Pivot to AI [Unofficial]Seedance’s ‘generated’ AI Cruise-Pitt demo was a green screen and face swap
AI sends tourists to Tasmanian hot springs that don’t exist
Art student protests other student’s AI ‘art’: he eats it
Grok generates bikini pics of children — UK, US oddly powerless
Channel 9 Australia’s AI TV promo and cartoon
AI image generators have just 12 generic templates
ResearchBuzz: FirehoseMy Modern Met: These Artists, Architects, and Directors Are the Most-Used Prompts for Generative AI Art. “Kapwing began by building a list of keywords spanning eight categories of prompt styles (such as artist names) and subjects (such as movie franchises). The company then recorded the number of AI video and image prompts containing these keywords on the Midjourney Discord.”
Pivot to AI [RSS]How OpenAI dodged Hollywood on Sora 2
[Full text: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/10/18/how-openai-dodged-hollywood-on-sora-2/]
The use case for AI video is to churn out clips of existing TV and movie characters for your amusement. [THR] Hollywood got wind of OpenAI’s Sora 2. Agencies called OpenAI to see what the deal was. [THR] OpenAI told them whatever they wanted to hear: repeatedly talking up an opt-in regime that would protect […]
Engadget: Microsoft debuts its first in-house AI image generator. “Microsoft is continuing to roll out in-house AI models, further decreasing its reliance on long-standing partnership with OpenAI. Today, the company introduced MAI-Image-1, its first internally-developed image-generating AI model.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/17/engadget-microsoft-debuts-its-first-in-house-ai-image-generator/
Lionsgate still can’t turn its movies into an AI video model
