‘BBL Drizzy’ Was the Beginning of the Future of AI Music
Will Hatcher got internet famous when Metro Boomin sampled his AI-generated song for a diss track released during the Kendrick Lamar–Drake beef. That was just the beginning….
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Filmmakers Are Worried About AI. Big Tech Wants Them to See ‘What’s Possible’
Amazon is hosting AI filmmaking competitions. Meta is letting directors test Movie Gen. As tech companies develop new tools, they need filmmakers to show they can be used responsibly….
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Anyone Can Turn You Into an AI Chatbot. There’s Little You Can Do to Stop Them
Character.AI lets users create bots in the likeness of any person—without requiring their consent….
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‘Piece by Piece’ Director Morgan Neville Will Never Use AI Again
Back in 2021, Morgan Neville thought using AI to recreate the late Anthony Bourdain’s voice would be an interesting Easter egg in his documentary. He ended up being a canary in Hollywood’s AI coal mine….
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How to Generate an AI Podcast Using Google’s NotebookLM
A little-known AI notebook tool from Google is going viral for its Audio Overviews that mimic the speech cadence of podcasters. Here’s how to try it out….
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How to Renovate Your Home for a Billion Children
I kept seeing more and more utterly absurd, hugely viral home remodeling videos on TikTok. So I tracked down where they actually come from….
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Chat Podcasts Rule the Market—and Always Will
“That appointment—that relationship—is everything,” says audio executive Eric Eddings. But that doesn’t mean the industry isn’t innovating….
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Soon After the Deadly Hezbollah Pager Explosions, This AI-Generated Podcast Went Up
The Pager Protocol podcast went up hours after exploding pagers and two-way radios killed dozens and injured hundreds in Lebanon last week. How did it do it? Lots of artificial intelligence tools….
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Lionsgate’s New Deal Is a Test of Hollywood’s Relationship With AI
The studio behind the John Wick, Hunger Games, and Twilight franchises just made a deal with an artificial intelligence startup to use its back catalog to build a custom AI model. It could be a tipping…
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