In Graphic Detail: Inside the growing rift between AI efficiency and audience trust

The debate over AI slop has had a dizzying run over the last week or so. 

Disney kicked things off by announcing that Disney+ subscribers will soon be able to spin up their own content using its characters. A former video game studio head chimed in to note that younger audiences are already using this stuff. And TikTok added more fuel by confirming its testing controls that lets users adjust the amount of AI-generated material in their feeds — an update that landed alongside the revelation that more than 1.3 billion videos on the platform now carry an AI label. 

All of it points to an entertainment pipeline being retooled in real time, where the separation between craft and machine output grows a little more porous each week.

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Amazon quietly blocks more of OpenAI’s ChatGPT web crawlers from accessing its site

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When economist Tyler Cowen sat down with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman for a fireside chat during a four-day conference in Berkeley, California last month, the conversation eventually turned to the ChatGPT maker’s buzzy new deal with America’s biggest retailer: With OpenAI now letting Walmart shoppers buy products directly inside ChatGPT, would Amazon ever agree to a similar deal?

“Do you think Amazon will fold and join that, or are they going to fight back and try to do their own thing?” Cowen asked.

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