Variety Monday August 31, 2026
The Motion Picture Association and ByteDance have developed a framework to protect the film and TV industries’ intellectual property across ByteDance’s suite of AI generative products, including the AI video and image generators Seedance and Seedream. The newly announced deal comes months after the MPA sent ByteDance a cease-and-desist letter and denounced the company following the release of Seedance 2.0, which saw creators produce riffs on actors including Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Monday August 31, 2026
AI may offer photographers ways for make their work more efficient, but it also seems to be causing headaches within the wedding industry. Photographer and YouTuber John Branch of John Branch IV
Photography explains in a new video that couples have begun complaining that their photographers used AI to create images of their wedding days. Confusion about artificial intelligence and how it can
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The New York Times Friday August 28, 2026
The digital sewage heap has sprawled across tech platforms, cheapening meaningful content and polluting the information ecosystem, as chatbots and video generators continue to advance. And now, notes The New York Times, researchers from YouTube’s parent company, Google, have described how a video service wiped 130,000 channels of low-quality content off its platform over six months. In October, Pinterest updated its system to allow users to limit how many A.I.-generated posts they see. TikTok said it was testing a feature in the United States that lets people dial up or down the amount of visible A.I. content. Read the full Story >>
Nebraskaland Friday August 28, 2026
Photographer Michael Forsberg vividly remembers the first day he went to work for Nebraskaland magazine in 1993. “I was a newlywed and had just landed a position as a staff photographer and writer for a magazine I had loved since I was a kid in Lincoln. My heart was full and my head was spinning,” he writes as part of a celebration of the publication’s 100th anniversary. Accompanying the article are Forsberg’s images of the Nebraska Sandhills, whooping cranes, and other marvelous Great Plains sights.
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