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Nina Metz

@nina_metz
9 posts
2024-08-04
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2024-08-04 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: Meta is offering Hollywood celebrities like Judi Dench millions of dollars for the right to use their voices for AI projects; SAG-AFTRA agreed to terms

- Judi Dench, Awkwafina are among the celebrities holding talks  — Some terms sought by Meta trigger actors' fears of AI

2024-08-03
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2024-08-03 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: Meta is offering Hollywood celebrities like Judi Dench millions of dollars for the right to use their voices for AI projects; SAG-AFTRA agreed to terms

- Judi Dench, Awkwafina are among the celebrities holding talks  — Some terms sought by Meta trigger actors' fears of AI

2023-08-08
“We desperately need guardrails on this landslide of misattribution and misinformation. Amazon and Goodreads, I beg you to create a way to verify authorship, or for authors to easily block fraudulent books credited to them. Do it now, do it quickly” https://janefriedman.com/...
2023-08-08 View on X
Jane Friedman

An author finds multiple “garbage books” uploaded to Amazon under her name, most likely AI-generated, and on Goodreads, which removed them after her complaint

Update: Hours after this post was published, my Goodreads profile was cleaned of the offending titles.

2023-06-21
“The view tally comes from dividing the total time spent watching a series or movie in a given week by the running time ... [which] helps level the playing field for shows and films with shorter running times” Via THR https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
2023-06-21 View on X
The Hollywood Reporter

Netflix tweaks its weekly top 10 rankings to sort by “views”, calculated by dividing the time spent watching a film or a show in a week by its running time

The streamer's weekly rankings will now show the most popular titles by number of accounts watching as well as total time.

2023-05-24
“Bill Simmons, founder of Spotify-owned podcast network The Ringer, said the streaming platform is developing AI tools trained on its hosts' voices to create targeted ads” The biggest (most well-paid) names are either silent about AI or profiting from it https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
2023-05-24 View on X
Insider

Spotify is building AI tools trained on its hosts' voices to create targeted ads, per Bill Simmons, the founder of the Spotify-owned podcast network The Ringer

- Bill Simmons, founder of The Ringer, hinted at Spotify's future AI plans.  — He said that the streaming service is working on technology for AI-generated ads.

2023-04-04
This is a very interesting look at what's happening at Amazon By @kimmasters via THR https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
2023-04-04 View on X
The Hollywood Reporter

Many current and former Amazon executives, showrunners, and agents say Amazon Studios is confusing and frustrating; one showrunner says Studios has “no vision”

Despite ambitious bets like ‘Daisy Jones & The Six’ and the upcoming ‘Citadel,’ insiders complain that there's still …

2022-04-22
It has a fairly large cast who have negotiated their rates up, which accounts for ~some~ of the $30 million per episode costs. “Stranger Things” Stars Score Massive Pay Raises for Season 3 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2022-04-22 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: after churning out 500+ original programs last year, Netflix is looking to add fewer new titles and focus more on quality, while reining in spending

Streaming service spent lavishly on productions to win subscribers, but now growth has slowed  —  For Netflix Inc., NFLX -3.47% ▼ the era of carefree spending is over.

2022-04-21
The game plan for Netflix (below) seems like it's a temporary solution to a long term issue which is: Subscriber numbers can't increase indefinitely (unless you diversify with something else & my brain isn't big enough to speculate what that could even be) https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2022-04-21 View on X
Hollywood Reporter

Netflix's Q1 earnings show that Disney, Paramount, and other companies that reorganized around streaming video must deal with consistent subscriber volatility

2022-01-15
These price hikes are coming mighty often. Last one was about a year ago. https://twitter.com/...
2022-01-15 View on X
Reuters

Netflix raises its monthly subscription prices by $1 to $2 in the US and Canada; the standard US plan has increased from $13.99 to $15.49 per month

Netflix Inc has raised its monthly subscription price by $1 to $2 per month in the United States depending on the plan, the company said on Friday … Source: Netflix Help Center .