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VISUAL CREATORS
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🖼️ Meta Tags AI-Generated Images & Creates More Problems

Meta, formerly known as Facebook, is introducing an 'AI info' tag to disclose whether an image has been altered or created using AI—a move aimed at reducing the spread of misinformation and boosting transparency.

Reactions range from skepticism to concern over the impact on candid and documentary photography. Some question Meta's ability to distinguish between harmless retouching and malicious manipulation.

Photographers have expressed concerns about the impact on candid or documentary-style photography, as well as the potential for a general erosion of trust in the medium.

Meta’s label change also threatens camera artists’ business models as the platform becomes more video-focused and as monetization efforts like boosting posts further limit photographers’ organic reach.

Even though the tech giant is making efforts to differentiate between manipulations and standard edits, some creators are skeptical, given Meta's history with mishandling creator content and its current AI mislabeling fiasco.

PRODUCTION MASTERY
The commercial aspects of creativity.

🎞️ Coppola Opens All-Movie Hotel

Francis Ford Coppola, the legendary filmmaker behind The Godfather and Apocalypse Now, has opened a unique retreat for fellow cinephiles: The All-Movie Hotel.

It's not your typical lodging—it's a filmmaker's dream, with top-notch tech and a cozy vibe for creators to cut their films and catch some Zs in style.

Just outside Atlanta, this haven features state-of-the-art editing suites where creators can live and breathe their projects.

The 27-suite property features state-of-the-art post-production facilities and offers filmmakers and film crews a place to stay and work. At $1,000 a night, guests get access to two editing suites, two edit bays, an ADR recording room, and more, all personally designed by Coppola.

Picture this: you’re working on your indie masterpiece by day and sipping wine by the pool at night. For cinephiles and filmmakers, it’s a dream come true straight from Coppola’s own imagination.

It’s like an AirBnB, but instead of staying in someone else's house, you're living in a filmmaker's vision.

CREATOR ECONOMY
Navigating the digital creative world.

🎬 YouTube Shorts: 6 New Tools

YouTube is adding new features to its short-form video product, YouTube Shorts, including tools to create auto-captioned videos and options for creators to remix content.

The new tools will build on existing ones, like a feature that can turn full-length videos into Shorts. YouTube's also leaning into remix culture, letting users create Shorts from existing…Shorts.

YouTube Shorts, which was just launched last fall, already clocks 6.5 billion daily views, and creators upload 300 hours' worth of Shorts each minute, according to CEO Susan Wojcicki.

🔥 Press Worthy

📽️ VISUAL CREATORS

AI art pioneers, Obvious, return to Christie’s with “IMAGINE,” a mind-to-image series. Last time, they raked in $432K; now, they’re exploring “Neo-Surrealism” with a $10K estimate. The future of art is wired.

Berlin's state museums lost 3 artworks, including 2 Warhols, that were supposed to stay. The collector's family changed the deal and sold them to Gagosian. Germany's not happy; they call it their "Giacometti moment."

📈 PRODUCTION MASTERY

ElevenLabs partners with celebrity estates to bring iconic voices to their Reader App, featuring Laurence Olivier, James Dean, Judy Garland, and more. It's a bit creepy now, but could this be a glimpse into AI's future content creation?

Paramount Global's stock perks up 10% as investors weigh its new CEO's style. Jeff Shell's hands-on media approach has some analysts cautious. David Ellison, future chairman, says the "media-tech" move is happening by H1 2025.

🎭 CREATOR ECONOMY

Spotify adds comment feature to podcasts, furthering its app’s social push beyond just music.

Businesses are turning everything into an ad network, flooding the retail media space with offerings from non-traditional retailers like Chase and United Airlines. Amazon, Walmart, and Instacart are no longer alone in the game. Now, even your favorite airlines and banks have ads to sell.

📚 Learn & Grow

📽️ VISUAL CREATORS

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• Art History and Performing Art Majors Face Highest Rates of Unemployment, New Study Finds

📈 PRODUCTION MASTERY

• “Shooting on Film Remains Somewhat of a Black Art”: DP Adam Stone on The Bikeriders

• Profoto ProStudio Streamlines Workflows for Studio Photographers

🎭 CREATOR ECONOMY

• The Rise and Fall of GoPro Explained

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