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YouTube has removed 20 channels after Semafor traced an AI news network that hired real actors

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YouTube has terminated 20 channels in a network that paid gig-economy actors $26 a video to read AI-generated scripts attacking Democratic politicians. The network reached 45 million views because putting a real face in front of an AI pipeline defeats every synthetic-media detector platforms have built. Enforcement came only after Semafor and Riddance AI published, […]

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Australia’s charts now require a human to sing the lead vocal

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Australia will bar wholly AI-generated tracks from its official music charts from Monday. The song that prompted the rule was still sitting at number four on Tuesday. The Australian Recording Industry Association set the test in a statement. A track qualifies only if “humans wrote the song and performed the lead vocal and the primary […]

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The New York Times is testing AI summaries on readers

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The New York Times has started showing readers text written by a machine. A new search page answers queries with excerpts, links to Times stories and AI-generated summaries of Times reporting. Max Tani, Semafor’s media editor, reported the test on Sunday. The paper rolled it out quietly to a small subset of visitors over recent […]

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Amazon raised its device prices by up to 60% overnight

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Amazon raised the price of its own devices overnight on 21 August. The increases run to 60% on the cheapest product in the range, and they were not announced. Fortune reported the change across the hardware line. Pocket-lint had reported the Fire TV increases earlier the same day. Amazon confirmed the rises and blamed memory […]

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Twitch and Amazon face a class action over livestream AI training

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A Twitch streamer sued Twitch and Amazon on 20 August over the use of livestreams to train Amazon’s generative AI. The complaint runs to 37 pages. Counsel filed it in the Northern District of California, San Francisco Division. The case number is 3:26-cv-08721. Its central documentary claim concerns a contract. Twitch announced an opt-out setting […]

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Google wants publishers to install a button that makes readers pick them

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Google is giving publishers a button to put on their own websites. Clicking it adds that publisher to a reader’s preferred sources on Google. It is one of three personalisation changes the company announced on Thursday. The other two are a chatbot for tuning the Discover feed, and topic controls for audio news briefings. Mrinalini […]

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Apple Music will label AI songs, and the tags behind them are now mandatory

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Apple Music will start showing listeners which songs were made with AI. The disclosure behind those labels also stops being optional. Apple emailed music industry partners on Thursday to announce Made With AI Labels, Billboard reported after obtaining the message. Any track a content provider tags as “materially generated using AI” will carry a visible […]

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Patreon says its discovery problem for small creators is its own fault

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Patreon has published a roadmap of new and revamped features. TechCrunch counted 30 of them. The most consequential line in the post is an admission. “To the smaller creators on Patreon: the lack of discovery you’re seeing right now is not your fault. It’s ours,” chief executive Jack Conte wrote in a long post to […]

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YouTube raises Premium prices across Europe with an opt-in deadline

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YouTube Premium is getting more expensive across Europe. This time the company is asking subscribers to agree, rather than simply imposing the increase. A price-change notice seen by TNW went to a Romanian subscriber on Friday. It puts the individual plan up from RON 29.00 to RON 32.00 a month, a rise of about 10%. […]

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Adobe Firefly can now generate music, speech and sound effects

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Adobe Firefly’s audio tools became generally available on Thursday. Generate Music, Generate Speech and Generate Sound Effects now sit beside the image, video and design tools in its creative AI studio. Each runs on a different model. Generate Music uses the Firefly Music Model and produces original tracks tuned to a video’s length and mood. […]

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