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This episode gives a comprehensive overview of host Peter Csathy's deep dive article with the same title (link below).   The discussion uses The New York Times' recent "cease and desist" demand and News Corp's new lawsuit against generative AI search tool Perplexity to discuss the concept of RAG processing - and why it matters in the context of GenAI copyright, infringemen...

Excellent discussion of host Peter Csathy's deep dive article titled, "Are Tech's Generative AI 'Fair Use' Dominoes Starting to Fall?"  Based on Csathy's article (simply dropped into NotebookLM), Csathy's AI co-hosts discuss: (1) the ongoing debate about whether AI training on copyrighted works (without consent/compensation) is "fair use"; (2) how...

In this episode, Peter Csathy hands over the podcast to his Google NotebookLM "synthetic" AI-generated co-hosts to discuss his latest article, "Newsom's Hollywood/Silicon Valley Balancing Act: California's 17 New GenAI Laws May Become the Nation's De Facto Standards." The discussion is both surprisingly smart and surprisingly engaging. Csathy listened (and approv...

In this part 3 of his Google NotebookLM podcast series, host Peter Csathy enables his "synthetic" AI-generated guest hosts to discuss "the great AI copyright debate: fair use, or not?" Csathy generated this episode by simply uploading the text of his recent article on the subject. The results are fascinating. The conversation smart. But very different than Csathy's origina...

In this Part 2 to host Peter Csathy's Google NotebookLM generated podcast series, NotebookLM's "synthetic" AI-generated co-hosts discuss themselves - i.e., what their AI-generated personas mean for creativity, art and society. The result is fascinating. So good - the convers-AI-tion, so smart. It's scary. Csathy generated the episode simply by pasting the link to his lates...

Google just launched NotebookLM, an amazing new content generating AI wunder-app that, in Google’s words, is designed to be “your personalized AI research assistant.” NotebookLM can do many things, but its audio podcast generating feature is what really stands out.  In this episode, rather than host Peter Csathy telling you about it, he let's the app speak for itself. Literally. Peter generat...

This week's episode features Creative Media's Peter Csathy participating in Streaming Media's recent "Great AI Debate" hosted and moderated by expert and media cartographer Evan Shapiro - and also featuring AI experts and entrepreneurs H. Schuster of HUSSLUP and Chris Giliberti of Avail.  The debate's central question was a simple one -- are we (or are we not) in an A...

Creative Media's Peter Csathy interviews CEO Ben Gottdiener, CEO of Narrativ - the generative AI company that enables users to create digital voice replicas (what some call "digital clones"). Narrativ's mission is to be the "marketplace for advertisers to license talent audio AI likenesses." And the big news is that the company just entered into a major agreement with...

Peter interviews Shara Senderoff, Founder and CEO of Jen Music AI. The two discuss how Jen Music's "ethically sourced" music ethos is fundamentally different than the ethos of Silicon Valley-backed generative AI music services Suno and Udio. Neither of those companies chose to seek consent from -- or give compensation to -- the artists, musicians and teams that created the music on...

This episode features host Peter Csathy's recent roundtable discussion from Digital Hollywood's "AI Summer Summit" about the state and status of copyright law and litigation in the world of generative AI (and whether unlicensed scraping is infringement), the current status of the key cases, and how media companies and publishers should decide to litigate -- or to license their...

This week's episode features host Peter Csathy's exclusive roundtable discussion with many of the leading players, experts and voices in the world of generative AI and video (including Microsoft CTO Andy Beach). The roundtable for Digital Hollywood's "AI Summer Summit" took place last week and focused on the state (and sophistication) of generative AI video today — and whe...

In this week's episode, Creative Media's Peter Csathy first discusses 25 significant ways that the media and entertainment industry is already using generative AI right now -- but doing it "quietly" so that it doesn't rattle legal sabers or attract too much creative community blowback. It's kind of like "25 Things You Always Wanted to Know About Generative AI, Bu...

In this special bonus episode, Creative Media's Peter Csathy tackles the fundamental issue now facing Big Tech and Big Media -- whether generative AI "training" on unlicensed copyrighted works is infringing (or is, instead, defensible fair use)? Peter gives a concise, non-legalese overview of the business and legal issues involved in the leading cases -- including The New York Times...

In this week's episode, Creative Media's Peter Csathy first discusses the concept -- promoted by Black Eyed Peas auteur will.i.am -- of the new generative AI era of artists as being "seeders." Gone are the days of "traditional artists" in will.i.am's view, and he uses himself as an example of what he has in mind. Peter discusses both the significant merits of wil...

Recently, Toys ‘R’ Us premiered a new 66-second ad at Cannes Lion in the hopes of signaling to  the world, “we’re back!” The company was the first significant brand to produce a major spot using Sora. Reviews of the ad itself were decidedly mixed , but the ad’s real impact may have been in the halls of enterprising plaintiff’s law firms. In this episode, Peter flags a potential expansive new front...

Welcome to episode 1 of "the brAIn" - the podcast doppelganger to my newsletter of the same name that you can find at themediabrain.substack.com . Many of you would rather listen than read, so this is for you! Special thanks to DEVO's Mark Mothersbaugh for creating the fantastic original theme music. It's the perfect match of man and machine. For this inaugural podcast episode,...