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Harvard Business School has launched HBS Foundry, an eight-week entrepreneurship bootcamp where AI-generated clones of faculty help founders practice investor pitches and refine business ideas. The $699 program combines AI avatars with live expert sessions, serving 760 founders so far. While students report high satisfaction, the experiment raises questions about scaling education through AI versus traditional human mentorship.
Dr. Dre reveals he uses AI in music production and compares resistance to backlash against drum machines and synthesizers. Jimmy Iovine sees no downside to AI tools in music production. The stance comes as streaming services like Spotify, Apple Music and Deezer implement AI labeling and restrictions amid concerns over AI-generated music flooding platforms.
LinkedIn's new AI slop reporting tool has been used over 1 million times since launching on July 30. Chief Product Officer Hari Srinivasan reports users now see 40% fewer views of AI-generated content. The platform is also notifying creators when their posts are flagged as seeming AI-generated.
Prominent filmmaking YouTube creators Matti Haapoja and Sam 'Kold' Kolder sparked intense backlash after posting videos promoting AI platform Higgsfield's Seedance 2.5 technology. Fans and fellow creators questioned the transparency of these partnerships, with critics arguing the unlabeled content undermined creator-audience trust while promoting generative AI tools trained on uncredited human-made content.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day's official artbook sparked an AI art controversy after fans identified concept art showing warped taxis and distorted buildings. The 208-page collector's book released August 18 features one image raising questions about generative AI use in Hollywood productions and artistic credit transparency.
Apple Music is making AI transparency labels mandatory for all AI-generated songs later this year. While over a third of monthly uploads are now fully AI-generated content, these tracks account for less than 0.5% of actual listening on the platform. The move makes Apple Music the last major streaming service to implement visible AI disclosure.
A Pew Research study analyzing nearly 500,000 webpages found that 10% of current web content shows significant signs of AI authorship, with the rate jumping to 35% for pages published after ChatGPT's November 2022 release. Commercial .com domains show AI authorship at 10 times the rate of educational or government sites.
Adobe released three AI audio tools within Firefly that generate music, speech, and sound effects with universal licensing. The move addresses copyright concerns that have plagued competitors like Suno, which recently lost a German court case over copyright violations.
Bangalore-based Murf AI is releasing its Falcon 2 voice AI model on August 20 at $0.01 per generated minute, undercutting ElevenLabs by 80%. The text-to-speech AI model scores above some OpenAI entries on the Artificial Analysis leaderboard while delivering sub-100 millisecond response times, targeting enterprise customers in call centers, banking and airlines.
Anthropic introduced invisible watermarks on Claude-generated text to meet EU AI Act requirements by December 2024. Developer Guillaume Meyer published a bypass tool within 4 hours that's been bookmarked over 20,000 times. Experts warn watermarking generated text won't work due to easy removal through light edits, translation, or open-source models.
Robin Williams' three children have reactivated their father's Instagram account, dormant since 2014, to fight widespread AI abuse of his voice and likeness. The move comes as Zelda Williams continues speaking out against AI-generated recreations that she says reduce her father's legacy to "horrible TikTok slop."
Meta ran advertisements for Kromix, an AI image styling service that created sexual deepfakes of US politicians. The campaign ran 32 ads targeted at male users before being removed after WIRED investigation. Apple pulled the app from its App Store, citing policy violations for nonconsensual intimate imagery.
MIT researchers discovered that AI-generated images from large diffusion models like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion cannot be traced to specific training data due to attribution decay. The phenomenon means removing individual artworks or entire artist portfolios from training datasets produces identical outputs, raising questions about copyright lawsuits and intellectual property claims against AI companies.
Reddit launched an AI-powered feature converting text posts into narrated videos with multi-voice text-to-speech. The experiment targets popular threads, offering a toggle between traditional text and TikTok-style video format as CEO Steve Huffman battles content migration to rival platforms.
Elon Musk's xAI is fighting Minnesota's groundbreaking AI nudification ban in federal court, with the Department of Justice backing the company's concerns about state overreach. Minnesota defends the law as necessary protection against digital sexual violence, citing evidence that Grok generated over 23,000 sexualized images of children in just 11 days.
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