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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 …
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Axios:
Sources: Vox Media plans to stop using its Chorus CMS, which it licensed until 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 — its proprietary content management system — to power its own websites, sources told Axios.
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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 …
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Lisa Richwine / Reuters:
The AMPTP says it offered SAG-AFTRA a deal that included $1B+ in wage increases, pension, and more, alongside “first-of-their-kind” AI protections — Major film and television studios offered Hollywood actors more than $1 billion in higher compensation and enhanced benefits …
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Natasha Mascarenhas / The Information:
Sources: Cameo tells staff it is laying off 80+ workers because of financial pressures, leaving fewer than 50, down nearly 90% from its peak headcount last year — Cameo, the video shoutout app that gained in popularity during the pandemic shutdowns, told employees on Tuesday that it was laying off …
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Reuters:
OpenAI commits $5M to the American Journalism Project in support of local news and $5M in API credits to help its members assess and deploy emerging AI tech — OpenAI is committing $5 million to the American Journalism Project (AJP) under a partnership that will look for ways …
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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 …
Andy Maxwell / TorrentFreak:
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit rules that Instagram is not liable for copyright infringement related to embedded images on BuzzFeed News and Time — Two photographers who filed a copyright lawsuit against Instagram after their images posted to the platform appeared on BuzzFeed News …
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Axios:
Over 600 local broadcast stations form a coalition to urge the FCC to close a loophole that lets live TV streamers bypass distribution negotiations with them — Hundreds of local broadcast stations have come together to create a new advocacy coalition that will urge the Federal Communications Commission …
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Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
BT Sport rebrands as TNT Sports in the UK and Ireland, and will present BT's premium live sports, plus other events, including the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris — TNT Sports went live on Tuesday across the U.K. and Ireland, replacing BT Sport. … TNT Sports is already used as WBD's sports brand in Latin America and the U.S.
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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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