Media and publishing highlights and dogfights, in the foggy world of content and tech.
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Bilibili, a hip fun YouTube rival from China, is ramping up efforts to take on YouTube. If it “does a TikTok”, YouTube will have to up its game to keep creators from following the money.
Book publishers are tying themselves in knots over alleged uses of AI in works. But what happens if the detectors are wrong, or, perhaps worse, the AI stuff is better?
Attempts to enforce the provenance and use of AI-generated content may inadvertently entrench the most successful of those who stole it in the first place.
Western AI's Big Three are making the same mistakes Detroit's Big Three made in the 1970s. Chinese open-weight models are cheaper, getting better, and hard to beat. Where does that leave us users?
When AI bots turn hard-earned trust into fiction, publishers and media brands are the ones which face the fall out.
Harry Clarkson-Bennett writes that the declining media interest of younger audiences is down to changed habits rather than the effect of AI. A new Emerging Audience Index reveals all.
Two events this week could have long term consequences for how the future of AI and content thievery plays out. As well as being very entertaining to watch unfold.
A global sporting event brings home the relevance of good content only people can create.
A clumsy attempt to frame the argument around originality indicates the blunt aims behind more honeyed words.
A court ruling in Germany has held Google liable for erroneous answers provided by AI Overviews - is this a precedent that changes the game?
Media leaders from a wide background gathered behind closed doors in London to talk about fightbacks against the worst of tech and AI. Contrary to what you may think, the mood wasn't doom and gloom.
Action to prevent Tech Takeover 2.0 sees media and publishing companies take the fighting path against AI and no-click searches.
