When Napster emerged in the late 1990s, it made it easy for people to grab music files without compensating the content owners.The iPod and the iTunes music store […]
Patreon introduces a gifting feature and other creator tools
Patreon, the paid membership platform for creators, announced Tuesday the release of new features designed to help creators monetize their non-paying followers and tap into new revenue streams. […]
Overwatch 2 Fans Want Community-Made Mode Changes In Main Game
Every Overwatch 2 player has opinions about balance changes and reworks for their favorite heroes. Sometimes they’re impractical power fantasies to make their main more powerful, but other times, there are some real thoughtful ideas floating around forums and social media. Blizzard gave a handful of creators a chance…
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All the media companies that have licensing deals with OpenAI (so far)
OpenAI has been busy trying to curry favor (and fighting copyright infringement lawsuits) with media companies to use their content. Here’s a roundup of all the publications that have agreed to licensing deals with the ChatGPT maker.
Influencer shopping app LTK gets an automatic direct message tool
LTK (formerly LiketoKnow.it and RewardStyle), the influencer shopping app with 40 million monthly users, announced on Thursday the launch of a free direct message tool for creators to […]
Instagram teens are regularly recommended sexual and explicit videos, new report finds
A new Wall Street Journal investigations shows that Instagram’s recommendation algorithm disproportionately recommends explicit content to minors.
This Week in AI: Generative AI is spamming up academic journals
Hiya, folks, and welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. This week in AI, generative AI is beginning to spam up academic publishing — a discouraging new development on […]
Runway’s new video-generating AI, Gen-3, offers improved controls
The race to high-quality, AI-generated videos is heating up. On Monday, Runway, a company building generative AI tools geared toward film and image content creators, unveiled Gen-3 Alpha, its […]