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5:55 PM ET, July 18, 2023

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Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
Over 8,500 authors sign an Authors Guild letter asking AI leaders to get consent and fairly compensate writers when using copyrighted materials in generative AI  —  If you ask GPT-4 to do a passage in the style of Carmen Machado or Margaret Atwood or Alexander Chee, it will do a fair job at it …
Axios:
Sources: Vox Media plans to stop using Chorus, its CMS that the company licensed to external publishers from 2018 to 2022, and move its websites to WordPress  —  Vox Media, the parent company to websites such as New York Magazine, Eater and SB Nation, will no longer use Chorus …
Peter Kafka / Vox:
G/O Media executives plan to publish more AI-generated stories, despite the blowback from employees and media circles for their first botched attempts  —  Why G/O Media thinks we should have more stories written by bots.  —  In early July, managers at G/O media, the digital publisher …
Lisa Richwine / Reuters:
The AMPTP says SAG-AFTRA declined a $1B+ deal with wage increases, pension, health contributions, residual increases, and “first-of-their-kind” AI protections  —  Major film and television studios offered Hollywood actors more than $1 billion in higher compensation and enhanced benefits …
Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Since Bloomberg cut open-market programmatic ads on January 1, its CPMs are up ~20%, its average ad-load time is down 15%, and its page-load time is down 40%  —  Page load, viewability, CPMs and clickthrough rates have improved  —  On Jan. 1, the privately owned business publisher Bloomberg Media shut off …
Jonathan Randles / Bloomberg:
A bankruptcy court allows Diamond Sports to end its broadcasts of Arizona Diamondbacks games; MLB takes over streaming, starting with the first game on July 18  —  - Bally Sports owner Diamond ends deal with second MLB team  — MLB said it will broadcast future Diamondback's game
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
A pro-Ron DeSantis super PAC used an AI version of Donald Trump's voice that appeared to narrate a Truth Social post of his, in a statewide TV attack ad in Iowa  —  The spot illustrates the new frontiers in political advertising.  —  A pro-Ron DeSantis super PAC uses an Artificial Intelligence version …
 
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Jesse Whittock / Deadline:
German broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 plans to cut ~400 roles, or ~10% of its staff, mostly in its entertainment business, ahead of its “digital transformation”
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Sophie Culpepper / Nieman Lab:
How Detroit-based local TV broadcaster Graham Media Group plans to use a GPT 3.5 bot that asks positive questions to spark productive comments for news articles
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
Peacock raises its Premium price by $1 to $5.99/month and Premium Plus by $2 to $11.99/month, at once for new customers and on August 17 for current subscribers
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Hayden Vernon / The Guardian:
Report: the BBC faces a UK government review of its funding model; potential alternatives to the license fee include a subscription, a broadband levy, and ads
Byline Times:
Investigation: GB News' Dan Wootton used fake online identities from 2008 to 2018 to bribe media executives and others into sharing compromising sexual material
Bryan Alexander / USA Today:
An interview with Jesse Watters about how his controversial comments are “brutally honest”, Tucker Carlson's firing, and more, as he moves to Carlson's 8pm slot
New York Times:
Politico names co-founder John Harris as its top editor, overseeing US and European newsrooms; Matt Kaminski shifts to editor at large at the end of August 2023