HarperCollins is selling their authors’ work to AI tech.
We’re not going to be able to rely on the courts to protect us, seeing as the Authors Guild suit against OpenAI has already been partially defanged by a California…
Microsoft deal would reopen Three Mile Island nuclear plant to power AI
Pennsylvania’s dormant Three Mile Island nuclear plant would be brought back to life to feed the voracious energy needs of Microsoft under an unprecedented deal announced Friday in which the…
Narrating Audiobooks From Other Worlds
The field of audiobooks has exploded since the introduction of mp3 players, and it continues to expand. But it takes a unique set of skills to voice audiobooks in sci-fi…
The Creativity Fallacy
What does it mean to be a creator at a time when creativity is completely commodified? In this episode, we talk about the status of the author, and how audiences…
Willy Wonka Experience: Every single thing that happened
The viral Glasgow Willy Wonka experience disaster has captured the hearts of the internet, and it feels like new, insane details have been emerging every five minute. So we at…
Tumblr and WordPress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools
Tumblr and Wordpress are preparing to sell user data to Midjourney and OpenAI, according to a source with internal knowledge about the deals and internal documentation referring to the deals. …
Nightshade, the free tool that ‘poisons’ AI models, is now available for artists to use
It’s here: months after it was first announced, Nightshade, a new, free software tool allowing artists to “poison” AI models seeking to train on their works, is now available for…
Adobe is selling fake AI images of the war in Israel-Gaza
Online publications have used a photorealistic image of a missile attack from Adobe Stock without marking it as fake.
AI: An ancient nightmare?
how far back does our fascination with, and our fear of, AI extend?