AI

The ongoing strike by SAG-AFTRA, now nearing its fourth week, has brought to the forefront the significance of interim agreements in the entertainment industry. At its core, an interim agreement is not a "waiver"; it's a binding contract that productions must adhere to, aligning with all of the contract terms SAG-AFTRA is seeking from the AMPTP. Continue Reading →

OpenAI will now allow website operators to block its web crawler by updating their site's robots.txt file or by directly blocking the IP address for OpenAI's GPTBot. Either technique will ensure that a site is not scrapped for AI training by OpenAI. Continue Reading →

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the Center for AI Safety have discovered a method to circumvent the safety measures of widely-used AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Claude, and Google Bard. Continue Reading →

Shopify has announced 'Sidekick', a generative AI tool designed to assist e-commerce merchants. Part of Shopify's AI initiative 'Shopify Magic', Sidekick leverages proprietary data and large language models, akin to OpenAI's ChatGPT. Continue Reading →

Seven AI tech giants – OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Meta, Amazon, Anthropic, and Inflection – have committed to watermarking AI-generated content. The goal is to label the provenance of AI-generated text, video, audio, and images, thereby reducing the risk of misleading users about the content's origins. As Google's blog aptly puts it, "None of us can get AI right on our own." Continue Reading →

OpenAI just launched a way to improve your ChatGPT Plus prompts. You can now save a bunch of keystrokes (tokens) using a new beta feature called "Custom Instructions." Unlike our forgetful ChatGPT of yesterweeks, the improved interface can "remember" your persona, your preferences, your style, etc., to save you from having to constantly tell it who you are, who it is acting as, and what constraints it should respect. Continue Reading →

Google is testing an AI tool named "Genesis" that was designed to help generate news articles. In some strange Googly world, the idea is to relieve reporters from routine tasks, granting more time for other aspects of their work. Uh huh. Continue Reading →

There are very few demonstrations of AI that leave me speechless. This one not only left me speechless, but it left me writerless, producerless, singerless, musicianless, directorless, showrunnerless, audio engineerless, video ops-less, actorless, animatorless, graphic artistless, just to name a few. Continue Reading →

Shelly Palmer delves into the intersection of AI technology and the Hollywood film industry. Amidst a strike from thousands of actors and writers seeking a fair contract in the digital age, he explores how AI capabilities are reshaping film production, including de-aging actors, replacing extras with deepfakes, and more. Original airdate: July 18, 2023. Continue Reading →

In an eyebrow-raising display of regulatory bravado, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is now playing detective with OpenAI's chatbot, ChatGPT. Apparently, the FTC suspects this AI tool of engaging in deceptive practices, generating erroneous information that could harm consumers. This is a bit rich, considering OpenAI has been up front about potential flaws, even including a warning label about the possibility of false or misleading info. But hey, who reads those, right? Continue Reading →