. Generative AI needs a human creative to tell it what to do. But don’t tell that to Botto, a fully autonomous ‘AI artist’ who just raked in $351,600 in sales at the auction house Sotheby’s, setting a new milestone in the history of AI art.

Source: Forget AI image generators, an autonomous AI artist just made $351,600 at Sotheby’s

Google open-sourced its watermarking tool for AI-generated text

Google’s SynthID text watermarking technology, a tool the company created to make AI-generated text easier to identify, is now available open-source through the Google Responsible Generative AI Toolkit, the company announced on X. Watermarks have become increasingly important tools as large language models are used to spread political misinformation, generate nonconsensual sexual content, and for other malicious purposes.

Source: Google open-sourced its watermarking tool for AI-generated text

Meet Hollywood’s AI Doomsayer: Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt emerged Tuesday as one of Hollywood’s most vocal critics of artificial intelligence, saying the new technology represents a threat to the work he and other performers do. “The sleight of hand of calling something ‘artificial intelligence’ makes you ignore the fact that these were created by humans,” he said in an interview at The Wall Street Journal’s Tech Live. The companies have to answer for the years of work they are using to train models now valued in the billions of dollars, he said.

Source: Meet Hollywood’s AI Doomsayer: Joseph Gordon-Levitt

More than 10,500 actors, musicians and authors protest tech’s AI data grab

More than 10,500 creative professionals, including Thom Yorke from Radiohead, actress Julianne Moore and Nobel Prize-winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, have signed an open letter condemning “unlicensed use of creative works” to develop artificial intelligence systems such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Use of creative work without a license for AI development is “a major, unjust threat to the livelihoods of the people behind those works, and must not be permitted,” the brief, 29-word letter says.

Source: More than 10,500 actors, musicians and authors protest tech’s AI data grab

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