AI
The First Mainly AI-Generated Super Bowl Ad Is Here, for Better or Worse
The Svedka spot features LLM robots and synthetic people. Get ready for the Slopper Bowl?
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Critic’s Notebook: Darren Aronofsky’s ‘On This Day… 1776’ Demonstrates That High-End AI Slop Is Still AI Slop
Produced using technology from Google's DeepMind, the YouTube short-form series does more to highlight the obvious limitations of AI filmmaking than its theoretical benefits.
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Darren Aronofsky Has Reconstructed the Revolutionary War Using AI
That's the conceit of a series he made with Google DeepMind and Salesforce, which will unfurl on Time Magazine’s YouTube channel every week through the end of the year.
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One of the First Big Anti-AI Campaigns From Hollywood Is Launching Now
Writers, actors and other musicians have come out in support of the Human Artistry Campaign’s “Stealing Isn’t Innovation” push for licensing and opt-out mechanisms for human-created works.
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YouTube CEO Neal Mohan’s Big Ideas for 2026: More Superstar Creators and Transparency, Less AI Slop
The executive published his annual letter to the YouTube community Wednesday, outlining his priorities for the video platform.
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X Now Prevents Grok From Editing “Images of Real People in Revealing Clothing, Such as Bikinis”
The social media platform says it has "zero tolerance for any forms of child sexual exploitation, non-consensual nudity, and unwanted sexual content."
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As AI Music Floods the Zone, Bandcamp Takes a Stand
"We want musicians to keep making music, and for fans to have confidence that the music they find on Bandcamp was created by humans," the company said in a post on Reddit this week.
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X Being Probed by U.K. Media Regulator Over Grok’s Image Tool After Sexualized Deepfakes Uproar
"We’ll progress this investigation as a matter of the highest priority, while ensuring we follow due process," Ofcom stated.
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SAG-AFTRA’s Likely Strategy: Make AI Performers as Expensive as Humans
Chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland's remarks came just a month before the union enters its latest round of negotiations with studios and streamers on Feb. 9.
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Emmys Set AI Guidance, Drop “Television” From Best Movie Category Name
The TV Academy also made rule changes for short-form programs and a few other categories.
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How This Became the Season of Hating on AI
A pro-human pose has become fashionable on the Oscar circuit. Will it do anything?
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X Limits AI Chatbot Grok’s Image Generation, Editing to Subs After Uproar Over Sexualized Deepfakes
The functions of the tool created by Elon Musk's xAI "are currently limited to paying subscribers," read messages to users of the social network.
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