Inception Point AI produces 3,000 podcast episodes weekly and maintains profitability with just 20 listeners per show. Ashley Carman reports for Bloomberg. Co-founder Jeanine Wright says the company will continue its AI-driven approach despite widespread industry backlash calling the content “slop.” Wright predicts AI will become the default content creation method within 12 to 24 …
Spotify is introducing a series of policy changes to manage AI-generated content on its platform. The updates include a new system for labeling AI music, a spam filter to catch fraudulent uploads, and a clearer ban on unauthorized voice clones. Sarah Perez reports for TechCrunch. For labeling, the company will adopt the upcoming DDEX industry …
A confusing trend is emerging in companies that use generative artificial intelligence. While employees are adopting the technology, many organizations are not seeing a positive return on their investment. The Harvard Business Review reports on a phenomenon called “workslop”, which researchers from BetterUp Labs and the Stanford Social Media Lab have identified as a potential …
Thousands of human workers who train and moderate Google’s AI models like Gemini face grueling deadlines, low pay, and exposure to distressing content. These “raters,” hired through contractors like GlobalLogic, are essential for making chatbots seem intelligent and safe but often feel invisible and expendable. This is reported by The Guardian after speaking with ten …
Researchers at Florida State University have found that buzzwords commonly used by AI are appearing more frequently in unscripted human conversations, McKenzie Harris reports for Florida State University News. The study analyzed 22.1 million words of spoken language, revealing a measurable increase in the use of words such as “delve,” “intricate,” and “underscore” after the …
Tech companies have downloaded more than 15 million videos from over two million YouTube channels to train their artificial intelligence models. Alex Reisner reports for The Atlantic that this practice often occurs without the creators’ permission and violates the platform’s terms of service. The investigation identified at least 13 data sets containing the scraped content, …
A coalition of major web publishers, including Reddit, Yahoo, and Quora, has launched a new system called Really Simple Licensing (RSL). The standard aims to make AI companies pay for using online content to train their artificial intelligence models. The RSL Standard builds on the existing `robots.txt` protocol, a file that gives instructions to web …
Videos created using artificial intelligence are flooding social media platforms and generating substantial revenue for their creators, despite widespread criticism of the low-quality content. John Ruwitch reports for NPR. Mark Lawrence I Garilao, a 21-year-old computer science student from the Philippines, earns up to $9,000 per month creating simple animated videos featuring a kitten character. …
The artificial intelligence company Anthropic will pay $1.5 billion to settle a copyright lawsuit with authors and publishers. This represents the largest payout in the history of U.S. copyright cases. Cade Metz reports for The New York Times that the settlement follows a judge’s ruling that Anthropic illegally downloaded millions of books from pirated online …
AI web crawlers are overwhelming websites and disrupting the economic foundation of online publishing, according to Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince. The cybersecurity company executive has launched a “pay-per-crawl” initiative to force AI companies to compensate content creators whose sites they harvest for training data. Prince argues that AI chatbots have fundamentally broken the traditional web …