CrowdStrike will be liable for damages in France, based on the OVH precedent
Apple Maps on the web launches in beta
The moral bankruptcy of Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz
Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s AI Era | The Circuit
H.R.3696 – DEFIANCE Act of 2024 passed Senate
AI Video Generator Runway Trained on Thousands of YouTube Videos Without Permission
Alphabet Announces Second Quarter 2024 Results (abc.xyz)
Meta just released Llama 3.1 405B (zuck interview)
Open Source AI Is the Path Forward (meta)
WWDC 2024 Apple Intelligence (re-reading)
FTC Issues Orders to Eight Companies Seeking Information on Surveillance Pricing (ftc)
Suno
https://www.suno.ai/
Creates complete songs from text prompts, including lyrics and vocals
Brev.ai
https://brev.ai/
AI Music Generator Free Online (stability AI)
AIVA (Artificial Intelligence Virtual Artist)
https://www.aiva.ai/
Specializes in creating original music for various media
Soundraw
https://soundraw.io/
AI-powered music generator with customizable parameters
Boomy
https://boomy.com/
Allows users to create and distribute AI-generated music
Amper Music
https://www.ampermusic.com/
Offers AI-powered music creation for content creators
OpenAI’s Jukebox
https://openai.com/research/jukebox
Generates music with vocals in various genres and artist styles
Mubert
https://mubert.com/
Generates continuous streams of AI-produced music
Beatoven.ai
https://www.beatoven.ai/
Creates royalty-free music tailored to video content
Loudly
https://loudly.com/
Provides AI-generated music tracks for various purposes
Endel
https://endel.io/
Generates personalized soundscapes for focus, relaxation, and sleep
MuseNet (by OpenAI)
https://openai.com/research/musenet
Deep neural network that can generate 4-minute musical compositions
Google’s Magenta
https://magenta.tensorflow.org/
Open-source research project exploring music and art generation
Amadeus Code
https://amadeuscode.com/
AI-powered songwriting assistant for melody creation
Aiva Music
https://aivamusic.com/
AI composer for creating original music
Splash
https://www.splashmusicai.com/
Produces custom music and sound effects for games and apps
this is a test: “i_was_served_an_ad_that_featured_an_ai_photo_of”. of turning spam into a honeypot
This weekend marked two significant firsts in my life, both involving parting with cherished possessions.
Photograph Sale
I sold a photograph that had adorned my walls for years, bringing joy every time I looked at it. This was my first time ever selling anything. Christie’s handled the sale, and I hope the piece will find a new home with someone who will appreciate it as much as I did.
CD Collection, Farewell
I also sold off my collection of 5,000 CDs, which I hadn’t touched in some time. Initially, this seemed like an obvious decision – a no-brainer when I first considered it. However, as I went through the collection, I found myself awash in memories and rediscovering music that’s no longer available online. At the last minute, I almost changed my mind.
(The decision feels even more perplexing when I remember that I still have most of the important music on vinyl.)
A New Perspective
My new theory is that this is just another step in the journey of artworks and books finding their place in the world. These possessions are moving on, continuing their own stories beyond my walls and making me lighter and more focused in the process.
Gutenberg’s message to the AI era (Brookings) A second effect of AI is its expansion of already existent digital era abuses, such as privacy, competition, truth, and online safety. We have already lived through the exploitation of digital information to manipulate individuals and markets.
Inside the fight over California’s new AI bill (Vox) The shutdown provision requirement [a provision in the bill that requires model developers to have the capability to enact a full shutdown of a covered model, to be able to “unplug it” if things go south] was very high on the list of what person after person was concerned about
Academic authors ‘shocked’ after Taylor & Francis sells access to their research to Microsoft AI The Bookseller asked Taylor & Francis if it was possible to opt out and requested clarification over whether authors had been told about the AI deal. The publisher’s spokesman said he couldn’t comment further.
Privacy OpSec
Company squanders 3.6 billion people’s locations in Germany Data traders are spreading the locations of people in Germany – sometimes even for free, as research by netzpolitik.org and BR shows. A data set with 3.6 billion entries reveals precise movement profiles and a new dimension of mass surveillance.
How to tell if your online accounts have been hacked
AI/ML/Generative
odyssey.systems “hollywood grade” generative media
flowgpt.com Flow Studio – Text to movie show
The making of Eno, the first generative feature film
Japanese media say AI search infringes copyright, urge legal reform
The golden age of scammers: AI-powered phishing
ChatGPT outages and trading dips
Andrej Karpathy ” We are Eureka Labs and we are building a new kind of school that is AI native.
A change log for significant digital events and their drivers.
-ATT Breach :Nearly all ATT customers’ text & call records breached this has to be top 3 in US hexor history, 2022 hack was not revealed until now and after they copped an DOJ exception. Criminals and nation states now have NSA-level view into Americans’ lives. || American Hacker in Turkey Linked to Massive AT&T Breach. – Toll of Snowflake Hack Widens related to Ticketmaster and other exploited and exposed business. /Noteworthy here: AT&T received a National Security Exception from DOJ under the SEC Reporting Requirements. First such exception I’m aware of. (CKrebs)
-The full and final text of the EU AI Act, the European Union’s landmark risk-based regulation for applications of artificial intelligence, has been published in the bloc’s Official Journal.
-The Content Origin Protection and Integrity from Edited and Deepfaked Media Act (COPIED Act), Ec. 4. Facilitation of development of standards for content provenance information and detection of synthetic content and synthetically-modified content. (a) In general.—The Under Secretary shall establish a public-private partnership to facilitate the development of standards regarding content provenance information technologies and the detection of synthetic content and synthetically-modified content, including with respect to the following: (1) Facilitating the development of guidelines and voluntary, consensus-based standards and best practices for: – Watermarking, Content provenance information, Synthetic content and synthetically-modified content detection, including for: • Images • Audio • Video • Text • Multimodal content – The use of data to train artificial intelligence systems Such other matters relating to transparency of synthetic media as the Under Secretary considers appropriate. (standards not law -ed)
RIP : Bill Viola, pioneer video artist who explored nature of human consciousness, dies at 73 (LAT) Bill Viola.com
I was reading Robin Sloan’s new book Moonbound and came across this text which speaks to writing ourselves a better future.
Durga laughed. “What I mean is—we have minds! We dream, and we plan, and then we take action. For that reason, our present is a function of the future we imagine. It is forged in response to vision. If we lack vision—well, then the ghosts will play, and that is our own fault.”
Self fulfilling text that generates a better future
