Authorship

Somms.ai Brings AI Attribution for Artists and Original Works, Custom GenAI Models to the Enterprise Music Industry

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Wednesday, October 11, 2023

The platform enables labels, distributors, artists, and rights holders to craft their own custom AI Music Models and attribute AI-generated music to their training data sources, enabling them to assert justifiable ownership, promote fair royalty payouts, and ethically forge new revenue streams.

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  • The platform enables labels, distributors, artists, and rights holders to craft their own custom AI Music Models and attribute AI-generated music to their training data sources, enabling them to assert justifiable ownership, promote fair royalty payouts, and ethically forge new revenue streams.
  • Founded by music industry insiders from Beatport, Napster, MTV, and Native Instruments, Somms.ai was developed with the core mission of helping artists and rights owners to take advantage of AI technology while also protecting their art.
  • “Training AI models on other people's material without consent is unethical and fundamentally detrimental to the industry,” said Sean Power, CEO of Somms.ai.
  • “We have invented the equivalent of PRO algorithms for measuring public performance for the enterprise music industry.

AI can replicate human creativity in two key ways – but falls apart when asked to produce something truly new

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Thursday, June 1, 2023

Is computational creativity possible? The recent hype around generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT, Midjourney, Dall-E and many others, raises new questions about whether creativity is a uniquely human skill. Some recent and remarkable milestones of generative AI foster this question:Yet, AI image generator Dall-E, for example, can produce novel output on any theme you wish within seconds.

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Is computational creativity possible? The recent hype around generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT, Midjourney, Dall-E and many others, raises new questions about whether creativity is a uniquely human skill. Some recent and remarkable milestones of generative AI foster this question:

  • Yet, AI image generator Dall-E, for example, can produce novel output on any theme you wish within seconds.
  • The thousands of artists whose work has been scraped to produce the image?
  • The prompter who successfully describes the style, reference, subject matter, lighting, point of view and even emotion evoked?

What is creativity?

    • Exploratory creativity generates new ideas by exploring ‘structured conceptual spaces,’ that is, tweaking an accepted style of thinking by exploring its contents, boundaries and potential.
    • It is programmed to process information in a certain way to achieve particular results predictably, albeit in often unexpected ways.
    • Think of the camera, for example, which was feared due to its power to put portrait painters out of business.

Synthetic art for business


    Synthetic creativity on demand, as currently generated by AI, is certainly a boon to business and marketing. Recent examples include:
    • The potential use scenarios are endless and what they require is another form of creativity: curation.
    • Curation] is therefore needed to select and frame, or reframe, a unified and compelling vision.

Phylum Releases a Free Community Edition to Make Software Supply Chain Security More Accessible

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Thursday, August 4, 2022

EVERGREEN, Colo., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Phylum, The Software Supply Chain Security Company, announces the release of its free Phylum Community Edition to expand the standard in supply chain security risk analysis to everyone.

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  • Users can identify risks across five domains, work on multiple projects and take advantage of exclusive community benefits
    EVERGREEN, Colo., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Phylum , The Software Supply Chain Security Company,announces the release of its free Phylum Community Edition to expand the standard in supply chain security risk analysis to everyone.
  • Supply chain attacks are just getting started, and users need the ability to identify risk across the entire OSS supply chain attack surface.
  • With the Phylum Community Edition, users can quickly understand valuable risk insights based on our unique approach to defending the software supply chain," said Peter Morgan, co-founder and president of Phylum.
  • The Phylum Risk Framework is the standard in software supply chain security, defined by the following categories: Malicious Code, Software Vulnerabilities, Authorship Risk, Reputation, License Misuse and Engineering Risk.

Compelling evidence has been discovered by an Oregon woman, Deena Lindstedt, that Shakespeare's plays were coauthored by a woman!

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Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Is it possible the Shakespeare plays were co-authored by Elizabeth (Ely) Trentham along with her husband, Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford?

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  • Is it possible the Shakespeare plays were co-authored by Elizabeth (Ely) Trentham along with her husband, Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford?
  • No one really knows, but author Deena Lindstedt lays out a historical novel that will give the reader both delight plus a new perspective on the topic.
  • Having found the evidence she seeks, there are those who will use any means to keep her from revealing the truth.
  • For anyone who thinks that dreams can't be fulfilled, Deena quotes Theodore Roosevelt, "Believe you can and you're half-way there!"

American Friends Of Capodimonte Museum In Naples, Italy Announce Post-Doctoral Curatorial Fellow Appointment

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Thursday, September 23, 2021

CHICAGO, Sept. 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- American Friends of Capodimonte Museum (AFC) announces the appointment of Caroline Paganussi to the position of Post-Doctoral Curatorial Fellow.

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  • CHICAGO, Sept. 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- American Friends of Capodimonte Museum (AFC) announces the appointment of Caroline Paganussi to the position of Post-Doctoral Curatorial Fellow.
  • She is the second Post-Doctoral Fellow and the fourth fellow to be installed by the AFC since the program started in 2017.
  • "We are looking forward to a close collaboration with our second Post-Doctoral American Friends of Capodimonte Fellow," said Director Sylvain Bellenger.
  • Paganussi's tenure at Capodimonte has also been generously supported by the Tecno Industrial Group and its founder, Capodimonte Advisory Board President Giovanni Lombardi.