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Generative AI enhances individual creativity but reduces the collective diversity of novel content

Creativity is core to being human. Generative artificial intelligence (AI)-including powerful large language models (LLMs)-holds promise for humans to be more creative by offering new ideas, or less creative by anchoring on generative AI ideas. We study the causal impact of generative AI ideas on the production of short stories in an online experiment where some writers obtained story ideas from an LLM. We find that access to generative AI ideas causes stories to be evaluated as more creative, better written, an…

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Generative AI enhances individual creativity but reduces the collective diversity of novel content
Ethical examination of AI coaches: privacy, bias, and responsibility
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Ethical examination of AI coaches: privacy, bias, and responsibility

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into sports, particularly through AI-driven coaching systems, marks a transformative advancement with the potential to revolutionize personalized training. AI coaches can create customized, data-driven training programs designed to optimize athletic performance. However, this technological progress also brings with it significant ethical concerns, including privacy violations, data biases, and ambiguous responsibility in cases of failure or misuse. These risks exte…

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Why is gaming becoming so expensive? The answer is found in AI
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Why is gaming becoming so expensive? The answer is found in AI

When the PlayStation 5 launched almost five and a half years ago, it was listed at £449 in the UK. If you were to buy one at the recommended retail price today, it would be £569.99, or £789.99 for the updated Pro model. Sony has just raised the price of its console by another £90, the latest in a series of hikes. This is unprecedented: consoles have always decreased in price over time (until they become retro collectibles – the other day, I saw someone asking £200 for a SNES on Vinted). So, what’s going on? Unfo…

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Musicians must embrace ‘unstoppable force’ of AI, Eurythmics’ Dave Stewart urges
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Musicians must embrace ‘unstoppable force’ of AI, Eurythmics’ Dave Stewart urges

The Eurythmics co-founder Dave Stewart has said artificial intelligence is an “unstoppable force”, and musicians and other artists should bow to the inevitable and license their music to generative AI platforms. These platforms use artificial intelligence to analyse existing songs and tracks, using that knowledge to generate completely new ones as prompted by a user. For example, someone could ask the AI platform to generate a song about a boozy night out in the style of a Britpop band, and it would draw on song…

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Brady Tkachuk decries White House’s AI video of him insulting Canadians after US gold
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Brady Tkachuk decries White House’s AI video of him insulting Canadians after US gold

US ice hockey star Brady Tkachuk has said he does not appreciate an AI video released by the White House that shows him insulting Canadians. Tkachuk played in the Americans’ victory over Canada at the Winter Olympics on Sunday, which secured the US men their first gold medal since 1980. In the wake of that win, the White House’s TikTok account published video of Tkachuk saying: “They booed our national anthem, so I had to come out and teach those maple syrup eating fuckers a lesson.” Tkachuk never said those wor…

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Grayson Perry Has Seen the Future review – some of these insights into AI are just mindblowing
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Grayson Perry Has Seen the Future review – some of these insights into AI are just mindblowing

There is a fun game you can play while watching Grayson Perry Has Seen the Future, the two-part documentary presented by the artist on the subject of artificial intelligence, its uses and its possible ramifications. Gather a group of friends, press play, and see which of you loses your mind first. Will it be during the opening interview with Andrea, who recently married Edward, the AI companion she created to be “the man of my dreams”. She – or her idealised online avatar – wore “a beautiful matt satin gown” and…

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Paul McCartney joins music industry protest against AI with silent track

At two minutes 45 seconds it’s about the same length as With a Little Help From My Friends. But Paul McCartney’s first new recording in five years lacks the sing-along tune and jaunty guitar chops because there’s barely anything there. The former Beatle, arguably Britain’s greatest living songwriter, is releasing a track of an almost completely silent recording studio as part of a music industry protest against copyright theft by artificial intelligence companies. In place of catchy melodies and evocative lyrics…

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Paul McCartney joins music industry protest against AI with silent track

Why are respected film-makers suddenly embracing AI?

In Steven Soderbergh’s beguiling new movie The Christophers, a reclusive artist (Ian McKellen) tangles with the quiet art forger (Michaela Coel) who his greedy children have hired to secretly finish further entries in a well-known painting series. The movie is smart and provocative about the nature of artistry and authorship, exploring what it means to create – and to stop creating. It’s especially fascinating coming from Soderbergh, who has made movies with workhorse dependability (The Christophers is his third…

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Why are respected film-makers suddenly embracing AI?

Into the spider’s lair: how an Australian film-maker made an impossible documentary with AI

Scene: a dimly lit underground burrow. A giant Amazonian tarantula and a tiny dotted humming frog share the space, an unlikely duo captured in extraordinary detail. Except, they haven’t been. Guardians of the Burrow, a short “wildlife documentary” by the Australian digital content designer Jodie Heenan, is entirely AI generated. At the weekend it won a prize in the Omni international AI film festival, adjudicated by a panel led by The Crow and Dark City director – and AI advocate – Alex Proyas. The documentary d…

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Into the spider’s lair: how an Australian film-maker made an impossible documentary with AI

Integrating AI and cloud-edge technologies for music creation in educational and performance domains

This paper provides a systematic exploration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for music generation within a cloud-edge synergy architecture (i.e. a coordinated cloud–edge computing paradigm where the cloud handles compute-intensive training and high-fidelity generation, while the edge supports latency-sensitive and privacy-critical inference and interaction), focusing on its deep integration and practical applications across educational and performance ecosystems. It begins by reviewing the evolution of key techn…

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Integrating AI and cloud-edge technologies for music creation in educational and performance domains

Generative AI and Media Content Creation: Investigating the Factors Shaping User Acceptance in the Arab Gulf States

This article aims to investigate the factors that affect behavioural intention (BI) and user behaviour (UB) among Arabian users of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) applications in the context of media content creation. The study’s theoretical framework is grounded in the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT2). A sample of 496 users was analysed using the partial least squares structural equation modelling technique (PLS-SEM). The results revealed that BI is significantly influenced…

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Generative AI and Media Content Creation: Investigating the Factors Shaping User Acceptance in the Arab Gulf States

Prompting AI Art: An Investigation into the Creative Skill of Prompt Engineering

We are witnessing a novel era of creativity where anyone can create digital content via prompt-based learning (known as prompt engineering). This article investigates prompt engineering as a novel creative skill for creating AI art with text-to-image generation. In three consecutive studies, we explore whether crowdsourced participants can (1) discern prompt quality, (2) write prompts, and (3) refine prompts. We find that participants could evaluate prompt quality and crafted descriptive prompts, but they lacked…

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Prompting AI Art: An Investigation into the Creative Skill of Prompt Engineering

Google AI Mode adds more Connected Apps, including YouTube Music

Google’s AI-powered Search experience now supports more third-party Connected Apps in AI Mode, including YouTube Music, Canva, and Instacart. This allows users to complete everyday tasks without leaving the AI interface. The feature, introduced in 2025, can now interact with third-party services and help with tasks like creating playlists, designing graphics, and preparing shopping lists.

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Google AI Mode adds more Connected Apps, including YouTube Music