Media & culture
What we watch, read and believe in the age of generated content — and who gets paid for it.
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4 min readMixedAnthropic Safety Staff Say AI Could Kill Everyone, and They're Saying It in PublicA researcher quit Anthropic over "gambling with our lives," and two current colleagues publicly agreed on X that a future superintelligent AI could kill everyone within a decade.3 min readMixedSeattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI, Microsoft over AI use of their articlesTwo regional U.S. newspapers say ChatGPT, Copilot and Bing used their journalism, including subscriber-only stories, without payment or permission.4 min readMixedVoice actors split over AI clones as freelance work dries upStars are licensing their voices for millions while non-union freelancers say cheap AI clones are wiping out the small gigs that used to pay their bills.3 min readMixedSeattle Times and Newsday Sue OpenAI, Microsoft Over Use of Their JournalismTwo more news organizations say ChatGPT and Copilot were trained on their reporting without permission or payment, joining a growing wave of publisher lawsuits.3 min readMixedSony Music and Warner Chappell Sue Anthropic Over Song Lyrics in AI Training35 music publishers say Anthropic pirated millions of songs and books to train Claude, seeking damages that could reach billions of dollars.3 min readMixedMusic industry builds a system to flag which songs are AI-madeLuminate, the data engine behind Billboard's charts, will start tagging AI-generated songs and artists — but the labels aren't visible to listeners yet.3 min readMixedAustralia bans fully AI-made songs from its official music chartsStarting this week, tracks on Australia's ARIA charts must be "substantially human made," pushing wholly AI-generated music out of contention.4 min readMixedTwitch now lets you opt out of AI training — but you're opted in by defaultAmazon has used Twitch streams, chats and clips to train its generative AI for years; a new toggle can stop future use, but it won't undo the past.4 min readConcerningGoogle pulls AI image tool from Google Earth just one day after launchUsers quickly showed the new feature could fabricate convincing fake satellite imagery, like refugees at the border or bomb damage near a hospital.