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are greedy pirates, capable of plundering intellectual property and the unique gifts of creative artists, photographers, musicians and writers.The material they use to inform AI operating systems is essentially stolen booty, scraped from anyone and everyone.Last week, OpenAI held a live demonstration to debut the new voices — Breeze, Cove, Ember, Juniper and Sky — of the company’s ChatGPT 4.0 system. Actress Scarlett Johansson thought Sky sounded familiar.

her Dunkin’ Donuts ad in which alleged husband Ben Affleck became a rapper, to her campy musical film “This Is Me … Now: A Love Story” that co-starred Jane Fonda and Post Malone as zodiac signs.None of it has made a lick of sense.In a modern world that’s obsessed with staying on brand, J.Lo’s brand is more like Newman’s Own — she’s got salad dressing and pet food.Which brings me to “Atlas,” her Netflix science fiction meh-pic that’s a totally uninspired rip-off of “The Terminator” and “Battlestar Galactica.” What is she doing in it?Lopez plays a socially awkward scientist and chess master named Dr. Atlas Shepherd, who must chase down a robot terrorist hiding out on a distant planet where trees look like traffic cones.I know.

love language model.ChatGPT has unveiled a new state-of-the-art interface that allows users to visually show their surroundings to the artificial intelligence counterpart they are communicating with.But even more “striking,” according to users, is the bot’s voice — which some say sounds like Scarlett Johansson’s digital character from the 2013 film “Her,” a modern-day romance between man (Joaquin Phoenix) and machine (Johansson).Called GPT-4o or Omni, the vocal breakthrough brings a realistic, natural and conversational aspect to interacting with AI at a rate “which is similar to human response time in a conversation,” according to the company.“The similarity between Her (2013) and GPT-4o (2024) is striking. Living in the future!” wrote one fan and AI lecturer on X.The similarity between Her (2013) and GPT-4o (2024) is striking.

Rih-awakening tonight.Although fans held their breath in anticipation for Rihanna’s Met Gala red carpet arrival, it seems the sultry singer has been struck with the flu. Insiders close to the “S&M” songstress told People the sudden sickness is keeping her away from the celebration of the Costume Institute’s spring 2024 exhibition, “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion.”But tech-savvy savages tried tricking Twitter users with AI-generated images of the 36-year-old pinup wearing ornate designs on the Met’s steps.

Consistent with Rorschach Theatre’s adventurously immersive productions, the company’s latest, The Human Museum by Miyoko Conley, engages audiences in playful conversation with its themes well before the show even begins.Audiences enter through the titular museum, a hallowed institution operated by robots of Earth in a future where humans are extinct. Created inside the same two-story Connecticut Avenue former retail space where, last fall, Rorschach unleashed Night of the Living Dead Live, the Human Museum passes patrons through galleries filled with artifacts of human existence.Considering this is the work of artificially intelligent bots with only a secondhand concept of what humans were like, the exhibit items have been well chosen.

JamesPercival Everett (Doubleday)Everett’s 2020 novel “Telephone” was a Pulitzer finalist. His latest is a reimagining of “Huckleberry Finn” told from the point of view of Jim the escaped slave.

roar against AI. More than 200 artists, including Katy Perry, Nicki Minaj, Bon Jovi, Billie Eilish, Kacey Musgraves and the Jonas Brothers, have signed an open letter drawing attention to the danger that artificial intelligence poses to the music industry.

happy to ignore until it ran afoul of America’s Sweetheart.This week, deepfake images of the wholesome singer — digitally-altered “photos” portraying her in a compromising sexual position — circulated on X, to Swifties’ disgust. Like Voltron, fans immediately activated, feeding X with praise for the singer to elevate the good and bury the sham smut into the virtual basement. Meanwhile, Swifties also wondered how there are no regulations against someone creating fake porn using the likeness of real people and distributing it for the whole world to behold.It’s an excellent question.

Western television and anime localizers have recently come under fire for injecting “woke” language into English dubs not present in the original work, prompting some companies to implement artificial intelligence (AI) as a way of limiting human intervention or to remove them entirely.The use of AI in the industry is already well underway. On December 21, the official X account for “The Ancient Magus’ Bride” manga announced it would soon return with a simultaneous internal release in English using AI translation created by the Japanese company Mantra.In addition, Funimation, an American subscription video-on-demand service for anime, recently merged with the Sony Group Corporation-owned streaming service Crunchyroll.

Karma.” Several die-hard Taylor Swift fans have been reportedly scammed out of hundreds of dollars after tricksters released advertisements employing AI-generated video of the Grammy winner peddling Le Creuset in an attempt to steal money and data from fans. The ads — which can be found across all social media platforms — show Swift, 34, standing next to the Le Creuset Dutch oven, which, according to the official website, runs anywhere from $180 to $750 depending on the size and style.

Austin Butler’s Oscar-nominated turn in 2022’s “Elvis” and then continued with Jacob Elordi’s portrayal of the late rock legend in Sofia Coppola’s recent “Priscilla” drama is showing no signs of dying down with a new immersive show that will bring him back to life in an AI hologram. Forty-seven years after Presley’s 1977 death, “Elvis Evolution” will open in London in November 2024 at a theater yet to be announced.

Variety. Approved by both Stewart’s estate and family, the sleep time app managed to re-create the voice of the Hollywood legend, who died in 1997 at the age of 89 due to pulmonary embolism, through AI voice-cloning technology. “Well, hello.

Ridley Scott, director of sci-fi classics like “Alien” and “Blade Runner,” is terrified about AI technology running away with society.In an interview with Rolling Stone promoting his film “Napoleon,” Scott was asked if artificial intelligence worried him, and the answer was an emphatic yes.“We have to lock down AI. And I don’t know how you’re gonna lock it down,” he told the outlet. “They have these discussions in the government, ‘How are we gonna lock down AI?’ Are you f—ing kidding? You’re never gonna lock it down.

The Orb and Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour are offering fans the chance to create remixes of their own music using AI.They teamed up with Sony to launch the project, metallicspheres.io, which was launched today (November 28) and lets you remix songs from The Orb and Gilmour’s collaborative album, ‘Metallic Spheres In Colour’, which was released in September. The album is an extended version of the artists’ 2010 album, ‘Metallic Spheres’.The metallicspheres.io website will enable you to create personalised remixes using AI or piece together a track by using various samples of Gilmour’s guitar, vocals and other elements.It’s even possible to select emotional themes for the album’s artwork and alter preferences regarding mood and tempo, meaning the AI can produce a unique track with these characteristics in mind.You can then share the remixes to social media , along with the reimagined album covers, which will soon be available for download.The AI on the website was created by a company called Vermillio, a pioneering generative AI platform with a focus on creator empowerment and content authenticity.

pic.twitter.com/0Cf42iyxHI— Anna Indiana (@AnnaIndianaAI) November 24, 2023No one on Earth wants this technology.

https://t.co/TNiwrKkPEJ pic.twitter.com/JnZ7IoUAOt— Council of Music Makers (@CounMusicMakers) November 20, 2023Frazer added: “The UK’s strengths and accomplishments in art and entertainment mean we are well placed to take advantage of developing technologies in this field. But creatives rightly have concerns – and proposals – about how their work is used by artificial intelligence now and in the future, and I want to hear them.”She continued: “As Culture Secretary I want to maximise the potential of our creative industries and grow them by £50 billion by 2030, creating one million new jobs.

Yahoo! Entertainment Wednesday that he filmed a very different cameo as the Man of Steel for DC’s “The Flash” compared to the one that made the final cut. “First and foremost, I was on set,” Cage, 59, said, dispelling rumors that the footage of the “National Treasure” star was simply a repurposed costume test from Tim Burton’s never-made film “Superman Lives.”“What I was supposed to do was literally just be standing in an alternate dimension, if you will, and witnessing the destruction of the universe.” Cage continued. “Kal-El was bearing witness [to] the end of a universe, and you can imagine with that short amount of time that I had, what that would mean in terms of what I can convey.”“I had no dialogue [so had to] convey with my eyes the emotion.

Variety, the 22-second clip, which has since been deleted from the internet, first appeared on X (formerly Twitter) on Saturday using an old clip of Johansson, 38, during a behind-the-scenes look at her film “Black Widow.” “What’s up, guys? It’s Scarlett and I want you to come with me,” the “Avengers” star says before the clip transitions to a group of AI-generated pictures that resemble the star“It’s not limited to avatars only,” a voiceover continues, sounding very similar to Johansson. “You can also create images with texts and even your AI videos.

“The White Album.”“John and Yoko had got together and that was bound to have an effect on the dynamics of the group,” McCartney explained on the podcast “McCartney: A Life in Lyrics.” “Things like Yoko being literally in the middle of the recording session [were] something you had to deal with.”“The idea was that if John wanted this to happen, then it should happen. There’s no reason why not,” continued the “Yellow Submarine” performer. “Anything that disturbs us, is disturbing.”The British vocalist/songwriter would not let the subject be, adding that other members of the iconic group found the “disturbance” annoying.

Prom Pact was first released in March this year, but one short clip from the movie is spreading online this week.The scene shows a cheering crowd at a high school basketball game – but one row of audience members look markedly different to those around them.While the people in the front row are all normal human actors, a close look at the row of “people” them is very disturbing indeed: Dead-eyed and stiff, their bodies jerk strangely as they stare straight ahead.They seem more like animated blow-up dolls than humans.

replicating us may not be unfounded: Meta set off alarm bells after introducing an AI chatbot named Billie that resembled Kendall Jenner so closely, they thought it was the model herself. A video introducing the creepy Kardashian doppelganger is currently eliciting screams across the web.“Hey guys it’s Billie,” greets the Jenner facsimile in the clip, which was posted to the AI’s Instagram page @yoursisbillie, where it currently boasts over 118,000 followers.Billie bills herself on Instagram “like having an older sister you can talk to, but who can’t steal your clothes.”In the clip, the “Keeping” — or perhaps creeping — “Up With The Kardashian” star’s digital lookalike tells viewers: “I just want to introduce myself.

according to IMDB’s Box Office Mojo.The Post called the slasher flick — which stars Ellen Burstyn and Linda Blair reprising their roles from the original — “a dud” and “awful.”“PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie” remained in second place with close to $2.9 million in sales.Kim Kardashian, who voiced the character Delores in the 2021 original, returned for the sequel and this time was joined by her two eldest children North and Saint West, who also lent their voices to characters.“Saw X,” which was in first place last week, came in third, earning $2.4 million. Sci-fi action thriller “The Creator,” which was in the number three spot last week, moved down a notch to fourth with a just over $1.7 million take.

Robin Williams’ daughter, Zelda Williams, is slamming the use of artificial intelligence to recreate her late dad.“I am not an impartial voice in SAG’s fight against AI,” Zelda, 34, wrote via her Instagram Story on Sunday. “I’ve witnessed for YEARS how many people want to train these models to create/recreate actors who cannot consent, like Dad.”She added: “This isn’t theoretical, it is very very real.”“I’ve already heard AI used to get his ‘voice’ to say whatever people want and while I find it personally disturbing, the ramifications go far beyond my own feelings,” she went on.

sully his name.Tom Hanks, 67, took to Instagram on Sunday to warn followers that he was not involved in a promotional video for a dental plan that he says features an AI-generated version of himself.“Beware!!” Hanks wrote in the caption of a photo of his mysterious doppelgänger.“There’s a video out there promoting some dental plan with an AI version of me,” the message continued. “I have nothing to do with it.”The Post reached out to Hanks’ reps for comment.This is not the first time the “Forrest Gump” star, who was digitally de-aged in Robert Zemeckis’ upcoming film “Here,” has shared concerns about artificial intelligence.

he told Variety. So he came up with a negotiation he could pitch to studio heads with a camera crew in the room.“So you want my scans and voice data and all that.

We already know Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) is one of the sticking points in both the SAG and WGA strikes. And we’ve already seen instances where fans have used fairly rudimentary technology to create some truly fascinating (and scary) content with this A.I.

X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, in March.Everything about Verano’s reality is augmented, including her chest — which appears to have undergone digital plastic surgery. Meanwhile, it seems her thousands of followers drooling over her revealing bikini photos and videos might need psychic surgery after falling for her designer’s digital code. Commenters underneath a video of Verano walking down the beach in a bikini posted Friday can’t seem to tell that the influencer is fake.“Love this vacation video! It has three (maybe four) of my favorite things in it!’ Verano wrote as the caption of her video.

during a conversation Thursday with astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson about the growing prevalence of AI.“AI can study everything instantly,” Tyson, 64, asserted on the daytime talk show. “But it can also lie,” co-host Joy Behar, 80, said.Tyson continued to explain that he feels people are wrongly grouping all of AI into one category and deeming it problematic when humanity has already welcomed a version of it into their daily lives. “When you call Siri, you’re talking to Siri.

Joe Biden would look like in a Barbie World? You’re in luck: An enterprising film editor is cashing in on the rabid “Barbie” movie craze by giving the US president and other A-listers Mattel-inspired makeovers with the aid of artificial intelligence. “I absolutely loved making these photos — I was laughing the whole way through,” freelancer Duncan Thomsen, 53, said of his star-studded AI “Barbiefication” campaign.

The Hollywood Reporter.The 61-year-old reportedly rallied against the takeover of artificial intelligence in a statement now echoed by thousands of actors and entertainers in Hollywood, who are striking with the Writers Guild of America (WGA) for the first time in over six decades.Cruise hopped on the call in a desperate bid to get the AMPTP to re-evaluate its stance on AI in the TV and film streaming era.The actor’s latest “Mission: Impossible” movie has ground to a halt as a result of the strike action, as have dozens of other high-profile projects, including the “Avatar” sequel, “Gladiator 2” and “Deadpool 3.”During the Zoom call, Cruise also addressed the guild’s stance on stunt actors, according to the outlet.The actor asked the AMPTP to allow performers to continue on with their press tours following the strike, due to the “fragile state of movie theaters” following the pandemic.He said promoting films is just as “important” to the actors as it is to the studio, the outlet adds.The union protecting Hollywood’s biggest A-listers on Thursday joined forces with screenwriters on the picket line after voting to shut down production across the entertainment industry, which may result in a drought of shows and movies in the near future.The SAG-AFTRA unanimously voted to stop working after their contract expired and talks broke off with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), which represents streaming giants like Disney, Netflix, Amazon and others.The strike marks the first time the 160,000-member-strong SAG-AFTRA has walked off film and TV jobs since 1980.The actor-screenwriter strike is the first joint walkout in more than six decades.Both SAG-AFTRA and the WGA are demanding a rise in pay and