A study published in Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence finds that leading AI chatbots such as Gemini, GPT and Llama often generate overlapping ideas when tasked with creative problems. Testing more than twenty models from various companies against over one hundred human participants, researchers observed that AI outputs clustered tightly while human responses covered a much broader space. Efforts to increase randomness or prompt the models for greater imagination produced only modest gains and often reduced coherence. The findings suggest that while AI can produce impressive individual suggestions, widespread reliance on these tools may compress the overall diversity of ideas. Read more →

Generative AI is prompting a wave of copyright disputes as companies use large amounts of human‑created content to train models. Creators argue that many firms have incorporated copyrighted works without permission, leading to more than 30 active lawsuits. The U.S. Copyright Office maintains that fully AI‑generated images and videos are not eligible for protection, though AI‑edited works may be registered if creators disclose the AI contribution. Tech firms are pushing for a fair‑use exemption to avoid licensing fees, while industry groups and thousands of writers oppose such a carve‑out. Courts and regulators remain the ultimate arbiters of how copyright will apply to AI. Read more →

Director Valerie Veatch, initially intrigued by OpenAI's 2024 Sora text-to-video model, became alarmed by the technology's racist and sexist outputs. Her frustration led to the creation of the documentary "Ghost in the Machine," which traces generative AI back to Victorian‑era eugenics and the statistical work of Francis Galton and Karl Pearson. The film interviews researchers and historians, highlights Veatch's own encounters with biased AI results, and critiques industry indifference. It will stream on Kinema from March 26th to March 28th before a PBS broadcast in the fall. Read more →

Moxie Marlinspike, the creator of Signal and its encryption protocol, announced that his privacy‑focused AI platform, Confer, will incorporate its technology into Meta AI. The collaboration aims to provide end‑to‑end encryption for AI chat conversations, shielding user data from AI companies, hackers, subpoenas, and governments. Researchers praised the effort as an important step toward private AI chatbots, while noting that the solution is still evolving. The move could bring encrypted AI interactions to millions of users across Meta’s services. Read more →

Hollywood director Coerte Voorhees is using generative AI to recreate Val Kilmer’s likeness for the historical drama *As Deep As the Grave*. The film, set in the 1920s and focused on an archaeologist couple working with the Navajo people, will feature an AI‑generated Kilmer as Father Fintan, a Native American priest. Kilmer’s family has approved the digital resurrection, and the project arrives amid ongoing debates within SAG‑AFTRA about consent, compensation, and the broader impact of AI on the entertainment industry. Read more →