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Earlier this year, Neil Druckmann, head of Sony-owned studio Naughty Dog, said in an interview that AI will "revolutionize the way content is created" and can "reduce costs and technical barriers." Although Druckmann later claimed that Sony misquoted him, Naughty Dog appears to be moving forward with developing tools that can be used by artificial intelligence. A recent job posting shows that Naughty Dog is looking for an animation programmer to develop animation systems that can be used by AI, designers, and scripts. …

Sony Music Group has issued a warning against unauthorized companies using its music data to train large-scale AI models. The warning involves more than 700 companies, and Sony has made it clear that it is not allowed to use its music data for text mining, web crawling, and other forms of data collection, including recordings, musical compositions, cover artwork, and metadata, without permission. This is because AI modeling vendors must respect the intellectual property of songwriters and recording artists, and using the data without their authorization would affect the legitimacy and fairness of the intellectual property. Image source note: Image generated by AI, image licensed to service provider Midj...