Today in Generative Media

RIAA lawsuits tackle AI; Train now, pay (maybe) later; Respect for human works

News and Opinion

• What the RIAA lawsuits mean for AI and copyright (The Verge)

• Silicon Valley's New AI Motto: Train Now, Pay (Maybe) Later (LinkedIn)

• “Human-created works must be respected”: 50 major music tech brands sign Principles for Music Creation with AI (MusicTech)

• ChatGPT’s Mac app is here, but its flirty advanced voice mode has been delayed (The Verge)

• YouTube Reportedly in Talks With Record Labels to License Songs for A.I. (MediaPlayNews)

• ElevenLabs launches iOS app that turns ‘any’ text into audio narration with AI (VentureBeat)

• Hollywood Workers Union Reaches Pay, AI-Use Deal With Top Studios (US News and World Report)

• Google’s NotebookLM is a great tool for adding AI to your notes (FastCompany)

• Security Bite: Meta will start using your data to train its AI next week, but you may be able to opt out (9to5Mac)

• The owner of Toys ‘R’ Us just used OpenAI’s Sora to animate the zombie brand (The Verge)

• Pokémon Card Contest Disqualifies Fans For Allegedly Using AI Art (Kotaku)

• Generative AI Can’t Cite Its Sources (The Atlantic)

Software and Research

• MARS5: A novel speech model for insane prosody. (HuggingFace)

• AutoStudio: Crafting Consistent Subjects in Multi-turn Interactive Image Generation (project page)

Misc

• Observation: none of the OpenAI "user interface" hype features have stuck (X)

• Excellent burn, thanks AI. (X)