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Book publishers sue Google for copyright infringement over Gemini AI training

A group of major publishers have filed a lawsuit against Google, accusing the company of illegally using millions of copyrighted books to help build its Gemini artificial intelligence models, in “one of the most prolific infringements of copyrighted materials in history”. The case, filed in federal court in New York, has been brought by three publishers – Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning, and Elsevier – and bestselling American author Scott Turow. The publishers argue that Google repurposed books that had b…

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$2m crime novel deal collapses amid questions over AI use

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“It Was 80% Me, 20% AI”: Seeking Authenticity in Co-Writing with Large Language Models

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The Use of AI in the Creation of News: Application Framework, Ethical Challenges, and Governance Pathways of AIGC

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Quality perceptions and intended engagement in response to AI-generated and AI-assisted news

The increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in news production raises important questions about how audiences perceive and respond to AI-generated journalism. This preregistered survey experiment (N = 599, German-speaking Switzerland) examines (i) perceptions of article quality (measured as credibility, readability, and expertise) across news excerpts that were human-written, AI-assisted, or fully AI-generated, and (ii) self-reported intentions to engage following disclosure of AI involvement. Participant…

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Narrative Coherence and Distributed Authorship in Nineteen Eighty-Four and 1 the Road: A Comparative Case Study

Generative text systems challenge established accounts of literary authorship, creative agency, and communicative intentionality. This qualitative comparative case study examines selected passages from George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (2003) and Ross Goodwin’s 1 the Road (2018), an early sensor-driven LSTM experiment. Informed by computational creativity and posthumanist accounts of distributed cognition, the study compares the texts in relation to local cohesion, global narrative continuity, temporal and ca…

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Navigating codified, tacit and novel rules: Mapping the human-AI creativity frontier

This paper examines the boundary between human and machine creativity by analysing 593 tasks across 126 occupations in the cultural and creative industries. Theoretically, we propose an evolutionary conceptualisation of creativity, structured around three rule types corresponding to retention (codified), adoption (tacit), and origination (novel) phases. Empirically, using GPT-4, we generate synthetic annotations of the semantic content of task descriptions in the Australian Skills Classification. We derive indic…

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AI music company wants to press users' creations onto vinyl records

AI music company Suno plans to press users' generated tracks onto 12-inch records for about $45, moving into vinyl as copyright suits from Universal and Sony continue.

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Suno made AI music a firehose. Now, facing lawsuits, it wants to watermark the flood

Suno will add audio watermarking, fingerprinting, and download limits to its AI music, a legitimacy play as copyright lawsuits and a German ruling pile up.

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AI makes a feature film in 14 days: Higgsfield shares its $500,000 filmmaking process with creators

Higgsfield AI has released the full production pipeline behind its 95-minute AI-generated action film, allowing creators to access the prompts, character models and workflows used to make the movie. The startup says it completed the film in 14 days for $500,000.

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Suno Lost To GEMA: Why The Ruling Should Worry AI Music Companies

A German court ruled AI music company Suno infringed copyright by using works represented by GEMA without permission and downloaded songs by stream-ripping

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Game, set, Chat: how tennis players use AI to scout opponents and run their lives

Not so long ago, Emma Raducanu was on her phone when she found herself wondering what her comprehensive usage of ChatGPT said about her own character. “I use Chat a lot,” Raducanu says, laughing. “Every small thing I do it and I got this idea. So, you know how Spotify do a Spotify Wrapped? I asked ChatGPT to make me a Chat Wrapped, and it was giving me a rundown on my personality. “I was like: ‘It’s a little bit too accurate.’ It was very clear, very concise. No nonsense, straight into the question. I thought: ‘…

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AI made its debut at Wagner’s Bayreuth festival. The crowd booed it and cheered the humans.

The Bayreuth Festival has spent 150 years guarding Richard Wagner’s music on a Bavarian hill. For its anniversary it tried something new and let artificial intelligence help stage the show. The crowd’s verdict was blunt. It booed the ma

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Stellar Blade Blood Rain music video sparks AI slop backlash, fans slam Shift Up for 'strange visuals' and 'falling quality standards'

Shift Up's latest Blood Rain music video has divided the Stellar Blade community after fans accused the studio of relying too heavily on AI generated visuals. While the developer openly acknowledged AI assistance, many players believe the promotional video falls far below the visual standards that made Stellar Blade a hit.

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Delhi HC protects Yuvraj Singh's personality rights, says AI-generated deepfakes, unauthorised commercial use tarnish reputation, violate law

The Delhi High Court has protected Yuvraj Singh's personality rights. AI-generated deepfakes and unauthorised exploitation damage his reputation and commercial value. The court issued an interim injunction against creating and publishing such content. This order reinforces celebrity rights in the age of artificial intelligence. Violators of these rights will be dealt with severely.