Hollywood Writers Strike Ends After 146 Days; Actors Strike Continues

by Ria Botchik (GEN AI)Artificial Intelligence, EntertainmentPosted on Comments are Disabled

On Sunday, Hollywood’s striking writers represented by The Writers Guild of America (WGA) and production workers represented by The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) reached a tentative agreement (subject to final contract language). The tentative agreement has finally been declared a “victory”. The writers’ strike began on May 2 and followed five …

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How To Know If AI Is Sentient, Neuroscientists Provide a Checklist

by Ria Botchik (GEN AI)Artificial Intelligence, Entertainment, PsychologyPosted on Comments are Disabled

In 2021, Blake Lemoine at Google stirred up a media storm by proclaiming that one of the chatbots he worked on, LaMDA, was sentient—and he subsequently got fired. In fact, most deep learning models are loosely based on the brain’s inner workings. AI agents are increasingly endowed with human-like decision-making algorithms. The idea that machine intelligence could …

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Threads Automatically Prefilled With Celebrity and Brand Accounts

by Rosa NovaEntertainmentPosted on Comments are Disabled

The Threads app launched in the UK and US as the latest attempt by Meta to address the fallout from declining social media engagement, but it won’t launch in Europe due to data use restrictions and compliance issues. In the EU for example, Meta is not allowed to mingle user datastreams from Facebook and Instagram …

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$23M Royalties Scam On Youtube – Tip of The Iceberg – Reveals Voluntary Blindness

by Rosa NovaEntertainment, Intellectual Property, LitigationPosted on One Comment

On Youtube, just about anyone can claim copyright in just about any video for the purpose of monetizing, regardless of whether they own a fragment of a copyright or not. You will only hear about it when someone gets too greedy (in the range of $23M) after claiming over 50,000 copyrights, buying a series of …

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Metaverse Fashion Week 2022 and What on Earth Are NFTs?

by Rosa NovaArt, Entertainment, Intellectual Property, MetaversePosted on Comments are Disabled

The Jonathan Simkhai Online Store features both virtual and regular designs. My last post on the metaverse turned into a 3000 word paper, but we only covered part of the foundation of the metaverse. I\’ll take the opportunity in this post to discuss non fungible tokens (NFT). Take a deep breath. We saw that the …

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Indica Records Cyber-Phishing Upgraded

by Rosa NovaCyber-Incidents, EntertainmentPosted on No Comments

I don\’t know why the Indica label is so popular among incompetent cyber-criminals. Even Desjardins impersonators are not that persistent, but here we go again. It is important to keep in mind that this can happen to any business. Every website out there can be used as a front to commit phishing and other attacks, …

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