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Tens of Millions Now Work in the $250B ‘Creator Economy’
The creator economy is probably bigger than you think. The Washington Post reports it’s “now a global industry valued at $250 billion, with tens of millions of workers, hundreds of millions of customers and its own trade association and work-credentialing programs.” Millions have ditched traditional career paths to work as Read more…
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People Are Speaking With ChatGPT For Hours, Bringing 2013’s ‘Her’ Closer To Reality
In 2013, Spike Jonze’s Her imagined a world where humans form deep emotional connections with AI, challenging perceptions of love and loneliness. Ten years later, thanks to ChatGPT’s recently added voice features, people are playing out a small slice of Her in reality, having hours-long discussions with the AI assistant Read more…
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Elvis Is Back in the Building, Thanks to Generative AI – and U2
U2’s inaugural performance at the opening of Las Vegas’s Sphere included a generative AI video collage projected hundreds of feet into the air — showing hundreds of surreal renderings of Elvis Presley. The video collage is the creation of the artist Marco Brambilla, the director of Demolition Man and Kanye Read more…
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Hollywood Studios Can Train AI Models on Writers’ Work Under Tentative Deal
Hollywood studios are expected to retain the right to train artificial-intelligence models based on writers’ work under the terms of a tentative labor agreement between the two sides, citing people familiar with the situation. The writers would also walk away with an important win, a guarantee that they will receive Read more…
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68 Years After His Death, James Dean Is Reportedly Starring in a New Movie – Thanks to AI
Nearly seven decades after he died, James Dean “has been cast as the star in a new, upcoming movie,” reports the BBC: A digital clone of the actor — created using artificial intelligence technology similar to that used to generate deepfakes — will walk, talk and interact on screen with Read more…
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