AI This Week: Cruise Veers Off Course
Headlines This Week In a big win for human artists, a Washington D.C. judge has ruled that AI-generated art lacks copyright protections. Meta has released SeamlessM4T, an automated speech and…
ElevenLabs’ AI Voice Generator Can Now Fake Your Voice in 30 Languages
What’s become one of the internet’s go-to companies for creating realistic enough visual deepfakes now has the ability to clone your voice and force it to speak in a growing…
Meta Releases AI to Translate Dozens of Languages Using Speech and Text
Meta took a step towards a universal language translator on Tuesday with the release of its new Seamless M4T AI model, which the company says can quickly and efficiently understand…
Instagram’s Adding a Chronological Feed for Stories and Reels in Europe
Meta announced it is implementing new “transparency measures” on Instagram and Facebook on Tuesday in response to the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA) which requires Meta to comply by…
AI This Week: Fifty Ways to Hack Your Chatbot
Headlines This Week If there’s one thing you do this week it should be listening to Werner Herzog read poetry written by a chatbot. The New York Times has banned…
AP Shares Guidelines Prohibiting Staff From Using AI to Write Publishable Content
The Associated Press is putting its foot down on journalists using any kind of AI program to write articles, though that isn’t stopping the company itself from making a quick…
New York Times Bars AI Companies From Using Its Content for Algorithm Training
The New York Times is making it clear that the AI industry won’t be given free rein to pilfer the newspaper’s content to train algorithms. In a recent change to…
AI This Week: Zoom’s Big TOS Disaster
Hello! We are officially launching a THING. It’s going to be a weekly roundup about what’s happening in artificial intelligence and how it affects you. Generating Video Via Text? |…
Sorry, Chief, Microsoft Cortana Is Finally Dead
You can now visit the gravestone of Microsoft’s virtual assistant app Cortana in the growing mortuary of failed products. The company ended support for the Bing search-based voice control engine…
Google and Universal Music Discuss Making an AI Tool to Replicate Artists’ Voices
Universal Music Group and Google are in discussions to license artists’ voices and melodies for AI-generated content. The two companies are considering developing a tool that people can use to…