"[W]hat's really interesting is empathy is really a result of experiences and so machines can never have experiences …[T]hese lines are being super blurred and what it means to be human and connect with another based on authentic shared experiences now is shifting."

The Market Signal: Netflix Retreats from Membership Metrics as "Drama Slop" Apps Surge
$40M per month: How ReelShort exposes Netflix's value problem
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“I would say it's less of a development and more of commentary that I've been hearing, which is we need to move away from conversations of AI being about effectiveness and efficiency and infuse more of the human element in.

I'm finding the discussion around both the future of media and generative artificial intelligence (#AI) has gotten messy and ugly.

This afternoon, I shared four market signals with my PARQOR Platinum subscribers that I have gleaned from recent conversations with entrepreneurs in generative AI.

“I mean like a Hollywood creator, an artist, whomever… If you want your stuff to be seen, machines need to show it to people. If you want your stuff to be seen, machines need to show it to people. It's not like a theater needs to decide to show it or a movie studio decides to green light it.

The Market Signal
Yesterday, the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) antitrust trial against #Meta Platforms—owner of hashtag#Facebook, hashtag#Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp—commenced in Washington, D.C.

"I feel so much more strongly about
@Chase as an innovator… This is an example where I was expecting a human to do a better job than an automated system. And the automated system did what I was asking for.

“I work in the AI twin space and the more data you can feed your AI twin, the more effective your AI twin is going to be for yourself as a thought partner, but then also as an interface that other people can actually interact with.”

Yesterday, a must-watch podcast interview debuted between film-maker James Cameron by $META CTO and Head of Reality Labs Andrew “Boz” Bosworth.

"@OpenAI.bsky.social's new 4.0 image gen and the ability for us to just take images, plop it in, prompt ourselves, and getting the fidelity of what they just deployed this morning has actually shook me and our entire team building out this accelerator…"

“[W]e can expand the horizons of creativity and use AI as a superpower for something that we for a long time judged to be owned just by humans and what is the next frontier of creativity boosted by AI?

The Market Signal: @runwayml Raises At $3 Billion Valuation

Runway, the artificial intelligence (AI) video startup which partnered with Lionsgate last September for editing and production capabilities, raised $308 million in a new Series D round that valued it at “about $3B”.

Voices in ChAInge is a series of 12 short interviews (1.5 to 5 minutes long)—produced by The Medium—that offer a wide variety of answers to this simple question: “What is a recent market signal or development in AI that forced you to rethink a key business assumption?”

Today, The Medium is excited to be launching Voices in ChAInge, a series of 12 short interviews (1.5 to 5 minutes long) that offer a wide variety of answers to this simple question: “What is a recent market signal or development in AI that forced you to rethink a key business assumption?”