Comments on the AI streaming fraud inquiry close 23 Nov. Plus Vidu Q4 from $0.014 a second.
The Copyright Office started an inquiry on 7 October into how streaming fraud works and how AI-generated music feeds it; comments close 23 November. A day earlier Michael Smith got 18 months and an $8.09 million forfeiture for bot-streaming hundreds of thousands of AI songs. If you release AI music, this is where stricter distributor checks would come from, and anyone can comment.
Anyone can now upload images, video or audio and check for SynthID, the invisible watermark in Nano Banana, Veo and Lyria output, plus OpenAI, Nvidia and Kakao files. CNET found an iPhone photo touched up with Apple's Reframe tool came back flagged; the untouched original did not. It is not a general AI detector, but clients and platforms can now check your deliverables in a few clicks.
Magnific co-founder Javi Lopez walks through Backrooms Nemoris S1E01, a 17:41 episode he made alone. His lessons: don't do handheld, drip the lore out across posts instead of betting on one long upload, and at this length, form a band rather than carrying it yourself. The video is sponsored by Magnific, Lopez's own company, so weigh the tool talk accordingly.
Fanta's Haunted Universe, made by AI studio GRAiL, ran before Resident Evil screenings with a cyborg Frankenstein and a Ghostface cameo. Creative Bloq reports the replies are almost all negative, many vowing to stop buying Fanta. The brand plans to bring the universe back every year, so this is a live test of riding out AI backlash. If you pitch AI ads, this is the case clients will raise.
Shengshu's next flagship model went to public preview on 8 October, priced from $0.014 per second of output. It takes up to 15 reference images and 3 reference audio clips for voice consistency, and renders 2K or 4K in 10-bit colour. 'From' and 'preview' are doing work in that price, so check the rate at your resolution before you budget a project on it.
Anthropic's Motion beta, out since 8 October, writes code that animates your text, charts, shapes and images, then exports an MP4 you can open in Adobe, Descript or HeyGen. It does not use a video model, so there are no generated people, and any word, number or timing can be changed after the render. It is Team and Enterprise only for now.
Artivient pushed the pharaoh myth into the machine age: a crimson steel pyramid built over the old one, an android army standing guard, and Nefertiti rising from the sand to take back what was stolen. It runs 45 seconds and went up on 9 October. The video plays for logged-out readers; the replies need an X login.