Australia's record industry will bar wholly AI-generated tracks from its official charts starting next Monday. Under the Australian Recording Industry Association's new test, a track is eligible only if "humans wrote the song and performed the lead vocal and the primary instruments," among other requirements. AI-generated music is also ineligible for the ARIA Awards. Continue Reading →
Alibaba officially rolled out Wan3.0, its latest AI video generation model, which can generate 30-second videos from documents, spreadsheets, slides, and web pages. Alibaba says the public beta (live since August 6) has already been used in short drama and film production, advertising, tourism promotion, and music videos. Continue Reading →
The race to AGI is speeding up. Governments are doing their best to control and regulate the tech. The anti-AI movement is growing. The pro-AI movement is growing. The calls to slow down or stop AI innovation are growing. We're in a FOMO-driven race that feels all too familiar. It should. It's not new. I've been doing a lot of reading these past few weeks trying to survey and understand the body of research about this and to explore historical precedents. We've been here many times before. Let's explore. Continue Reading →
OpenAI launched an Apple Messages plugin for ChatGPT desktop. Connect your Messages inbox and ChatGPT can read, search, and analyze your iMessage, SMS, and RCS conversations, draft replies, delete messages, and send texts on your behalf through the Messages app. What could possibly go wrong? Continue Reading →
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