After nearly four months on the picket lines and at the bargaining table, the actors’ union SAG-AFTRA reached a tentative deal with the Hollywood Studios, or the Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), Wednesday evening. SAG-AFTRA leadership and its negotiating committee voted unanimously to approve the tentative agreement, …
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I t took 118 days of marching and negotiating for the actors’ union to reach a tentative deal with the Hollywood Studios Wednesday evening. The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) leadership and negotiating committee voted unanimously to approve the tentative agreement with the Association of …
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What do Wikipedia, Creative Commons and open-source software have in common? Aside from the fact that they are all powered by collaborative efforts, private businesses reap the benefits in the form of cost efficiencies, faster innovation and continuous improvement. If there was no open-source option, they would need to navigate …
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Since the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas militants against Israel, it’s become near-impossible to avoid images of the carnage and devastation that has befallen Israel and the Palestinians living in the besieged Gaza Strip. Online, it’s already difficult to sift through the barrage of misinformation, recycled footage from past conflicts, …
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Back in the early days of the internet, when I had to plug a phone cord into my parents’ laptop to could get into fights on Buffy the Vampire Slayer AOL forums, my friends and I were obsessed with something called SmarterChild. SmarterChild was neither smart nor a child; he, …
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a futuristic concept; it’s a present-day reality that is reshaping many industries all at once, including marketing. With the massive data available from user interactions, AI can sift through and analyze patterns, providing insights that human marketers might overlook and saving them time while …
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Artificial intelligence recreations of the late actor Robin Williams aren’t sitting right with his daughter, Zelda Williams. On Sunday, Williams shared an Instagram Story criticizing the use of her father’s likeness in the creation of AI content — but also zoomed out to look at the bigger picture of how …
Read More »Meta Is Using Snoop Dogg, Paris Hilton, and Tom Brady to Get You to Like AI
Meta is going all in on the AI rush, revealing more than two dozen different chat bots with “personalities” loosely based on celebrities like Snoop Dogg and Kendall Jenner. The announcement, made Wednesday at Meta Connect, where the tech giant is unveiling its latest AI and virtual reality projects, confirmed …
Read More »George R.R. Martin, John Grisham Lead Authors Guild Class Action Lawsuit Against ChatGPT
George R.R. Martin, John Grisham, Jonathan Franzen, and George Saunders are among the authors who have filed a class action lawsuit against the company behind ChatGPT, accusing them of “feeding” and “training” the AI software on the authors’ copyrighted works. The Authors Guild — which also represents bestselling writers like …
Read More »Seven Ways to Leverage Generative AI for Your Business
Thanks to recent advancements in technology, businesses can access a myriad of tools and strategies to reach new realms of growth and efficiency. Among these transformative technologies, generative AI tools like ChatGPT are becoming increasingly commonplace, helping users quickly gather information and generate content. However, as with any emerging technology, …
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