This is an excerpt from Alex Heath’s source, a newsletter about the AI and the tech industry, once a week syndicate for Verge Subscribers.
This week, I took a closer look at how far Silicon Valley and Hollywood are far away.
First, in the open David, Sam Altman presented the new Surah app as a gift to content creators. If anything is, he suggested, was getting open Very sensational By not allowing people to make more AI videos.
“Overall, creators, rights people are very excited about his abilities,” said in a media question in San Francisco on Monday. “They believe it will deepen. It is like a new generation of such fan fiction.”
The next day, I arrived BloombergThe screen time event in Los Angeles to hear how media executives, agents and studios heads felt about AI Alka, who is on his way. Surah had just hit a million downloads in the App Store and had a mind for everyone. Overall, I came to the impression that Hollywood leaders have no idea what to do about the AI threat, and they are stepping through the technology that is moving faster than their understanding.
David Allison, CEO of Paramount Sky Dennis called AI a “new pencil” so that created
I lost the count that how often a version of the phrase “we care about copyright” was called like a prayer. At the same time, no one in the program wanted to pay attention to the fact that Openi clearly trained on his IP without permission and released a product that at least initially, was not ashamed to clarify. The fact is that Hollywood leaders are unable to share a public view on the issue, or even more importantly, what they are going to do about it, they should be worrisome for everyone working in the business.
During the stage, Greg Peters co -Flix co -CEO Greg Peters fully scattered a question BloombergEspecially about Surah, Lucas Shaw, especially about Surah, talked about more boring methods, which is being used in almost every part of the productive process. David Allison, CEO of Paramount Skydance, also chose to stop the AI’s less controversial, tool aspect, and called it a “new pencil” to make it. I just heard an executive that came close to solving the real problem on everyone’s minds, Warner music CEO (and former YouTube executive), Robert Canal, who made it clear that a license must be given to train Warner’s content, and for those who did not follow the rules.
It is not surprising that the music industry says, at the moment, Heming and Hongs are being done by big skilled agencies. Labels have been given a better position to take AI companies as a stable group of players who have navigated a version of the problem with the height of music streaming. Cunkel predicted to the extent that the AI music industry would benefit the long -term advantage, just as YouTube finally solved its copyright problem and was developed in a major distribution platform for the entertainment industry.
They may be especially fine about music, but the lack of collective action from the rest of the Hollywood means that AI companies are ready to stay away from apologizing rather than permission. Openi’s decision to train Surah was a deliberate choice, no accident, and it showed a complete lack about the implications of sucking each content to feed its AI. The opposite is just following the same playbox that has used the tech industry to gain dominance in the past, so who can blame it this time?
