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Money’s Worth You know how creatives frequently complain about cheapskate clients offering to pay them “in exposure” instead of actual money? Sounds like OpenAI knows exactly what that feels like.…
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Today’s links Paying for it doesn’t make it a market: But competition does. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances:…
Google’s foray into AI-generated journalism — and maybe-possibly destroying the already-teetering media industry along the way — continues. Adweek reports that Google is paying a select group of publishers to…
Reddit and Weep Underlying the storm of hype and funding in the AI sector right now is a scarce resource: data, created by old-fashioned humans, that’s needed to train the…
Late last year, the New York Times became the first major US newspaper to sue OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, claiming the Sam Altman-led company had made unauthorized use…
With entertainment a necessary expense at the best of times, you might find that you’ve signed up for more subscription services than intended. Whether that’s free trials that ran over…
23andMe, the company best known for telling you that you’re not as Italian as your grandma insisted, has just landed a cool $20 million from GSK Plc. Why? For a…
Facebook’s parent company Meta is paying celebrities millions of dollars to let it turn them into silly AI chatbots — and to be honest, we’re still not entirely sure why.…
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Today’s links Paying consumer debts is basically optional in the United States: The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act protects the people who need it least. Hey look at this: Delights…