Vogue Business
What influencer marketing looks like in the metaverse
2 min read · 2021-12-07 · A broad range of fashion brands, including Prada, Puma and Yoox, are creating avatars to stand alongside the likes of Shudu and Lil Miquela. Their common goal? To be purpose-driven and community-led.
universalmusic.com
UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP AND GENIES ANNOUNCE GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP TO DEVELOP AVATARS AND DIGITAL WEARABLE NFTS FOR THE COMPANY’S ICONIC ROSTER…
3 min read · 2021-12-10 · Expansive Agreement Builds on UMG and Genies Early Artist Metaverse Collaborations LOS ANGELES (December 9, 2021) – Universal Music Group (UMG), the world leader in music-based entertainment, and…
readyplayer.me
Ready Player Me — Personal 3D Avatars for Games and VR
1 min read · 2020-05-05 · Personal 3D avatars for games and VR from a single selfie by Wolf3D.
BretKinsella.eth (read Voicebot.ai)
Val Kilmer Gets a New Synthetic Voice Replica from Sonantic
3 min read · 2021-08-17 · You may know that Val Kilmer lost his natural speaking voice due to throat cancer. The star of “Batman Forever,”..
The Believer
Ghosts
20+ min read · 2021-08-09 · 7. My sister was diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma when I was in my freshman year of high school and she was in her junior year. I didn’t understand then how serious a disease it was. But it was—serious.…
CNN
How a deepfake Tom Cruise on TikTok turned into a very real AI company
6 min read · 2021-08-06 · Earlier this year, videos of Tom Cruise started popping up on TikTok of the actor doing some surprisingly un-Tom-Cruise-like stuff: goofing around in an upscale men's clothing store; showing off a…
The Verge
New Anthony Bourdain documentary deepfakes his voice
1 min read · 2021-07-15 · An algorithm cloned his voice with twelve hours of audio
Vox
TikTok’s catfish problem is worse than you think
5 min read · 2021-07-06 · Several creators have been called out for faking their age and their race.
synthesia.io
Empowering Storytellers with AI
1 min read · From 2018 · Synthesia brings entirely new AI-driven capabilities to content creators. Fuelled by advancements in machine learning we push technological boundaries and empower storytellers to realise creative…
MIT Technology Review
These creepy fake humans herald a new age in AI
6 min read · 2021-06-11 · Need more data for deep learning? Synthetic data companies will make it for you.
mischiefusa.com
mischief.
1 min read · 2021-06-12 · RepresentUs is a bi-partisan organization dedicated to fighting political corruption. Its research revealed (as anyone watching the news can see) that American politics has become increasingly…
The Daily Beast
Shockingly Real Tom Cruise Deepfakes Are Invading TikTok
2 min read · 2021-02-26 · Be afraid. Be very afraid.
musebycl.io
Rise of the Avatars: Their Future in Gaming, Fashion and Music
5 min read · 2021-02-02 · Our virtual selves are just getting warmed up
Gizmodo
Microsoft Landed a Patent to Turn You Into a Chatbot
4 min read · 2021-01-23 · What if the most significant measure of your life’s labors has nothing to do with your lived experiences but merely your unintentional generation of a realistic digital clone of yourself, a specimen…
OpenAI
DALL·E: Creating Images from Text
20+ min read · 2021-01-05 · We’ve trained a neural network called DALL·E that creates images from text captions for a wide range of concepts expressible in natural language.
webaverse.com
Webaverse
1 min read · 2020-12-18 · A universe of apps build with IPFS, Ethereum, and WebXR
