Artificial Intelligence

• After paying out $100,000 to creators in 2025, Fairground is ready to advance AI artistry in 2026
• AI performers are making it onto the Billboard charts

  AI artists like Xania Monet are starting to make it onto the Billboard charts. Is that a good thing or an ill omen for the music business?

  
• Consumers are picking up the AI “Vibes” Meta is putting down

  Amidst general turmoil in the world of AI, Meta may have found a hit with a generative AI feature known as the Vibes feed.

  
• There’s now an AI talent studio for “hyperreal digital stars,” and Hollywood isn’t happy

  Generative AI "actor" Tilly Norwood and her human creator are shaking up Hollywood with an AI talent studio.

  
• AI is trained on YouTube videos. Now we can see which ones have been used.
• YouTube is the platform with the most AI chatbot referrals. Competitors want to catch up.
• Substack survey shows deep creator divides on the subject of generative AI
• MrBeast finds out creators aren’t ready for AI thumbnails
• YouTube shuts down “true crime” channel that was all AI lies
• AI companies want digital content to train their models. RHEI’s new platform lets creators license it to them.
• Meta envisions a future where human creators share the stage with AI content mills
• An AI VTuber is setting world records on Twitch