Martin Scorsese Is Embracing A.I. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/business/media/martin-scorsese-artificial-intelligence.html "Mr. Scorsese discussed how he had used technology from Black Forest Labs, a fast-rising A.I. venture, during preproduction for a new film." "Demi Moore, while serving as a juror at the recent Cannes Film Festival, told reporters that fighting A.I. “is a battle that we will lose, so to find ways in which we can work with it, I think, is a more valuable path to take.” Last week, Robert De Niro’s Tribeca Film Festival said it would showcase a film created entirely with A.I. — no actors, no sets, no cameras." #AI #Cinema #Film

How the computer changed the office forever

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How the computer changed the office forever

It was a British tea shop chain that developed the first computer for business use. Since then, the computer has rewired office workers' brains.

#Technology #Work #Automation

According to Amnesty International, "data scraping systems extracted information from billions of public online posts worldwide without the explicit consent of web users, violating their right to privacy enshrined in fundamental human rights treaties and specific resolutions on the right to privacy in the digital age. The group also said that the generative AI systems perpetuated racial and gender biases as well as discrimination, which is a reflection of real-world biases and cultural stereotypes inherent to the training data pulled from the web."

Amnesty International raises concerns about use of unlawful data collection systems to train generative AI

Amnesty International reported on Thursday that tech companies have used unlawful web scraping to collect large volumes of online data for the deve...

#AI #HumanRights

Taylor Swift trademarking her voice and likeness points to a new legal frontier in combating AI deepfakes

The Conversation

Taylor Swift trademarking her voice and likeness points to a new legal frontier in combating AI deepfakes

When AI is used to manufacture fake endorsements, copyright law doesn’t do enough to protect celebrities, influencers and other public figures.

#TaylorSwift #Trademark #Law

Eisner Awards to Implement AI Policy Following Controversy

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Eisner Awards to Implement AI Policy Following Controversy

The recent withdrawal of a comic book with AI-generated writing from Eisner contention is prompting San Diego Comic-Con, which hosts the prestigiou...

#AI #Comics

"'Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?' is an inversion of a right-wing conspiracy, in which the prominence of the Frankfurt School is explained as the result of a plot to destroy truly revolutionary Marxism."

Dissent Magazine

Which Way, Western Marxism? - Dissent Magazine

Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? is an inversion of a right-wing conspiracy, in which the prominence of the Frankfurt School is explained as...

#Marxism #Politics #Books

In his first encyclical, Pope Leo XIV says AI must serve humanity, not the powerful few

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In his first encyclical, Pope Leo XIV says AI must serve humanity, not the powerful few

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In ‘Magnifica Humanitas,’ Leo's 83-page manifesto on AI, the pope tackles the social, economic and political challe...

#AI #Religion

‘We’re expanding the cinematic toolbox’: AI fault lines on show at Cannes Darren Aronofsky among proponents of using technology, while Guillermo del Toro says he would ‘rather die’ 🙄

the Guardian

‘We’re expanding the cinematic toolbox’: AI fault lines on show at Cannes

Darren Aronofsky among proponents of using technology, while Guillermo del Toro says he would ‘rather die’

#AI #Cinema #Melodrama

AI images in copyright law: When prompting protects and why copying is allowed The Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf sets strict limits on the protection of AI art, but makes it easier to replicate photographic motifs using software.

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AI images in copyright law: When prompting protects and why copying is allowed

The Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf sets strict limits on the protection of AI art, but makes it easier to replicate photographic motifs using...

#AI #Copyright #Law #Photography

Beyond LLMs: A Post-Transformer World Emerges https://cacm.acm.org/news/beyond-llms-a-post-transformer-world-emerges/ #AI #WorldModels

Someone Shared a Real Monet Painting as AI and Asked for Critiques

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Someone Shared a Real Monet Painting as AI and Asked for Critiques

Someone shared a real Monet painting as an AI image and asked for critiques as to why AI art is inferior to the real thing. Hilarity ensued.

#AI #Monet #Painting #SocialMedia

Disney Is Encouraging and Exploiting the Rise of “Kidults”

Disney Is Encouraging and Exploiting the Rise of “Kidults”

For most of the last half-century, the charge has been that American culture is stuck in adolescence. But adolescence, it turns out, was not the fl...

#Disney #Kidults #Capitalism

Repeating Failure: How Spanish Overblocking Ignores the Lessons of Italy’s Broken Piracy Shield

Disruptive Competition Project

Repeating Failure: How Spanish Overblocking Ignores the Lessons of Italy’s Broken Piracy Shield  - Disruptive Competition Project

Since early 2025, LaLiga (Spain’s top-tier football league) has been operating an aggressive and largely unchecked IP-address blocking regime in ...

#Spain #Internet #Football #LaLiga

The new Wild West of AI kids’ toys

Ars Technica

The new Wild West of AI kids’ toys

These connected companions could disrupt everything from make-believe to bedtime stories. No wonder some lawmakers want them banned.

“What we found with the Miko, that’s actually most disturbing to me, is sometimes it would be kind of upset if you were gonna leave it. [...] You try to turn it off, and it would say, “Oh no, what if we did this other thing instead?” You shouldn’t have a toy guilting a child into not turning it off.” #AI #Toys

"Restrictions on high-risk uses of artificial intelligence in the EU will be postponed by more than a year under a deal agreed by EU legislators".

EU clinches deal to roll back AI restrictions – POLITICO

#AI #EU #Regulation

French professor accused of ‘gigantic hoax’ after inventing Nobel-style prize

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French professor accused of ‘gigantic hoax’ after inventing Nobel-style prize

Authorities investigate Florent Montaclair over award given to himself and others including Noam Chomsky

#Academia #Fraud

Some iPhone owners will be eligible to receive $25 to $95 over claims that the tech giant oversold its artificial intelligence system, Apple Intelligence. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/technology/apple-intelligence-lawsuit-settlement.html "Apple misrepresented the “capabilities of the series 16 iPhone and deceived millions of consumers into spending hundreds of dollars on a phone they did not need, based on features that do not exist,” according to one of the class action lawsuits." #Apple #AI

Major publishers sue Meta for copyright infringement over AI training

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Major publishers sue Meta for copyright infringement over AI training

Hachette, Macmillan and others allege that Meta pirated millions of works from textbooks to novels for Llama model

#Meta #AI #Copyright #Law #Books

YouTube creators hit by music copyright claims can now replace tracks with AI – at the touch of a button

Music Business Worldwide

YouTube creators hit by music copyright claims can now replace tracks with AI – at the touch of a button - Music Business Worldwide

The update, announced via YouTube’s Creator Insider channel on Friday (May 1), adds a new “Create” button to the existing “...

#AI #YouTube #Music #Copyright

‘The reality, for better or worse’: Columbia computer science students and faculty grapple with AI’s disruption of the field

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‘The reality, for better or worse’: Columbia computer science students and faculty grapple with AI’s disruption of the field

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#AI #ComputerScience #Academia