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Celine Dion has warned fans against “fake” AI-generated songs circulating online.In a statement posted on Instagram yesterday (March 7), representatives for the ‘It’s All Coming Back To Me Now’ singer wrote: “It has come to our attention that unsanctioned, AI-generated music purporting to contain Celine Dion’s musical performances, and name and likeness, is currently circulating online and across various Digital Service Providers.”It continued: “Please be advised that these recordings are fake and not approved, and are not songs from her official discography.”Though they didn’t name any particular songs, an AI-generated cover of Dion singing the gospel song ‘Heal Me Lord’ was recently uploaded to YouTube and has amassed over one million views.A post shared by Céline Dion (@celinedion)Dion has joined a multitude of musicians who have been coming out against AI in the past year.

Elon Musk‘s xAI artificial intelligence firm has acquired X – the social media platform formally known as Twitter – for $33billion (£25.5billion).The all-stock deal announced on Friday (March 28) values xAI at $80billion and X at $33billion. Musk paid $44 billion for Twitter in 2022.“xAI and X’s futures are intertwined,” Musk wrote on X, announcing the transaction.

The Brutalist faced throughout awards season for using AI to alter the voices of its leads.The Oscar-winning drama, which follows the fictional Hungarian-born Jewish architect László Tóth (Adrien Brody) as he moves to the US with his wife Erzsébet (Felicity Jones), was subject to criticism after editor Dávid Jancsó shared that AI was used to alter Brody and Jones’ Hungarian accents.Soon after, director Brady Corbet clarified the details, saying: “Adrien and Felicity’s performances are completely their own”, adding that “Innovative Respeecher technology was used in Hungarian language dialogue editing only, specifically to refine certain vowels and letters for accuracy. No English language was changed”.Nevertheless, the performance was seen as tainted by some, particularly those who were a fan of Timothee Chalamet’s work in Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown.

Crash Bandicoot and Guitar Hero games. A number of adverts created using generative AI recently appeared across Activision Blizzard’s social media accounts, promoting brand new additions to beloved franchises like Crash Bandicoot and Guitar Hero (via VGC).One ad promoted Crash Bandicoot Brawl, a “fast-paced, round survival game where 30+ contestants compete against one another in wacky platforming, puzzle-solving and obstacle course challenges.” Another was for Guitar Hero Mobile, a “fast-paced, competitive mobile rhythm game where players face off in real-time musical battles, hitting notes in sync with the music to climb the global leaderboards and become the ultimate rockstar.”A post shared by Activision (@activision)A new mobile Call Of Duty game was also being promoted across Activison’s feed.

Led Zeppelin‘s Jimmy Page has hit out at the UK government over their AI copyright plan and its impact on music and arts.The legendary guitarist’s comments come as the UK government is planning to make changes to copyright laws – making it easier for artificial intelligence platforms to develop and train their models using copyrighted work, without needing a license.They would be allowed to use material online without respecting copyright if doing so for “text or data mining”. This would be allowed unless the rights holders chose to “opt-out”.Page took to his official Instagram account to express his concerns over the proposition, explaining that the opt-out system would allow for the exploration of artists without proper compensation.“Today, as artificial intelligence seeks to mimic and monetise creativity, we stand at a crossroads.

Jeff Herrity arrived at art late in life. The Fairfax native was working in “corporate America” when, at the age of 48, he decided to pack it in and enroll at Washington’s famed Corcoran School of Art. “I was like the afterschool special,” he laughs.

Queen‘s Brian May has put forth his opinion in the ongoing discourse around AI in music.On Tuesday (February 25), over 1,000 artists including Damon Albarn, Kate Bush and Annie Lennox released a silent album in protest of planned changes to copyright AI laws planned by the UK government.The effort comes as the UK government is planning to make changes to copyright laws – making it easier for artificial intelligence platforms to develop and train their models using copyrighted work, without needing a license.They would be allowed to use material online without respecting copyright if doing so for “text or data mining”. This would be allowed unless the rights holders chose to “opt-out”.May is the latest to join the protest – specifically, as part of a campaign by Daily Mail, as their latest report on it features the guitarist sharing his opinion on the matter.“My fear is that it’s already too late – this theft has already been performed and is unstoppable, like so many incursions that the monstrously arrogant billionaire owners of Al and social media are making into our lives.

Damon Albarn, Kate Bush and Annie Lennox have released a silent album in protest of planned changes to copyright AI laws planned by the UK government. Check it out below.Dubbed ‘Is This What We Want?’, the album is completely silent, and is made with the hopes of drawing attention to the potential impact that artificial intelligence could have on the music industry.“In the music of the future, will our voices go unheard?” said Kate Bush in a new statement (via BBC).

Avatar franchise creator and director James Cameron has reportedly confirmed that Fire And Ash will include an anti-AI disclaimer – find out more below.Avatar: Fire And Ash – the title for the third film in the franchise was announced last August – is set for release on December 19, following 2009’s Avatar and sequel Avatar: The Way Of Water, which was released in 2022.Over the weekend, Cameron attended a Q&A session in New Zealand with a live audience to discuss the film. According to film graduate Josh Harding on X (formerly Twitter), Cameron has confirmed that Avatar: Fire And Ash will open with a title card that reads “no generative AI was used in the making of this movie”.Such an *incredible* talk.

viral video using AI-generated celebrities to protest Kanye West‘s antisemitism has defended his decision to use the stars’ likenesses without their permission.The video features AI-generated versions of Mark Zuckerberg, Scarlett Johansson, Drake, David Schwimmer, Jerry Seinfeld, Ben Stiller and more sporting a white t-shirt with the Star of David in a middle finger emblem, with West’s name written beneath it.Adam Sandler, Mila Kunis, Jack Black, Natalie Portman, Steven Spielberg are among the other major stars whose likeness is used in the video, which serves as a direct response to West’s long history of antisemitic comments and his recent attempt to sell a swastika t-shirt on his website.In a new interview with The Jewish Chronicle, Guy Bar, the Israeli founder of an AI tech hub called Elevaitor, explained why he decided to use AI-generated celebrities instead of Jewish activities to make the video.“It had to be [created] very, very fast. If you take time [after West’s T-shirt controversy], it wouldn’t be relevant,” said Bar.

Scarlett Johansson has slammed an AI-generated video in which a likeness of her appears with other celebrities condemning Kanye West.The deepfake video included AI generated images of several pop culture figures, including Johansson, sporting “Fuck Kanye” t-shirts days after the rapper was banned from X after posting a series of anti semitic statements.Last week (February 7), West returned to X and began by voicing his support for Diddy and Chris Brown, and urged for the former to be released from prison amid sexual abuse allegations.His X posts grew increasingly more concerning as he began to claim “dominion” over his wife Censori before going on to withdraw his apology to the Jewish community for past anti-Semitic comments, as well as declaring himself as “a Nazi” and a slew of other demeaning posts that targeted several communities.After this, West later directed followers to his site, where a single item was on sale – a white t-shirt with a large swastika on the chest listed as “HH-01”. The site has since been taken down, and Kanye’s X account has been deactivated.In protest, a deepfake AI video was shared on social media with the caption “enough is enough”.

AI-created deepfake video of several pop culture figures sporting “Fuck Kanye” t-shirts has gone viral in protest to the rapper’s recent string of controversial social media posts.Over the last two weeks, Kanye West – now legally known has Ye – has courted unprecedented levels of controversy. Last week, Kanye attended the Grammys red carpet with his wife Bianca Censori, who wore a see-through dress revealing her fully nude figure.After that, he revealed in an interview that he has autism and believes he had been misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2016.

Marvel has denied that it used AI to craft a new poster for The Fantastic Four: First Steps, despite some fans raising suspicions.On Tuesday (February 4), the first trailer for the upcoming entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) was released, causing many fans to overflow with excitement and asking, “Is Marvel back?”.The film stars Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Stranger Things star Joseph Quinn as the titular quartet, a group of superpowered scientists that are being incorporated into the MCU for the first time.Along with the trailer, the film’s initial poster was also shared on Tuesday, and some fans have speculated that the studio might have employed artificial intelligence in its design. Among causes of the suspicions are a character apparently sporting four fingers instead of five and two characters with the same replicated face.See the poster here:The Wrap reached out to Marvel representatives for a reaction to the backlash, and the studio confirmed that AI was not used in the poster’s creation.The film is due to be released on July 25 and has been made possible by Marvel’s parent company Disney acquiring 20th Century Fox in 2019.

Elton John has backed Paul McCartney over his criticism towards AI in proposed changes to copyright law.The UK government is currently considering altering the copyright law to allow AI developers use of creators’ content on the internet if they are data or text mining to help develop their models.The proposals would give artists or creators a “rights reservation” to opt out, but has been criticised by many who believe it would be impossible for an individual to notify thousands of different AI service providers, or to monitor what has happened to their work across the entire internet.Speaking in an an interview on Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg, earlier today (January 26) the former Beatle spoke out against the proposed changes, saying they could remove the monetary incentive for artists to create work and cause a “loss of creativity”He added: “You get young guys, girls, coming up, and they write a beautiful song, and they don’t own it, and they don’t have anything to do with it. And anyone who wants can just rip it off.”He continued: “We’re the people, you’re the government! You’re supposed to protect us.

Paul McCartney has criticised proposed changes to copyright law, saying if it goes ahead it will allow AI to rip off artists and result in a “loss of creativity”.The UK government is currently considering altering the copyright law to allow AI developers use of creators’ content on the internet if they are data or text mining to help develop their models.The proposals would give artists or creators a “rights reservation” to opt out, but has been criticised by many who believe it would be impossible for an individual to notify thousands of different AI service providers, or to monitor what has happened to their work across the entire internet.Now, the former Beatle has spoken out against the proposed changes, saying they could remove the monetary incentive for artists to create work and cause a “loss of creativity”.“When we were kids in Liverpool, we found a job that we loved, but it also paid the bills,” he said during an interview on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg. “You get young guys, girls, coming up, and they write a beautiful song, and they don’t own it, and they don’t have anything to do with it. And anyone who wants can just rip it off.”“The truth is, the money’s going somewhere… Somebody’s getting paid, so why shouldn’t it be the guy who sat down and wrote Yesterday?”He went on to urge the government to reconsider the changes, saying: “We’re the people, you’re the government! You’re supposed to protect us.

The Brutalist director Brady Corbet has defended the epic period drama amid backlash surrounding the use of AI in Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones’ performances.The movie, which follows fictional Hungarian-born Jewish architect, László Tóth (Brody), as he moves to the US with his wife Erzsébet (Jones), has been acclaimed by critics. However, it’s also been the subject of criticism after editor Dávid Jancsó shared that AI was used to alter Brody and Jones’ Hungarian accents.Following the criticism, with some speculating that AI technology had been used to improve the stars’ performances, Corbet defended its use in a statement provided to The Hollywood Reporter.He said, “Adrien and Felicity’s performances are completely their own.

Brad Pitt has addressed news of a woman in France being scammed out of out of over $800,000 by someone impersonating him using AI.The woman, known as Anne, was made to believe she was in a relationship with Pitt and was scammed into paying €830,000 (£700,000) to help him pay medical bills. This lasted for a year and a half, during which Anne was tricked into thinking Pitt needed cancer treatment because his accounts had been frozen during divorce proceedings with Angelina Jolie.Anne was first contacted in February 2023 after she joined Instagram to share photos of a skiing holiday in the French Alps.

AI-generated Brad Pitt scammed a French woman out of over $800,000 after she was convinced that they were in love and he needed money for cancer treatment.The woman, known as Anne, handed over €830,000 (around £700,000 or $850,000) to the fraudster over the course of a year and a half, after she received a message from someone purporting to be Jane Etta Pitt, the actor’s mother, telling her she was exactly the woman her son needed.A day later, an AI imitation of the star messaged her, asking to know more about her. The scam artist would then send her poems and declarations of love, before asking her to marry him in a plot to get her to send over money.

Kate Bush has become the latest to sign a petition speaking out against artificial intelligence (AI) using artists’ work without their permission.The campaign emerged earlier this year and states that “the unlicensed use of creative works for training generative AI is a major, unjust threat to the livelihoods of the people behind those works, and must not be permitted”.It arose in light of ongoing legal issues between the creative world and tech firms over the use of their work to train AI models such as ChatGPT. Find the full statement here.Back in October, it gathered more momentum as both Radiohead‘s Thom Yorke and ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus signed the petition, alongside 11,500 others.

Mariah Carey has responded to allegations following the release of a Spotify Wrapped video message, with fans accusing the singer of using an AI-generated likeness of herself in the clip.Earlier this week (December 4), Carey released a video message addressing Spotify users who were listed as her top fans on Spotify Wrapped, which reflects their listening habits from the past 12 months in its ‘Celebration Of Your Year’ experience.“Your support through the years is the greatest gift I could ask for,” Carey – decked out in a Christmas outfit with red lipstick – told fans in the clip.However, response to the clip included fans wondering aloud via X/Twitter whether the Carey they saw in the clip was real or AI-generated based on her appearance.Carey noticed the comments and responded to them in a tweet: “Bad lighting and a red lip have you all thinking this is AI??” she wrote. “There’s a reason I’m not a fan of either of those things!”In a 2015 interview with Elle, Carey admitted her dislike for red lipstick and that she “personally” wouldn’t wear it.

Artificial Intelligence over the next four years.The figures come from the first global economic study examining the impact of AI on human creativity, by the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC).Without intervention from policymakers, those working in the music sector are predicted to see more than a 20% decrease in their income, while AI developers in the music industry are set to gain €4bn (up from €0.1bn in 2023), per The Guardian.The annual market for generative AI is currently €3bn, which is predicted to rise to €64bn by 2028.Elsewhere, the study highlighted the threats AI pose to creators under the current regulatory frameworks that are in place in most countries.