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The Chinese Streaming Industry Is Being Gutted by AI-Generated Shows

The Chinese Streaming Industry Is Being Gutted by AI-Generated Shows

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Earlier this year, TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance released the latest version of its Seedance AI video generating tool. Impressively photorealistic footage of Will Smith battling a ferocious spaghetti monster or Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise engaging in hand-to-hand combat sent Hollywood into a frenzy, highlighting ongoing concerns over the status of human creativity in the age of AI. It’s not just Hollywood struggling to adapt to a new reality. As the New York Times reports, Chinese directors, actors, and crew share these concerns. They’ve watched as generative AI has caused the number of “microdramas” — ultra-short-form serialized clips optimized for mobile viewing — being produced to skyrocket. The format has caught on like wildfire in China, quickly turning into a massive multibillion-dollar business. According to the paper, some 50,000 new AI-generated microdramas were added to Douyin, China’s TikTok in March alone. Many of them are racking up hundreds of millions of views, in a growing AI-based content factory …

AI-generated actors and scripts are now ineligible for Oscars

AI-generated actors and scripts are now ineligible for Oscars

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The organization behind the Academy Awards released new Oscar rules on Friday, including several that address the use of generative artificial intelligence. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said that only performances “credited in the film’s legal billing and demonstrably performed by humans with their consent” will be eligible for Academy Awards. Similarly, the academy said that screenplays must be “human-authored” to be eligible. The academy also said it has the right to request more information about a film’s AI usage and “human authorship.” These rule changes come as an independent film is in the works with an AI-generated version of Val Kilmer, as AI “actress” Tilly Norwood keeps making headlines, and as new video models are causing at least a few filmmakers to make sweeping declarations of despair. AI was also one of the main sticking points in the actors’ and writers’ strikes back in 2023. Outside Hollywood, at least one novel has been pulled by its publisher due to the apparent use of AI, and other writers’ groups are declaring that …

Amazon’s New AI-Generated “Podcasts” Shilling Every Imaginable Products Are Already Backfiring Spectacularly

Amazon’s New AI-Generated “Podcasts” Shilling Every Imaginable Products Are Already Backfiring Spectacularly

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Companies keep forcing AI features to do things that no one ever thought they needed, or indeed ever conceived of. In this unfortunate category, Amazon’s new feature for generating mini-podcast segments that shill for products on its shopping platform really takes the cake.  The bizarre feature was spotlighted by Katie Notopoulos at Business Insider, who recorded the Amazon AI’s pathetic attempt of portraying an engaging discussion on just about the dumbest thing for anyone to talk about at length: adult diaper rash cream. Imagine the most grating podcast advert in the world. Not the kind where a pre-made commercial plays, but when the hosts have been paid by a brand to talk about its product, leveraging their “authentic” personas to wax lyrical about an AI business platform or weird supplement. It’s kind of like that, but somehow vastly worse. “Today our AI-generated shopping show is exploring the Welmedix Rapid Relief Diaper Rash Cream,” the AI host begins. “Emma, …

An OpenAI-linked news outlet appears to be entirely AI-generated

An OpenAI-linked news outlet appears to be entirely AI-generated

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A new report from The Midas Project’s Model Republic publication has found that news site, The Wire by Acutus, relies almost entirely on AI-generated content. The publication has been operational since the end of 2025 with nearly 100 published articles across tech, energy, media, science, business, and healthcare. Stranger still, their About page describes their work as “collaborative journalism” led by an “editorial team,” but the site has no masthead and credits no editors or journalists in its publications. The official explanation for this anonymity is buried in their How It Works subhead: Our editorial team identifies timely topics and invites contributors with relevant, firsthand experience to share their perspective through structured conversations. Those perspectives are synthesized and edited into stories that reflect where contributors align, where they diverge, and what it all means — offering depth, balance, and clarity beyond the headline. But when journalist Tyler Johnston ran the site’s content through Pangram, an AI detection tool that boasts a 99.98% accuracy rating, he discovered just how widely AI was relied upon: “Of the …

New Browser Plugin Adds Typos to Your AI-Generated Emails to Make Them Look Real

New Browser Plugin Adds Typos to Your AI-Generated Emails to Make Them Look Real

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Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech The advent of large language model-based writing tools have given lazy or unconfident writers incredible new shortcuts that can spit out everything from glossy work emails to crispy school papers. The problem, of course, is that bosses and teachers around the world quickly got wise to the phenomenon — and as a result, any text that feels too tidy and polished has started to arouse suspicion. Now, in an effort to reintroduce some of the messiness of human writing — and hide our AI addiction — venture capitalist Ben Horwitz used Anthropic’s Claude AI to vibe code a browser plugin that does something that would have seemed preposterous just a few years ago: intentionally adding typos to emails. “I made the anti-Grammarly,” he bragged, referring to a popular, AI-powered spelling and grammar checker. “Mess up your emails with AI.” The cleverly named software, dubbed “Sinceerly,” promises to wreak some controlled havoc on overly coiffed emails, from undoing capitalization …

Three Years Ago Today, “Avengers” Director Joe Russo Predicted There Would Be a Fully AI-Generated Movie Within Two Years

Three Years Ago Today, “Avengers” Director Joe Russo Predicted There Would Be a Fully AI-Generated Movie Within Two Years

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Hollywood has been “cooked” for years now, according to AI fanatics, yet movies still remain largely human-made, and nothing even close to an AI-generated blockbuster has hit the silver screen. Even certain filmmakers have also been guilty of overselling the tech’s capabilities. Take “Avengers: Endgame” director Joe Russo, who enthused in an interview with Collider that there would be a fully AI movie within “two years” — exactly three years ago. Perhaps Russo was thinking of the direction his own filmography was headed in, which has felt increasingly AI-generated with each successive film. “The Gray Man” (2022) was a $200 million anonymous cobbling together of action set pieces reheated from better movies that not even Ryan Gosling could save. The Electric State (2025), which cost $320 million, could reasonably be accused of being written by ChatGPT, and its fake-movie aesthetic is a “make it EPIC!” AI-bowdlerization of the illustrated novel it was very loosely based on. Russo — …

Huge Chinese Netflix Competitor Converting to Host “Mainly AI-Generated Content”

Huge Chinese Netflix Competitor Converting to Host “Mainly AI-Generated Content”

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Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech It may be the beginning of the end for the global legions of C-drama fans. iQIYI, the Chinese streaming service known for its massive library of Asian films and TV shows, is anticipating that AI will create the majority of its content in just five years, Bloomberg reports. In an interview at iQIYI’s annual content showcase, CEO Gong Yu presented a sweeping AI vision so divorced from the company’s roots as a Netflix-style service that it has shades of Mark Zuckerberg’s aborted pivot to building an entire “Metaverse.” Per Bloomberg‘s paraphrasing of Yu’s remarks, the Beijing-based streamer plans to convert its website and video app into a “social media destination that hosts mainly AI-generated content” — content it hopes will be made using its own model. On Monday, the service launched its Nadou Pro suite, an all-in-one AI toolkit designed to handle every aspect of filmmaking, from screenwriting to storyboards and video generation. The company says Nadou Pro …

The Pope’s Warnings About AI Were AI-Generated, a Detection Tool Claims

The Pope’s Warnings About AI Were AI-Generated, a Detection Tool Claims

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On Monday, a brand-new Reddit account popped up on the widely read forum r/AmItheAsshole, where users have their personal disputes arbitrated by strangers. This particular user asked if they had crossed a line by “refusing to babysit my stepmother’s kids because I have my own job and responsibilities.” The post itself was succinct, straightforward, and grammatically clean, explaining a situation in which the person’s stepmother and father often expected them to provide childcare on little notice, eventually leading to an argument. “Now there’s tension at home, and I’m starting to wonder if I handled it the wrong way,” the redditor concluded. “I do understand that raising kids is stressful, but I also feel like I shouldn’t be obligated to take on that responsibility when it’s not my role.” The responses to this individual were largely supportive: The kids were not theirs to look after, many people replied, and moving out of the house would be the best course of action. But according to AI detection software developed by Pangram Labs—which claims an accuracy rate of …

This Scammer Used an AI-Generated MAGA Girl to Grift ‘Super Dumb’ Men

This Scammer Used an AI-Generated MAGA Girl to Grift ‘Super Dumb’ Men

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Like many medical school students, Sam was broke. The 22-year-old aspiring orthopedic surgeon from northern India got some money from his parents, but he says he spent most of it subsidizing his licensing exams, and he’s still saving up to hopefully emigrate to the US after graduation. So he started searching for ways to make additional money online. Sam, who requested a pseudonym to avoid jeopardizing his medical career and immigration status, tried a few things, with varying degrees of legitimacy and success. He made YouTube shorts and sold study notes to other med students. It wasn’t until he started scrolling through his Instagram feed that he landed on an idea: Why not make an AI-generated girl using Google Gemini’s Nano Banana Pro and sell bikini photos of her online? But when Sam started posting generic photos of a beautiful, scantily clad woman on Instagram, he was dismayed to find that none of the content was hitting. He turned to Gemini for advice. “If you create a generic ‘hot girl,’ you’re competing with a million …

Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content, and More Library News

Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content, and More Library News

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Katie’s parents never told her “no” when she asked for a book, which was the start of most of her problems. She has an MLIS from the University of Illinois and works full time as a Circulation & Reference Manager in Illinois. She has a deep-rooted love of all things disturbing, twisted, and terrifying and takes enormous pleasure in creeping out her coworkers. When she’s not at work, she’s at home watching the Cubs with her cats and her cardigan collection. Other hobbies include scrapbooking, introducing more readers to the Church of Tana French, and convincing her husband that she can, in fact, fit more books onto her shelves. Twitter: @kt_librarylady View All posts by Katie McLain Horner Source link