Topic: copyright issues
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Hollywood's AI Dilemma: An Industry in Crisis
A deep divide exists between Silicon Valley and Hollywood over AI's integration, with the entertainment industry facing a critical juncture as AI threatens business models and intellectual property rights. Tech leaders like OpenAI's Sam Altman promote AI as a creative tool for deeper audience eng...
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My Slippery Slope Into Sora's World
OpenAI's new Sora app enables users to create ten-second AI-generated videos from any concept, including digital cameos of people, and has quickly become a top free app on the Apple App Store. Public and internal reactions are mixed, with concerns about misinformation from hyper-realistic videos ...
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Your Face Is the Next Legal Battleground for AI
AI technology is rapidly outpacing existing legal frameworks, creating a regulatory battleground over the use of personal likenesses, such as faces and voices, in generated content. In response, states like Tennessee and California have passed laws to protect against unauthorized digital replicas...
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Showrunner Aims to Use AI to Restore Lost Orson Welles Footage
Showrunner is using AI to recreate the lost footage from Orson Welles' *The Magnificent Ambersons*, which was drastically cut by the studio against his wishes. The project combines generative AI with historical research, using Welles' notes and digital face-swapping to approximate the original ca...
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Your Android TV Box Could Be a Botnet
Popular Android TV streaming devices like Superbox secretly incorporate users' home networks into botnets, enabling cybercrime activities without their knowledge. These devices require users to install unofficial app stores and connect to suspicious services, such as Tencent QQ and Grass IO, whic...
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OpenAI's Sora App Faces Challenges After Stellar Launch
OpenAI's Sora video-generation app is experiencing a significant slowdown, with sharp declines in user downloads and in-app spending following its initially spectacular launch. The app's momentum has been hampered by fierce competition from rivals like Google's Gemini and by copyright challenges ...
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Unlock More AI Videos: Sora's New Premium Plan
OpenAI has introduced a paid credit system for Sora, allowing users to purchase additional video generations beyond the free daily limits, addressing sustainability concerns. Pricing for extra credits starts at $4 for ten videos, with the cost varying by video specifications, and purchased credit...
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Uber Drivers Are Now Training AI for Extra Cash
Uber is introducing an optional program in the U.S. that allows drivers and couriers to earn extra income by completing digital tasks designed to train AI models, expanding beyond traditional services. Participants can perform tasks like recording videos or uploading photos for payment based on c...
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OpenAI's Sora Surpasses 1 Million Downloads
Sora, OpenAI's social AI video app, achieved over one million downloads in under five days, outpacing ChatGPT's initial adoption despite being invite-only and launching on iOS in the U.S. and Canada. The app features a "cameos" function for personalizing videos and has generated a mix of memes, d...
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Experts Reveal the AI Tasks That Truly Matter
AI is increasingly seen by designers as a collaborative tool that handles tedious tasks, enhancing creativity without replacing human ingenuity, though a gap exists between tech promises and real-world adoption. Generative AI is driving a content revolution with rapid advancements in creating rea...
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OpenAI's Deepfake TikTok Blurs Reality Beyond Recognition
OpenAI's Sora 2 AI video tool generates highly realistic deepfake videos, including convincing clips of real people, raising concerns about digital authenticity and misinformation. The platform features significant upgrades such as synchronized audio generation, improved accuracy, and a social ap...
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Sora: Why You Should Join the Competition
Sora, a new AI-powered social video app from ChatGPT's creators, has generated massive demand with 627,000 iOS downloads in its first week, even before its Australian launch. The app creates highly realistic synthetic videos, blurring the line between fact and fiction and raising significant conc...
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OpenAI Halts Sora AI From Generating Martin Luther King Jr. Videos
OpenAI has blocked its Sora video tool from generating depictions of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the request of his estate, which raised concerns about disrespectful portrayals and the need for public figures to control their likeness in AI. The decision is part of a broader policy allowing aut...
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Google Launches VaultGemma: Its First Privacy-Focused LLM
Sourcing high-quality training data is a major challenge for AI development, raising concerns over the use of sensitive or personal information in models. Differential privacy introduces noise during training to prevent models from memorizing private or copyrighted data, though it involves trade-...
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AI's Revolution: Reshaping Politics, Tech, and Media
AI is reshaping industries, politics, and media, presenting both opportunities and challenges that were discussed at a recent summit in New York. Concerns were raised about AI potentially displacing creative roles in journalism and undermining the work of writers and their subjects. Political lea...
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Is AI the Next Great Bubble?
Despite AI's dominance in tech discussions, most leading companies like OpenAI and Anthropic operate at a loss due to high inference costs, with 95% of businesses using generative AI not yet profiting from it. The AI industry faces growing uncertainty and a "jagged frontier" of effectiveness, lea...
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Unlock Meta Llama: Your Complete Guide to the Open AI Model
Meta's Llama is a leading open generative AI model that offers developers flexibility through downloadable and customizable options, supported by cloud partnerships and resources for fine-tuning and application development. Llama consists of a family of models, including the latest Llama 4 with v...
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Suno's AI Music Generator: Technically Brilliant, But Soulless
Suno AI v5 shows significant technical improvements with cleaner audio and more complex song structures, yet the music often feels sterile and lacks emotional depth. The model struggles with accurately capturing specific genres and eras, frequently producing generic or anachronistic sounds instea...
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AI Companies Now Face a New Web Payment System
The Really Simple Licensing (RSL) standard is a new framework that allows web publishers to specify and enforce compensation terms when their content is used for training AI systems, with support from major platforms like Reddit and Yahoo. RSL builds on the robots.txt protocol by adding financial...
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American Archive of Public Broadcasting Patches Security Flaw
A security flaw in the American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) website allowed unauthorized downloads of protected media files for years, which was exploited since at least 2021 and has now been fixed. The vulnerability was an Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR) flaw that let users byp...
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From Atari to Gamestation Go: Reliving My Gaming Childhood
The Gamestation Go is a modern handheld device that bundles roughly 200 classic Atari games, featuring standout hardware with a versatile control scheme and robust connectivity for a tailored retro experience. While many classic games show their age, the device's primary value is emotional, servi...
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AI's Turbulent Year in Gaming: A 2025 Review
The year 2025 saw AI become a deeply embedded and polarizing force in the video game industry, sparking intense debate over its ethical implications, impact on jobs, and practical value versus creative integrity. Proponents championed AI for accelerating workflows and enabling innovation, with ma...
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OpenAI's Bias Problem & The Making of AI Videos
OpenAI's Sora video app exemplifies the dual potential of generative AI for innovation and copyright issues, requiring creators to enforce their own intellectual property rights. Taiwan has refused a U.S. request to move half its semiconductor production stateside, casting doubt on the stability ...
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YouTube Bets on AI as Its Next Big Thing
YouTube is leveraging AI to drive its next growth phase, integrating generative tools for creators and viewers to transform content production and consumption. The platform, acquired by Google for $1.65 billion in 2006, has become a dominant force in online video, music, and podcasting, paying cr...
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General Intuition raises $134M to train AI with video game clips
General Intuition secured $133.7 million in seed funding to develop AI agents using a unique dataset of two billion gaming videos annually, focusing on spatial-temporal reasoning for understanding object interactions in space and time. The startup's AI models learn from visual input to navigate e...
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Amazon's New AI Agent Creates Ads Instantly: Here's How to Try It
Amazon has launched an AI agent that generates high-quality video ads for small and medium businesses at no extra cost, using natural language prompts in its Creative Studio. The tool leverages Amazon's consumer data and AI models to create tailored ad concepts, scripts, and assets, providing tra...
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