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New York Times Bars AI Companies From Using Its Content for Algorithm Training
The New York Times is making it clear that the AI industry won’t be given free rein to pilfer the newspaper’s content to train algorithms. In a recent change to its Terms of Service policy, the Times has explicitly forbidden the use of its vast media archives for the purposes of training “any software program,…
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Sony Is Making A Movie Out Of Scott Kelly’s Year In Space
As is by now traditional, a studio has bought the rights to a book that hasn’t even come out yet. In this case, it’s Sony Pictures making a movie out of astronaut Scott Kelly’s Endurance: My Year in Space and Our Journey to Mars.
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HBO’s Sesame Street Sounds Like A Hipster Hell
Last year, a deal was announced that brought the free-to-air legend Sesame Street to the premium cable network HBO in the US. And now, thanks to The New York Times, we know a bunch of details about the revamped show. How you feel is going to depend a lot on how you feel about change.…
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AP Takes Hard Line Stance In Firing Pulitzer Winner For Doctored Photo
We all know the ethical haze around digital photo editing. Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Narciso Contreras ran face first into it when he was being fired by the Associated Press for photoshopping an image he took during the Syrian conflict in 2012.