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News.com.au
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- News.com.au
NEWS OF THE WEEK: Lily Allen likens social media ban to ‘withdrawing from drugs'
Speaking on the Miss Me? podcast, The Smile hitmaker shared, "I'm nearly two weeks into a complete social media ban. The beginning of last week, I was feeling incredibly low, like lower than I've felt in months. It was extremely heavy.' "And then I realised maybe this is because I'm not filling the gaps with doom scrolling and I've suddenly got this time for like reflection, you know what I mean?" She continued: "I don't have that much to do here in New York during the day,…
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
NEWS OF THE WEEK: Lily Allen likens social media ban to 'withdrawing from drugs'
Speaking on the Miss Me? podcast, The Smile hitmaker shared, "I'm nearly two weeks into a complete social media ban. The beginning of last week, I was feeling incredibly low, like lower than I've felt in months. It was extremely heavy.' "And then I realised maybe this is because I'm not filling the gaps with doom scrolling and I've suddenly got this time for like reflection, you know what I mean?" She continued: "I don't have that much to do here in New York during the day,…
Perth Now
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Radiohead singer Thom Yorke says AI does nothing more than steal from human artistic expression
Radiohead's Thom Yorke says artificial intelligence does nothing more than "steal" from original human artistic work. The 56-year-old songwriter – who has just released his first full-length electronic album 'Tall Tales', a collaboration with Mark Pritchard – is against the onslaught of AI in the music business and other creative industries. Thom insists the technology is stealing musicians' ideas with no financial reimbursement. Speaking to Electronic Sound magazine, Thom said: 'As far as I can tell in music and art and all creative industries, Al is so far only able to 'create' variations on genuine human artistic expression, and those are obvious. Is Al capable of genuine original creative thought? I have yet to see that. It analyses and steals and builds iterations without acknowledging the original human work it analysed. It creates pallid facsimiles, which is useful in the same way auto-accompaniment is useful, or a screensaver of a beautiful natural landscape in a billionaire's bunker is. "But the economic structure is morally wrong ... the human work used by AI to fake its creativity is not being acknowledged. Writers are not paid. It's a weird kind of wanky, tech-bro nightmare future, and it seems this is what the tech industry does best. A devaluing of the rest of humanity, other than themselves, hidden behind tech. In the US right now, we are witnessing this spilling over into politics. 'We are. in modern parlance. 'creatives. which is a term I find deeply offensive because it arrived around the time that art morphed into 'content' for devices.' Yorke - who also fronts The Smile - was one of 10,500 signatories, which also included Abba's Björn Ulvaeus, actress Julianne Moore, The Cure's Robert Smith and Rosario Dawson, from the creative industries warning artificial intelligence companies that unlicensed use of their work is a 'major, unjust threat' to artists' livelihoods. The statement read: "The unlicensed use of creative works for training generative AI is a major, unjust threat to the livelihoods of the people behind those works, and must not be permitted." The organiser of the statement was the British composer and former AI executive Ed Newton-Rex, who resigned from his role as head of audio at tech firm Stability AI last year due to a disagreement with the higher-ups that that taking copyrighted content to train AI models without a licence constitutes 'fair use', a term meaning permission from the copyright owner is not needed."
News.com.au
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- News.com.au
Lily Allen likens social media ban to ‘withdrawing from drugs'
Speaking on the Miss Me? podcast, The Smile hitmaker shared, "I'm nearly two weeks into a complete social media ban. The beginning of last week, I was feeling incredibly low, like lower than I've felt in months. It was extremely heavy.' "And then I realised maybe this is because I'm not filling the gaps with doom scrolling and I've suddenly got this time for like reflection, you know what I mean?" She continued: "I don't have that much to do here in New York during the day,…
Middle East Eye
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Middle East Eye
BDS says UK performances of Israeli-British duo cancelled following pressure
Israeli singer Dudu Tassa and Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood's performances in the UK next month have been cancelled following pressure from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. "Palestinians welcome the cancellation of Jonny Greenwood and Dudu Tassa's concert, which was due to take place in Bristol, UK on the 23rd June and would have whitewashed Israel's genocide against 2.3m Palestinians in Gaza and underlying settler-colonial apartheid regime," the BDS movement said in a post on X on Friday. The movement said Jonny Greenwood, guitarist with Radiohead and The Smile, had performed in Tel Aviv along with Dudu Tassa in May 2024 on a night that "genocidal Israeli forces massacred displaced Palestinians in their tents in Rafah, burning them alive, just a short drive away". The movement also noted that Tassa has repeatedly performed for Israeli soldiers, "willingly acting as a cultural ambassador for apartheid Israel," and called on the Hackney Church to cancel its scheduled 25th June concert with the pair.
