There is no doubt that many businesses in 2024 are scaling up and finding success in using artificial intelligence (AI). To win and stay on top of your industry and thrive in today’s day and age, staying up to date on technological advances that are reshaping productivity and efficiency is …
Read More »AI Debate Stirs in U.K. as Actress Replaced on BBC Project by Artificially Generated Voice
The AI battle is heating up in the U.K. after British actress Sara Poyzer was dropped from an upcoming BBC project in favor of an artificially generated voice. Poyzer, who has starred in the musical staging of Mamma Mia! for a decade, shared a screenshot of the email from an …
Read More »Our AI-Generated Blues Song Went Viral — and Sparked Controversy
Just last summer, experts on the intersection of AI and music told Rolling Stone that it would be years before a tool emerged that could conjure up fully produced songs from a simple text description, given the endless complexities of the finished product. But Suno, a two-year-old start-up based in …
Read More »Seven Ways to Leverage AI to Improve Your Business and Save Time
While artificial intelligence and its ongoing implementation in the business world remains a controversial topic, there are many business leaders and professionals who are finding ways to use AI to optimize their daily work and improve their overall business processes. As a tool, artificial intelligence is more than just a …
Read More »4Chan Chuds Used AI to Clothe Her. She Fought Back
As an adult-content creator with a large following on the internet, Isla David has dealt with trolls before. Usually, her work combatting online bad actors involves her trying to take down photos of herself that have been posted elsewhere without her permission, such as a photo for an ad for …
Read More »X/Twitter Temporarily Suspends 'Taylor Swift' Searches After AI Image Uproar
X/Twitter has blocked searches for “Taylor Swift” this weekend in response to the rash of explicit AI-generated images of the singer that have drawn condemnation from Swifties, SAG-AFTRA, and the Biden White House. Starting Saturday — and as of press time Sunday — typing “Taylor Swift” in X’s search bar …
Read More »'Eternal You': A Horrifying Doc About AI Companies Recreating the Dead
Eternal You, a new documentary premiering at Sundance about the nauseating new world of digital afterlife technology, opens on a woman, Christi Angel, staring into a computer screen. She’s messaging with a dead loved one and tears are streaming down her face. “This experience… It was creepy,” she says. “There …
Read More »'A Murder at the End of the World' Creator Brit Marling on That Finale Twist
The FX series A Murder at the End of the World reached its conclusion on Dec. 19, finally revealing who’s been responsible for the series of killings at tech billionaire Andy Ronson’s (Clive Owen) remote Icelandic retreat. Warning: Spoilers ahead. Hacker-sleuth Darby Hart (Emma Corrin) discovers that it wasn’t Andy …
Read More »Fran Drescher Gets Candid About the SAG Deal, AI, and Vaccine Mandates
After four long months marching on Hollywood picket lines, bargaining inside hostile negotiating rooms, and giving Buddhist sermons, Fran Drescher can finally exhale. Through the 118-day actors’ strike, The Nanny star turned SAG-AFTRA national president, joined by SAG-AFTRA chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, has served as the face of the 160,000-strong …
Read More »'An Existential Threat': Actors Troubled by SAG's AI Deal With Hollywood
A s an alternate member of the Screen Actors Guild negotiating committee, Shaan Sharma spent most of this last year strategizing with other committee members and going back and forth with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers over deal points that are important to actors and their futures …
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