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Cloud-infrastructure provider Cloudflare is debuting a new marketplace that will allow publishers to paywall their sites, forcing AI firms to drop some cash each time they want to crawl them. Why It Hits: Querying chatbots is killing the publishing industry, which relies on people actually visiting their sites in order to make money. Many publishers […]
Silicon Valley is abuzz about a list of the world’s best minds working on AI, compiled by Meta, as the tech giant pours massive amounts of money into luring them to its new superintelligence team. The Big Picture: The list of people who are actually able to work on and advance cutting-edge AI models is quite small […]
The Danish government is in the process of passing an amendment that will allow people to copyright their body, facial features, and voice — the first law of its kind in Europe. Why It Hits: Even though nonconsensual deepfakes — which Denmark defines as a very realistic digital representation of a person, including their appearance […]
AI startup Delphi has raised a $16 million Series A round to empower experts in various fields to create chatbots based on their body of work. Why It Hits: While Meta has rolled out celebrity-inspired chatbots and CharacterAI has sparked controversy with its AI companions, Delphi is taking a different approach — focusing on real-world […]
We might not want to rely on AI for the heavy lifting of innovation. The Big Picture: While enthusiasts predict that AI will vastly accelerate the pace of scientific progress, some experts are skeptical of that claim. They allege that while AI is highly efficient, it’s not original and can, therefore, only help a human […]
Tech’s ubiquitous adoption of generative AI clients has crippled publishers. The Big Picture: Bots crawl publishers’ web pages and summarize their content without referring users to those pages. As a result, publishers receive no traffic or ad revenue from this engagement, forcing them to rethink their business models in order to survive. Between the Lines: […]
Programmers have begun coding themselves out of a job. The Big Picture: In a recent company-wide address, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy explained that the efficiency gains forecast by generative AI are so significant that Amazon will make major reductions to its workforce in the coming years. The jobs AI created are already gone, but it’s […]
NBCUniversal and Disney have filed suit against the generative-AI platform Midjourney for committing copyright infringement on a mass scale. The Subtitles: This move marks the first major legal action taken by Hollywood studios against a generative-AI company. Previous lawsuits have mostly been restricted to individuals trying to preserve ownership of their name, image, and likeness — and usually, they were […]
Grammy-winning rapper and music producer Timbaland is launching a company called Stage Zero that will generate artificial pop stars. The High Note: AI is creating waves in the music industry, with some artists, like Timbaland, embracing the tech, while others, like Billie Eilish, deeming it an existential threat. But Stage Zero is taking things a […]
Lionsgate is seemingly exploring the use of AI not only to cut production budgets by half, but also to radically alter existing movies — such as making R-rated titles kid-friendly and turning live-action films into animated ones. The Big Picture: While Lionsgate is the first studio to publicly announce that they partnered with an AI company (inking a […]