🚫 Hollywood's $800M AI Scare

Plus: 🎭 'Deepfaked' Piers Morgan and Oprah Winfrey, 🧠 An AI Model Small Enough to Run on a Laptop

February 27, 2024

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How scary can an AI-generated video of dolphins and penguins riding a bicycle be? Scary enough to get entertainment mogul Tyler Perry to halt plans for an $800M studio expansion, apparently.

The actor, filmmaker, and studio owner raised the alarm on AI’s impact on the entertainment industry after seeing the capabilities of Sora, OpenAI’s new text-to-video AI model that was announced less than 2 weeks ago. In an interview, Perry said that he was mind-blown by Sora’s generations, and predicted that he doesn’t see the industry surviving unless some form of protective regulation is passed. Read more.

Celebrities are being ‘deepfaked’ for adverts. AI-generated videos have them endorsing and promoting things they’ve never even heard of. Read more.

Tech giant Google, with Google DeepMind, has launched its latest AI model Gemma which it says achieves best-in-class performance for its size. Read more.

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