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• TORONTO, Nov. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Fable received a Companies-to-Watch award as part of the 2023 Deloitte Technology Fast 50™ program.
• Through the increasing commitment enterprises have to digital accessibility, Fable is facilitating the integration of one of the most marginalized segments into the workforce.
• Fable CEO Alwar Pillai attributes the 855% revenue growth to the surging demand for scalable digital accessibility solutions.
• "Congratulations to this year's Companies-to-Watch winners," commented Anders McKenzie, partner and national leader for the Technology Fast 50 program at Deloitte Canada.

• The ongoing strikes by the Writers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild were sparked in part by artificial intelligence and its use in the movie industry.
• Both actors and writers fear that the major studios, including Amazon/MGM, Apple, Disney/ABC/Fox, NBCUniversal, Netflix, Paramount/CBS, Sony, Warner Bros. and HBO, will use generative AI to exploit them.
• Generative AI is a form of artificial intelligence that learns from text and images to automatically produce new written and visual works.
• So what specifically are the writers and actors afraid of?

The fear

• Writers fear that, at best, they will be hired to edit screenplays drafted by AI.
• They fear that their creative work will be swallowed whole into databases as the fodder for writing tools to sample.
• And they fear that their specific expertise will be pushed aside in favor of “prompt engineers,” or those skilled at working with AI tools.
• They fear that deepfake technologies will become the norm, and real, live actors won’t be needed at all.

On the road to the AI future

• The use of AI by a major studio sparked controversy due in part to the timing and fears about AI displacing people from their jobs.
• Further, series director and executive producer Ali Selim’s tone-deaf description of the use of AI only added to the sense that there is little concern at all about those fears.
• Finally, Volkswagen recently produced a commercial that features an AI reincarnation of Brazilian musician Elis Regina, who died in 1982.
• However, for others, the AI regeneration of someone who has died prompts worries about how one’s likeness might be used after death.

Keeping actors and writers in the credits

• If the dismissive attitude toward writers and actors held by many of the major studios continues, not only will there be little consideration of the needs of writers and actors, but technology development will lead the conversation.
• However, what if the tools were designed with the participation of informed actors and writers?
• Answering these questions could give actors and writers the assurances they seek and help the industry adapt in the age of AI.

• Forrester's report, The Digital Accessibility Platforms Landscape, Q2 2023 includes Fable in the overview of 12 digital accessibility platform vendors.
• TORONTO, July 20, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Fable, the digital accessibility testing and training platform, announced today that it has been named in Forrester's report, The Digital Accessibility Platforms Landscape, Q2 2023.
• The landscape is an overview of 12 digital accessibility platform vendors.
• "Implementing and maintaining successful digital accessibility programs can seem like a complex endeavor, but this landscape report provides product leaders thoughtful research to help them choose the best vendors for measuring accessibility and enhancing usability."

• This is the latest addition to the company's security certifications, having already achieved SOC 2 ® Type 2 certifications for both of their products, Fable Engage and Fable Upskill.
• "A mature security stature is important to our customers and our community alike," said Abid Virani, COO at Fable.
• Fable has been examined for its information security risks, designated a set of security controls to mitigate these identified risks, adopted a management process that reviews these controls, and finally had the audit conducted by an external party (the audit firm Schellman) that tested for conformity and issued the certification.
• "Fable connects a talented community of people with disabilities with the world's largest enterprises," said Alwar Pillai, CEO at Fable.