#wtfnow — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #wtfnow, aggregated by home.social.
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3️⃣ The Australia Government is proposing a huge privacy reform package including a world-first approach.
4️⃣ Meta ends its child safety case with a significant settlement that brings with it a raft of new teen restrictions and a possible financial settlement of $18 billion.
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#WTFnow #privacy #SocialMedia #ChildSafety #Meta #Facebook #Instagram
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⁉️ Here’s WTF happened this week:
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1️⃣ Powerhouse Museum's CEO has stood down just 10 weeks before Powerhouse Paramatta opens.
2️⃣ Three pieces on AI and trust demonstrate that backlash is not a rejection of the technology but a call for ethical, transparent and discerning deployment.
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3️⃣ The state and federal governments want data centre development but disagree on national standards as documents reveal Anthropic was eyeing massive investment in NSW.
*️⃣ And the US Federal Trade Commission is consulting on a draft enforcement policy statement on personalised pricing.
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1️⃣ AI-generated tracks are not eligible for the ARIA Charts or the ARIA Awards from next week.
2️⃣ TikTok settled their child privacy case for $400 million as testimony in the Meta child safety case claims executives ignored harms.
#WTFnow #AI #AIandMusic #ARIA #ARIAcharts #ARIAawards #SocialMedia #ChildSafety #OnlineSafety #TikTok #ByteDance #Meta #Facebook #Instagram
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3️⃣ Spotify has added playlist annotations so playlist makers can add context to track in their playlists and a new ‘AI persona’ badge to make AI music more transparent.
*️⃣ Plus there are calls for a settlement between Paramount and the States pursuing an antitrust case against the Paramount–Warner Bros. merger.
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#WTFnow #Spotify #PlaylistNotes #AIpersona #Paramount #WarnerBros
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1️⃣ Screen Australia has released Screen Currency 2026, 5 significant reports looking at the audiences, the industry and the economy of Australia’s screen and games industry.
2️⃣ OpenAI has launched a 'for Teens' offering for ChatGPT with stronger built-in safety protections and an educational focus.
#WTFnow #Screen #VideoGames #ScreenAustralia #ArtsResearch #AI #ChatGPT #OpenAI #ChildSafety #OnlineSafety
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3️⃣ California Attorney-General Rob Bonta has published his own op-ed about why 12 states are challenging the Paramount–Warner Bros. acquisition proposal.
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1️⃣ An Australian’s AI agent exploited an online booking software bypass scheduling restrictions and remove someone from a waitlist to move its owner up the list.
2️⃣ Cloudflare predicts that that non-human internet traffic could scale to 1,000 times that of human activity within five years. And they released an open-source vibe coding platform.
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⁉️ Here’s WTF happened this week:
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1️⃣ NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang used his first post on X to share an open letter calling for the protection of open source AI, especially in relation to cyber security.
2️⃣ Cory Doctorow shares AI predictions with Australia while Associate Professor Guy Morrow discussed copyright, Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) and AI.
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3️⃣ The Australian Government has announced a number of AI priority initiatives.
Also there is increasing opposition to the Paramount–Warner Bros. proposed merger. Anthropic has approached the ABC to train AI on the radio and TV archive. And Indonesia is proposing significant changes to the country’s copyright law.
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1️⃣ Wikimedia Australia and Terri Janke and Company have released an Indigenous Content Guide for Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia platforms.
2️⃣ Anthropic’s $1.5 billion copyright settlement has been approved.
#WTFnow #WikimediaAustralia #CultureStrong #Wikipedia #AI #copyright
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3️⃣ The unfair dismissal case between Jayson Gillham and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO) came to an end leaving a friction point between artistic freedom and arts organisations’ bottom lines.
➡️ Read the full round-up online: https://elliottbledsoe.wtf/wtf-now-43/
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⁉️ Here’s WTF happened this week:
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1️⃣ Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has drawn a line under the ‘will they won't they’ speculation a text and data mining exception might still happen. He also outlined Australia’s response to AI.
2️⃣ AI labels for music and anti-AI scraping initiatives were announced this week.
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3️⃣ A UK court dismissed a class action fronted by Blur drummer Dave Rowntree about music royalties but seems to just accept data gaps as a reality for collecting societies.
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1️⃣ Anna Funder and Esther Anatolitis join the choir against a text and data mining copyright exception but critical copyright realities remain.
2️⃣ COMMUNIA and other civil society organisations are are concerned the Digital Omnibus could kill open data in Europe.
#WTFnow #AI #copyright #OpenData #DigitalOmnibus #CreativeCommons
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And Backrooms is going back to cinemas, Netflix is going all in on AI to generate personalised homepages and the ACCC is taking action against Amazon over Prime Video ads.
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#WTFnow #films #cinema #Backrooms #A24 #Netflix #Amazon #PrimeVideo
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3️⃣ Rising production costs and cost-of-living pressures means it’s curtains for multiple Australian musicals while other productions look to KeyComp to cut their orchestra headcount.
There are also updates on the US social media addiction cases, the AI-powered cyber security threats and Paramount’s bid to buy Warner Bros.
➡️ Read the full round-up online: http://elliottbledsoe.wtf/wtf-now-41/
#WTFnow #AI #copyright #CateBlanchett #HumanContentRegistry #PersonalityRights
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1️⃣ The copyright and AI debate continues to escalate with an open letter declaring ‘Australia's creators are not a tech subsidy.’
2️⃣ Cate Blanchett’s nonprofit has released the Human Consent Registry and traffic light technical tools to signal if AI can legally use someone’s likeness.
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#WTFnow #AI #copyright #CateBlanchett #HumanContentRegistry #PersonalityRights
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3️⃣ The arts may think they aren’t a target for cyber attacks but numerous incidents over the last five years say otherwise. How will the arts and GLAM respond to the Five Eyes warning?
4️⃣ The EU has signed the ‘Europe for Culture, Culture for Europe’ joint declaration committing to place ‘culture at the heart of the European project’.
5️⃣ Lachlan Murdoch’s Fox Corporation will acquire set-top box maker Roku.
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1️⃣ Senator Pocock has accused the government of secretly considering a text and data (TDM) mining exception despite multiple statements from government saying a TDM exception is not on the table.
2️⃣ The Five Eyes cyber security agencies have made a joint warning that most businesses and organisations are not ready for a wave of AI-accelerated cyber risks.
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Also, recent horror movie successes bringing stories from YouTube to cinemas bypassed the traditional Hollywood production pipeline.
And there are updates on the Paramount–Warner Bros. merger, the removal of Trump’s name from the Kennedy Centre and the Californian social media addiction case.
➡️ Read the full round-up online: http://elliottbledsoe.wtf/wtf-now-39/
#WTFnow #HorrorMovies #Backrooms #Obsession #Paramount #WarnerBros #KennedyCentre #SocialMedia #SocialMediaAddiction
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AI regulation and infrastructure battlegrounds continue be drawn up with the possible shift of the US Register of Copyrights to a presidential appointment and the Australian Assistant Minister for Digital Economy warning Australia needs to not make the same mistake with data centres it did with gas.
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Midyear already?! Every week so far I have published a round-up of WTF is happening now in AI, the arts, technology, marketing, copyright and open knowledge. If you want to know WTF is up with those topics too then subscribe. 😺
⁉️ WTF now?! blog: https://elliottbledsoe.wtf/blog/wtf-now/
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New Zealand is pursuing copyright changes to meet free trade agreement obligations and other reform ideas. The Paramount–Warner Bros. merger is facing more challenges. Also Apple has attributed new child safety features to Australia's social media age ban (well, partly!) and Screen Queensland has paused this year’s Brisbane International Film Festival.
https://elliottbledsoe.wtf/wtf-now-38/
#WTFnow #copyright #CopyrightReform #Paramount #WarnerBros #MediaMergers #Apple #ChildSafety #ScreenQueensland
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Here's WTF happened this week:
Anthropic and OpenAI have both taken steps towards IPOs. Canada's AI for All strategy and Australia's AI regulatory response have found themselves under pressure. Also, the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC) issued The Paris Commitment to human creativity.
https://elliottbledsoe.wtf/wtf-now-38/
#WTFnow #AI #Anthropic #OpenAI #AIRegulation #AISafety #TheParisCommitment