Media & Entertainment

Scarlett Johansson has accused OpenAI of stealing her voice for GPT-4o. Johansson claims that OpenAI's "Sky" voice is "eerily similar" to her own and that she was approached by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to voice the system, but declined. Continue Reading →

Sony Music Group sent letters to more than 700 companies warning them not to use its music to train AI without explicit permission. Continue Reading →

One of the best ways to create competitive advantage with generative AI platforms is to enable the AI to dynamically incorporate relevant external information (aka your data) into its response process. Continue Reading →

I'm having trouble processing what I just watched. It's an ad from Apple about its new iPad. It turned my stomach. Then, it made me incredibly angry. Then, I was just sad. Continue Reading →

Apple was so excited to release its M4 chip that they put it in the iPad first. According to Apple, "the M4 has a blazing-fast Neural Engine — an IP block in the chip dedicated to the acceleration of AI workloads. It's Apple's most powerful Neural Engine ever, capable of an astounding 38 trillion operations per second — a breathtaking 60x faster than the first Neural Engine in A11 Bionic." Continue Reading →

If you're looking for professionally curated lists of the best dressed stars, Vogue, Vanity Fair, or the New York Times have awesome pictorials. Unsurprisingly, these traditional sources had a bit of competition from deepfakes this year, and several hyper-realistic deepfake images of celebrities like Katy Perry and Rihanna garnered millions of views. Continue Reading →

Need to show someone that you are very, very popular? Need social validation to boost your self confidence while out for the evening with your friends? Want 20,000 viewers to interact with you right now? You're just a few taps away. Head over to your favorite app store and download a "fame experience simulator" app. Continue Reading →

What would it take to build your company's first synthetic employee? What AI models could you use? How much data will it require? What about compute power? Electricity? Technical resources? Security? Legal? Risk? Ethics? Is the idea simply too crazy to think about now? Should you just wait until someone invents artificial general intelligence (AGI)? Continue Reading →

There's an article in The Verge today entitled “Streaming services really want you to buy stuff while you watch TV”, which reminded me of some sage advice I often got from the late Clayton P. Knowles, Jr., Esq. (my first general counsel). Continue Reading →

YouTube CEO Neal Mohan has a clear message for OpenAI: using the platform's videos to train AI models (like Sora) without permission is a "clear violation" of YouTube's terms of service. Continue Reading →