Many publishers struggle to fully capitalise on the revenue potential of their digital audiences despite having various monetisation opportunities at their disposal. This shortfall stems from the internal disruption caused by digital transformation to their legacy product strategy, organisational structure, and technology infrastructure. It’s not the lack of opportunity that is holding publishers back.
Source: Monetising digital audiences: A call for alignment across strategy, teams, and tech
SoundCloud users will have access to six new assistive AI tools, including Tuney, Tuttii, AIBeatz, TwoShot, Starmony and ACE Studio. The company is also using Audible Magic and Pex to ensure that these new AI integrations are backed up by strong content identification tools that provide rights holders with proper credit and compensation.
Source: SoundCloud Expands AI Integrations With Tuney, Pex, Audible Magic Partnerships
Promise says it will produce films and TV shows and “pioneer new formats, empowering both gen AI artists and established Hollywood talent to bring ambitious, creative visions to life.” A key piece of the startup’s business model is proprietary software that will facilitate “a reimagined production process.” The company’s trio of founders have digital-media bona fides.
With the ease at which musicians can not only create and mix, but distribute and self-release their tracks, it’s unsurprising that the quantity of music now being put out into the world is significantly higher than it was a few decades ago. But, when compiling a recent deep-dive feature, we were quite surprised to discover just how big that margin has become
HarperCollins has become the first Big Five publisher to strike a licensing deal to provide access to select nonfiction books for AI training purposes. And so far, authors and agents appear to be approaching the deal with caution and skepticism—if also with a measure of hope. In a statement, Harper representatives confirmed only that the agreement with an undisclosed company will “allow limited use of select nonfiction backlist titles” for use in training AI models “to improve model quality and performance.”
Dialogue from these movies and TV shows has been used by companies such as Apple and Anthropic to train AI systems. The files within this data set are not scripts, exactly. Rather, they are subtitles taken from a website called OpenSubtitles.org. Users of the site typically extract subtitles from DVDs, Blu-ray discs, and internet streams using optical-character-recognition (OCR) software.
Source: There’s No Longer Any Doubt That Hollywood Writing Is Powering AI
AllTrack, billed as a digital-era performing rights organization (PRO) with a focus on the independent music sector, has announced the launch of a mechanical rights division. According to the company, the move makes AllTrack the first PRO in the United States to offer integrated performance and mechanical rights collection services that music creators and publishers can manage through a single platform.
Source: AllTrack — America’s 5th PRO — Opens Mechanical Rights Option
People write with personal style and individual flourishes that set them apart from other writers. So does AI, including top programs like Chat GPT, new Johns Hopkins University-led research finds. A new tool can not only detect writing created by AI, it can predict which large language model created it.
Sir David Attenborough does not approve of AI being used to replicate his voice, telling BBC News he is ‘profoundly disturbed’ by the technology. “Having spent a lifetime trying to speak what I believe to be the truth, I am profoundly disturbed to find that these days, my identity is being stolen by others and greatly object to them using it to say whatever they wish.”
What is the nature of intelligence of LLMs and the artificial intelligence (AI) systems built on them? The disagreements in the AI world on how to think about LLMs are starkly revealed in this diverse array of metaphors. Given our limited understanding of the impressive feats and unpredictable errors of these systems, it has been argued that “metaphors are all we have for the moment to circle that black box.”