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In a policy reversal from his last administration,?President-elect Donald Trump campaigned?this time around to cancel the #TikTok ban and ensure the app remains consistently available.?His former advisor Kellyanne Conway?remains a fan of the app, and told?The Washington Post?last week that Trump both “appreciates the breadth and reach of TikTok” and feels that “Democrats are the party of bans.” He’s also praised TikTok as a key competitor to #Meta’s social media platform #Facebook, which Trump famously considers an “enemy of the people.” But just how did we get here, with the government getting ready to enforce a ban on a popular service that Americans clearly like and want to keep around? (Research?published earlier this year by Pew Research Center suggests that around one-third of Americans have personally used the app, a 12% increase since 2021.) To understand the TikTok ban, we have to go all the way back to the year 2020. ?? https://lnkd.in/gpJRUGxG

What ways can a #creator use their platform to encourage people to #vote? ??? Whether it's methods you've tried as a creator yourself or your ideas for other creators, let us know in the comments! ?? We’re curious about it all. ??

Performers guild #SAGAFTRA and AI voice model company #Ethovox have come to an agreement, aiming to protect voice actors in the age of #AI. As explained by the guild in a?blog?post on its website, Ethovox is building a “foundational AI model” to produce digital voice replicas. For a model like this to operate, it needs a basis of voice data to work with. However,?according to SAG-AFTRA, the Ethovox model is not user-facing, and the voices included and generated with this model won’t be identifiable. According to SAG-AFTRA, this collaboration “leads the field” in terms of performer compensation. Unlike other AI companies, Ethovox will pay #creators both via session fees and ongoing royalties. How do we feel about this? ?? Comment your thoughts and learn more at the link below. ?? https://lnkd.in/gusyczbc

On Monday, Oct. 28, Universal Music Group?announced?that it has partnered with the so-called “ethical AI music company” Klay Vision. The goal? To build an #AI model — which Klay calls the Large Music Model — that aligns with the music industry’s standards on creativity and #copyright. ?? The LA-based company has some big names from the #music and #tech fields on their payroll, including music producer Ary Attie, former #Sony Music executive Thomas Hesse, and former #Google Deepmind developer Bj?rn Winckler. Attie, in particular, has high hopes for Klay, as he?predicted?that “the next Beatles will play with Klay.” ?? For #UniversalMusicGroup, this is a rapid change of tune. So why did #UMG change its mind about AI music? Learn more at the link below, and let us know what you think. ?? https://lnkd.in/gFXMU9mB

In case you missed the news last week, Glassdoor introduced a suite of new features including a Worklife Pros program. We partnered with influential voices across different verticals in fashion (Rebecca Minkoff), tech (Ray Fu), and mental health (Gloria Chan Packer) to deliver tailored rich content to our community. You can read more about the launch in this Passionfruit article!

The presidential #election in the US is now mere weeks away. As?#AI-generated deepfakes?become increasingly realistic, it’s very likely that we’ll be faced with a lot more AI-generated misinformation. A new public service announcement about celebrity #deepfakes aims to tackle that. ?? RepresentUs organized the campaign, which debuted on Oct. 22. It featured the likenesses of numerous celebrities like Rosario Dawson, Jonathan Scott, Laura Dern, Michael Douglas, and Amy Schumer but only some of them are real.?The clip?features the stars explaining some of the most common deepfakes you will likely encounter.?This includes misinformation like voting time, documentation, and location. ?? Watch the clip, read what one of the campaign organizers had to say about creating the video, and more at the link below. ?? https://lnkd.in/gfADYxPq

Performers guild SAG-AFTRA has called for its members to stop working on #LeagueofLegends. The union is claiming that its producer, Formosa Interactive, tried to bypass a strike currently taking place over a different video game produced by Formosa. The union didn’t specify which video game title this was. ?? Formosa Interactive specifically is the arm of Formosa Group that provides League of Legends’ voiceover work. The union claims that Formosa “tried to subvert” its ongoing strike. Allegedly, the publisher did this by attempting to hire non-union performers through a shell company. ?? Consequently, #SAGAFTRA filed an unfair labor practice charge against Formosa. The union did this via the National Labor Relations Board, claiming that Formosa is violating labor laws. Learn more about the union statement and the Formosa Group’s rebuttal ???? https://lnkd.in/gBMH8xY2

People say #GenZ spends too much time on their phones, but do they actually enjoy it? According to a new #socialmedia survey by psychologist Jonathan Haidt, they might not.??? Haidt and his research team, The Harris Poll,?collated?the thoughts of 1,006 18-27-year-olds regarding social media. ? While over 60%?reported?using social media for four or more hours a day, approximately half of them said they wished platforms like #X (50%) and #TikTok (47%) didn’t exist. Meanwhile, 43% of users had similar feelings about #Snapchat, while 37% and 34%, respectively,?said?that they felt that way about #Facebook and #Instagram. By contrast, the smartphone itself and platforms like #Netflix and #YouTube had the lowest regret rates at 21%, 17%, and 15%, respectively. In a?New York Times op-ed, Haidt argued that this data suggests that “if smartphones merely let people text each other, watch movies and search for helpful information or interesting videos (without personalized recommendation algorithms intended to hook users), there would be far less regret and resentment.” ?? https://lnkd.in/dN6fHGGd

As a #creator, you want to protect your creations! ?? However, in the ever-evolving?creator economy, it might feel overwhelming to understand the nuances regarding legal protections for your work. Maybe you don’t know the differences between #trademark vs #copyright, let alone how to file for one.??? ?? Whether creating visual art or a unique service, here are the basics of trademarks and copyrights.?? https://lnkd.in/gxTnDsvg

On August 13, a diverse group of 100 creators, with a combined audience reach of over 110 million people, and creator economy professionals attended the first-ever White House Creator Economy Conference. The six-hour event took place in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House. It featured five discussion panels and one-on-one conversations. Topics for the day focused on mental health, artificial intelligence (“AI”), fair and equitable pay, and long term financial stability for creators. Franklin Graves, an adjunct law professor and researcher at Emerson College and New England Law, focused on the intersections of law, policy, and the creator economy shares his personal experience at the conference.???