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Between Santa Claus, some adorable polar bears, some down-home goodness, and a whole lot of nostalgia for a time that we're not quite sure ever existed except in a Coca-Cola campaign, it's pretty much become its own side business Look no further than the collectors market that's out there for pretty much anything and everything[...]

Dale decided to retain her for his AI sci-fi thriller Subservience for Vertigo Releasing and XYZ Films, this time as the antagonist, Alice, a domestic AI who serves a struggling father (Michele Morrone) to help run the household along with his daughter (Matilda Firth) as his wife (Madeline Zima) is recovering from a medical episode[...]

We have several quotes from SAG-AFTRA and some of the studio heads below from today's announcement. Credit: SAG-AFTRA 80 Studios Sign SAG-AFTRA Agreement "Little Bat Games is proud to work with SAG-AFTRA in ensuring that top-tier voice talent is appropriately compensated and protected," the game company said in a statement "As a small studio working on a game[...]

Earlier this week, we reported on how ex-reality show host, multi-impeached ex-POTUS, and convicted felon Donald Trump (on behalf of his VP boy, JD Vance, we're assuming) accepted an endorsement from singer, songwriter, and global phenomenon Taylor Swift and her "Swifties." Except it wasn't actually Swift, and it appears to not be a whole lot of[...]

We already know that "Swifties for Kamala" is ready to roll on August 27th – but apparently, Trump decided he would do his part to make sure that Zoom call breaks the internet in half. How did Trump go about finding a new way to piss off a whole lot of music-loving fans? By accepting the[...]

Welcome back, folks! Once again, My Chemical Romance kicks things off with "Sing" (BCTV DD's unofficial "official" theme song) – welcome back to the BCTV Daily Dispatch! Here's where we look back at what we've been doing for the past 24 hours that you might've missed or want to check out again We're talking about everything[...]

In a deal approved by the union's National Executive Committee, SAG-AFTRA, and artificial intelligence (AI) startup Narrativ have entered into an agreement for audio voice replicas to be used in digital advertising The move comes as the union looks to work with AI companies to establish guardrails regarding how an actor's voice and image are[...]

From there, the press rises to reveal that from that destruction comes a new iPad Pro… with AI And then, Samsung tried to call them out – only for them to also get called out for promoting their own AI in the process At a time when AI continues to fuel the justified fears that[...]

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool covered Colin Kaepernick's announcement of Lumi, a new AI service that will generate comic books As expected, it has not gone down well. "Lumi's pitch is that most people aren't equally proficient at every aspect of making and selling a book and that AI can fill in those gaps For instance, if a writer[...]

Colin Kaepernick, former quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, has raised $4 million in investments for Lumi, a new AI-based platform for publishing comics and graphic novels Seven Seven Six led the seed round alongside Kapor Capital and Impellent Ventures, angel investors Mariam Naficy (founder of Minted), David Sze, Chamillionaire, and tech execs from Meta,[...]

The discussion regarding the use of AI in the art for comic books, and they work of Brian Haberlin who has been using it the most and for the longest, before anyone was even really aware it was a thing, has yet to kick off as it has with other folk But Haberlin has pushed[...]

Now, members are getting a look at further details of the tentative agreement with the release of the "Tentative 2024-2027 Basic Agreement Summary" – including the parameters in place regarding the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Some of the key points addressed include how a union member will be compensated for using their own AI[...]

When AMPTP (Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers) finally came to its senses last year and finalized deals with SAG-AFTRA (Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) and WGA (Writers Guild of America), some folks were under the impression that meant smooth sailing for television and film for the immediate future While[...]

Given what you intend to charge you use AI art? Pass. MixnmatchSafe: WoTC is bleeding money so hard that they must use AI shlop instead of paying actual artists, eh? CrimZon_Gaming: Huh… AI art What a shock that is. And plenty of others which have since been deleted Because, yes, you know where this is going, don't you?[...]

The Daily Lying In The Gutters remains a long-running run around the day before and possibly the day ahead You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ Francesco Mattina, withdrawn Francesco Mattina, withdrawn Brave[...]

It wasn't an uncommon claim at the time and he was cancelled a bit for it Marvel Comics also dropped using him, though DC and Dynamite didn't seem that bothered Well, this weekend, that went up a notch as the likes of Adi Granov and Scott Williams accused him of using AI in his recently[...]

It started with rumblings from folks who thought the Voice Mode on OpenAI's new ChatGPT model sounded a little too much like actress Scarlett Johansson From there, the topic got blown up by Saturday Night Live co-head writers and "Weekend Update" anchors Colin Jost & Michael Che during their infamous "Joke Swap" during the Season[...]

  Did Saturday Night Live co-head writers and "Weekend Update" anchors Colin Jost & Michael Che's "Joke Swap" get the attention of OpenAI? During the SNL season 49 finale this weekend, Jost and Che continued their tradition of writing jokes meant to make the other one look painfully bad – and feel even worse With each[...]

While the Apple CEO was thinking in tech terms, a lot of folks who use the very things that were destroyed saw the commercial as a cynical metaphor for efforts to "automate art" – devaluing the importance of the artist in that process. Screencaps: Apple; Samsung Well, Samsung clearly smelled blood in the water because the company[...]

Welcome back, folks! Once again, My Chemical Romance kicks things off with "Sing" (BCTV DD's unofficial "official" theme song) – welcome back to the BCTV Daily Dispatch! Here's where we look back at what we've been doing for the past 24 hours that you might've missed or want to check out again We're talking about everything[...]

But also with a cover that pretty much everyone looking at it suspects is AI generated Which has been criticised for stealing the work of actual artists to generate a mishmash purporting to be something new. Where Will The Animals Sleep? Songs For Kids & Other Living Things Comic book artists among many have made their feelings[...]

DC Comics' decision to pull and replace certain covers over AI content concerns continues to top traffic on Bleeding Cool yesterday Where you can still read all about comics, merch, TV shows, games, movies, and more The Daily Lying In The Gutters remains a long-running run around the day before and the day ahead[...]

DC Comics' decision to pull and replace certain covers over AI content concerns topped traffic on Bleeding Cool yesterday Where you can still read all about comics, merch, TV shows, games, movies, and more The Daily Lying In The Gutters remains a long-running run around the day before and the day ahead You can sign up[...]

As part of a previous article looking at concerns about the use of AI in recent comic books, the cover artist Jingxiong Guo, or Daxiong, was accused by some people on social media of doing such for recently announced Shazam, Wonder Woman and Power Girl covers. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border:[...]

They invited a new generation of animators to create music videos for any of the album's ten songs, with judges Nick Mason, Kyle Alba, Gerald Scarfe, Sarah Smith, Daisy Jacobs, Harry Pearce, Terry Gilliam, Alan Yentob, and Anton Corbijn. "Given that it was the 50th anniversary of the album, and with the band's history of working[...]

Sure, we had the not-so-surprising good news that Steven Moffat was returning to pen an episode (maybe more?), and let's not forget those trailers – proving that RTD definitely knows how to spend Disney's money Speaking of Disney… yeah, that whole thing where Disney+ is getting the prime return time over BBC viewers still isn't[...]

DC Comics' editorial struggles with whether or not DC Comics artists are using AI topped yesterday's traffic at Bleeding Cool, where you can still read all about comics, merch, TV shows, games, movies, and more The Daily Lying In The Gutters remains a long-running run around the day before and the day ahead You can sign[...]

DC Comics editorial struggles with whether or not DC Comics artists are using AI topped yesterday's traffic at Bleeding Cool, where you can still read all about comics, merch, TV shows, games, movies, and more The Daily Lying In The Gutters remains a long-running run around the day before and the day ahead You can sign[...]

Lots of people are against the use of AI in comic book artwork creation Some for diluting the role of artists, some for the work stealing using pirated versions of art from specific creators, and there are lawsuits against the main AI art-generating companies as a result But from a corporate company approach, there is[...]

Close to three weeks after the SAG-AFTRA National Board approved a tentative agreement on a three-year contract for television and feature film animation with the AMPTP, members of the union voted overwhelmingly to ratify the 2023 Television Animation Agreement and the 2023 Basic Cable Animation Agreement (approved by a vote of 95.52% to 4.48%). "The foundation of this[...]