4 h. ago Moonvalley releases a video generator it claims was trained on licensed content

Los Angeles-based startup Moonvalley has launched an AI video-generating model it claims is one of the few trained on openly licensed — not copyrighted — data. Named “Marey” after cinema trailblazer Étienne-Jules Marey, the model was built in collaboration with Asteria, a newer AI animation studio. Marey was trained on “owned or fully licensed” source […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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7 d. ago 'I can't be friends with the machine': What audio artists working in games think of AI

The Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance, the union for voice actors and creatives, recently circulated a video of voice actor Thomas G. Burt describing the impact of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) on his livelihood.

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7 d. ago A star generation of women's soccer has retired. A new series shows who to watch next

A trailblazing generation of players is retiring. In a new docuseries from Prime Video, we hear from a new group of players and coaches vying to be the next best in American women's soccer.

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7 d. ago Bodybuilder Jodi Vance dead at 20 as trainer claims 'serious error' led to fatal heart attack

Bodybuilder Jodi Vance has died at just 20 years old after suffering a fatal heart attack due to severe dehydration, her family revealed in a social media post

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9 d. ago New software will help combat deep fake image threats to personal security

Realistic images created by artificial intelligence (AI), including those generated from a text description and those used in video, pose a genuine threat to personal security. From identity theft to misuse of a personal image, spotting what's real and what's fake is getting harder and harder.

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1 week ago OpenAI plans to integrate Sora’s video generator into ChatGPT

OpenAI intends to eventually integrate its AI video generation tool, Sora, directly into its popular consumer chatbot app, ChatGPT, company leaders said during a Friday office hours session on Discord. Today, Sora is only available through a dedicated web app OpenAI launched in December, which lets users access the AI video model of the same […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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2 w. ago Trump's social media video garners pushback from Arabs and Muslims in U.S. and Gaza

In a seemingly AI-generated video that the president posted on social media, images of destruction due to the war in Gaza are transformed into a glitzy resort called "TRUMP GAZA."

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2 w. ago Lawsuit: Google's AI Overview Search Results Are Killing Web Traffic, Revenue

Online education company Chegg has filed a lawsuit against Google in federal district court, claiming that the search giant's AI-generated summaries of search results have devastated Chegg's web traffic and revenue. Worse yet, Chegg claims Google used its vast database of educational materials to train the AI that is now killing its traffic and revenue performance. The post Lawsuit: Google’s AI Overview Search Results Are Killing Web Traffic, Revenue appeared first on Breitbart.

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2 w. ago Google’s new AI video model Veo 2 will cost 50 cents per second

Google has quietly revealed the pricing of Veo 2, the video-generating AI model that it unveiled in December. According to the company’s pricing page, using Veo 2 will cost 50 cents per second of video, which adds up to $30 per minute or $1,800 per hour. Google DeepMind researcher Jon Barron contrasted this pricing with […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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2 w. ago Sakana walks back claims that its AI can dramatically speed up model training

This week, Sakana AI, a Nvidia-backed startup that’s raised hundreds of millions of dollars from VC firms, made a remarkable claim. The company said it had created an AI system, the AI CUDA Engineer, that could effectively speed up the training of certain AI models by a factor of up to 100x. The only problem […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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