News/Content Creation
How AI Tools are Reshaping Media Production
The big picture: Artificial intelligence is forcing the media production industry to adapt, with both tech giants and innovative startups developing tools that streamline processes, enhance creativity, and democratize content creation. AI-powered technologies are being applied across various aspects of media production, including animation, film dubbing, video editing, music composition, and content distribution. These advancements are making high-quality content production more efficient and accessible to a broader range of creators, potentially revolutionizing the media landscape. As AI's capabilities expand, the line between human and machine creativity is becoming increasingly blurred, raising questions about the future of artistic expression and the...
read Jul 31, 2024Wix’s New AI Blogging Tools Will Write Your Entire Article for You
Wix introduces AI-powered blogging tools to generate SEO-optimized content, potentially flooding the web with low-quality posts and prioritizing search rankings over genuine information. Key features of Wix's AI blogging tools: Wix's new AI-powered blogging features aim to make it easier for users to create SEO-optimized content without writing the posts themselves: The tools can generate AI-created drafts or outlines for blog posts, which human writers can then use as a foundation to maintain the appearance of user-generated content. Users can receive suggestions for blog titles, copy, and images based on their website's information, products, events, or services. The AI can...
read Jul 31, 2024Alt-Weeklies Are Publishing Loads of AI-Generated OnlyFans Clickbait
The once-iconic alt-weeklies are now publishing AI-generated clickbait about OnlyFans alongside their editorial content, marking a troubling trend in the decline of these publications. AI-generated content masquerading as journalism: Several prominent U.S. alt-weekly newspapers, including the Village Voice, LA Weekly, and the Riverfront Times, are running search-engine-optimized listicles about porn performers that appear to be AI-generated: These listicles, which rank pornographic performers by various demographics, are presented as editorial content without any labels indicating they are advertisements or sponsored posts. AI detection startup Reality Defender scanned a sample of these posts and found a "high probability" that they contain AI-generated...
read Jul 31, 2024Google Photos AI Editing Tools Are Now Free
The AI editing tools in Google Photos, once reserved for paying Google One customers, are now freely accessible to all users. Google recently shared insights into effectively using these features, particularly highlighting the differences between Magic Eraser and Magic Editor's erase tool. Key Takeaways: Google's senior product manager, Selena, explains the distinct use cases for Magic Eraser and Magic Editor: Magic Eraser excels at quick, minor edits, such as removing small background objects in landscape shots. Magic Editor's generative AI capabilities make it better suited for more complex, prominent foreground object removal, as it can effectively fill the space left...
read Jul 30, 2024How AI Publishing Enabled Thad McIlroy to Launch His New Book
A game-changing book release showcases the transformative potential of artificial intelligence in the literary world, despite initial distribution challenges. Overcoming AI-driven publishing hurdles: Thad McIlroy's new book, "The AI Revolution in Book Publishing: A Concise Guide to Navigating Artificial Intelligence for Writers and Publishers," faced a brief setback when Ingram flagged and removed it from distribution due to concerns over AI-generated content: Despite McIlroy using AI for only about 1% of the book, such as demonstrating ChatGPT for image alt-text generation, Ingram's filters mistakenly identified the book as AI-generated. The issue was quickly resolved after McIlroy raised concerns on social...
read Jul 30, 2024Runway’s Gen-3 Alpha Transforms Still Images into Stunning Videos
Runway's Gen-3 Alpha AI video model now allows users to generate highly realistic videos from still images, opening up new possibilities for filmmaking and video creation. Key features and capabilities: The latest update to Runway's Gen-3 Alpha model introduces the ability to use still images as prompts for generating AI videos: Users can upload a still image and optionally add text prompts to guide the video generation process, with the option to create 5 or 10-second videos. The image-to-video feature is surprisingly fast, taking less than a minute to generate a video, while maintaining high quality and consistency with the...
read Jul 30, 2024Perplexity Launches Ad Revenue Sharing with Publishers
AI search startup Perplexity has just announced an ad revenue sharing program with publishers amid plagiarism accusations. The AI search startup aims to compensate content creators and build long-term partnerships, but faces challenges in an increasingly competitive and costly landscape. Key Takeaways: Perplexity's new "Publishers' Program" will share a double-digit percentage of ad revenue with participating publishers when their content is featured in search results. The program follows plagiarism accusations from Forbes and Wired, who found their paywalled content being used without permission in Perplexity's AI-generated articles and podcasts. Despite the controversy, Perplexity believes its use of content falls within...
read Jul 29, 2024The Art and Science of Using “Temperature” to Tune Generative AI Creativity
The temperature setting is a key tool for controlling the randomness and creativity of responses from generative AI like ChatGPT. Lower temperatures produce more predictable, coherent outputs, while higher temperatures generate more diverse and novel responses. Understanding the temperature spectrum: Temperature settings range from 0 to over 1, with 1 being neutral. Values below 1 make responses more deterministic and focused, while values above 1 inject more randomness and creativity: A temperature of 0.5 generates a straightforward description of a sunset with typical colors like "orange and pink" Raising the temperature to 1.5 produces a more evocative portrayal, with phrases...
read Jul 29, 2024ChatGPT’s Stand-Up Comedy Debut Exposes Limits of Machine Humor
Robots meet stand-up comedy: Comedian Karen Hobbs recently performed a comedy set written entirely by the AI tool ChatGPT, revealing the current limitations and potential of AI-generated humor. Hobbs, an experienced UK comedian, took the stage equipped with jokes generated by OpenAI's ChatGPT, following three human comedians performing their own material. When prompted to write jokes in a female voice, ChatGPT produced material relying on crude stereotypes about millennial women, such as jokes about having a potted plant as a best friend. The AI-written jokes lacked the satisfying buildup and punchlines that skilled human comedians deliver, as current language models...
read Jul 28, 2024If You Tell Stories, Here’s How AI Can Help You
AI is changing the art and business of storytelling, making it more accessible, efficient, and engaging for creators across industries: AI as a creative tool: AI is empowering directors, marketers, and content creators to bring their ideas to life with greater confidence and ease: Vimeo CMO Lynn Girotto believes that AI handles the technical execution, allowing creative teams to focus on ideation and overcoming writer's block. AI is seen as a short-term "nice to have" and a long-term "need to have," similar to the evolution of mobile websites a decade ago. Balancing AI and human creativity: While AI offers significant...
read Jul 27, 2024Colin Kaepernick’s New AI Graphic Novel Startup Aims to Empower Creators
Colin Kaepernick, former NFL quarterback, has launched AI startup Lumi to empower creators by removing barriers and streamlining the process of completing, publishing, and selling books and comics. Lumi's AI-powered platform for creators: Lumi offers a suite of AI tools designed to complement users' existing talents and help them create and merchandise their work more efficiently: The company's initial focus is on comic books and graphic novels, as the various creative skills required to produce them make it an ideal market for Lumi's AI-assisted platform. Lumi aims to address the challenges creators face, such as high production costs, lengthy timelines,...
read Jul 17, 2024Samsung’s ZFold 6 AI Turns Sketches into Photorealistic Images
Samsung's new Fold 6 features a powerful "sketch to image" AI tool that can turn rough sketches into photorealistic images. Key Features of Sketch to Image: The "sketch to image" tool on the Galaxy Z Fold 6 allows users to draw rough sketches on photos or blank note pages and uses generative AI to transform them into detailed images: Drawing on a blank note produces fun, cartoon-like results, such as goofy trucks or teddy bears with extra limbs, based on the user's doodle and chosen style like "3D cartoon" or "illustration". Sketching on an existing photo yields more troubling outcomes,...
read Jul 14, 2024AI Boosts Individual Creativity But May Reduce Originality, Study Suggests
An experiment from researchers at University College London and University of Exeter found that AI like GPT-4 can help individuals, especially those with lower baseline creativity, write more creative short stories: Participants who initially scored lower on a creativity test saw the most significant gains in the rated creativity of their stories when using AI assistance. The more AI-generated story prompts these participants were given to choose from, the higher their stories ultimately scored. However, participants who were already highly creative did not benefit from AI and in some cases scored lower when using it. Potential drawbacks; While AI boosted...
read Jul 13, 2024AI Boosts Individual Creativity but May Homogenize Collective Output, Study Finds
New research suggests generative AI can enhance individual creativity but may homogenize collective output. The study, published in Science Advances, found that while AI tools like GPT-4 improved the creative output of less inherently creative writers, it had little impact on those who were already highly creative. Key findings: AI's impact on individual creativity depends on inherent ability; The researchers divided participants into three groups: one relying solely on their own ideas, another with the option to receive a single AI-generated story idea, and a third with access to up to five AI-generated ideas: The vast majority (88.4%) of participants...
read Jul 12, 2024Perplexity AI to Share Ad Revenue with Publishers in Groundbreaking Move
Perplexity, an AI chatbot, is set to launch a first-of-its-kind revenue-sharing program with web publishers next month, enabling them to monetize their content when cited by the platform. Key Takeaways: The revenue-sharing initiative will be based on advertising run alongside search queries on Perplexity, with partners receiving a percentage of revenue for ads displayed against results that cite their content: The program will include both the paid Perplexity Pro offering and the free version of the platform. Partners will be entitled to a share of the revenue whenever an ad is run against a result that cites a link from...
read Jul 12, 2024The Atlantic Embraces AI, and Partnership with OpenAI
The Atlantic signed a deal with OpenAI to help shape the future of AI in a way that benefits serious journalism. While the deal has sparked some criticism, The Atlantic's CEO Nicholas Thompson believes it's important for media companies to engage with AI and try to steer its development in a positive direction. Key aspects of The Atlantic's deal with OpenAI: The multi-part agreement allows OpenAI to train on The Atlantic's data for two years, provides The Atlantic with credits to use OpenAI's tools, and will include The Atlantic's content in OpenAI's forthcoming search product: The Atlantic will have some...
read Jul 12, 2024Muck Rack Tackles Fake AI Journalist Profiles, Reflecting Wider Challenges Across Media
The journalist database Muck Rack is taking steps to address the issue of fake AI-generated writer profiles and content on its platform, reflecting a wider challenge across the media industry. Muck Rack unverifies fake iLounge writer profiles: After being contacted by The Verge for comment, Muck Rack removed verification from two profiles of seemingly fake writers for iLounge who appeared to be publishing AI-written content. Developing AI detection capabilities: Muck Rack spokesperson Linda Zebian said the platform is working on a model to identify signs commonly associated with fake authorship, allowing them to flag potential AI-generated writers to users. Broader...
read Jun 19, 2024Google’s AI Breakthrough: V2A Generates Stunningly Realistic Audio for Videos, Hinting at a New Era in Content Creation
Google DeepMind's new AI tool, V2A, shows promise in generating realistic audio for videos, potentially filling a gap in current generative video technology. Here's a summary of the key points: Introducing V2A: Google's AI laboratory has unveiled a new video-to-audio tool that uses AI to create audio matching the content of a video: V2A can deliver convincing audio like footsteps or drum strokes that sync with the video's timing. The technology aims to address the lack of audio in current generative video tools like OpenAI's Sora, Luma AI's Dream Machine, and Google's Veo. Capabilities and potential: V2A demonstrates impressive audio...
read Jun 10, 2024Perplexity Releases New AI Content Creation Tool “Pages”
Driving The News: The launch of Perplexity Pages marks a significant development in the world of content creation. With its customizable features, adaptable structure, and visual enhancement capabilities, Pages streamlines the process of crafting in-depth articles, reports, and guides. The platform's growing library of user-generated content and seamless sharing options further contribute to its potential to revolutionize the way knowledge is shared online. Big Idea: Perplexity Pages is a revolutionary tool that simplifies the process of transforming research into visually appealing and comprehensive content, empowering creators from various fields to easily share their knowledge with the world. Why This Matters:...
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