creators

• Meta wants more creators to pay for verification. So it’s giving them 12 months for free.
• Yahoo News’ next big source? Creators, who are getting ad revenue in exchange for articles

  To date, Yahoo has signed up nearly 100 YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram creators, Bloomberg reports. Participating creators are paid by revenue share, receiving a 50/50 split on earnings from ads run against their articles.

  
• Chatbot company Character.AI faces lawsuit over 14-year-old’s death

  Character.AI was founded in 2021 by Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, who left Google after it reportedly quashed their attempts to push developing a chatbot. They went on to turn Character.AI into a unicorn, raising $150 million at a $1 billion valuation—and Google was apparently interested in that, because this past August, it hired Shazeer and De Freitas back, plus brought on other members of the Character.AI team, to work in its AI unit Deepmind.

  
• How is Nintendo so bad at letting creators share its games?

  
• 70% of creators say AI is a threat to their careers
• Icon wants to create a LOT of AI ads for brands (with creators’ consent)
• YouTuber launches first-of-its-kind class action lawsuit against OpenAI
• The creator economy is a $250 billion business. So why isn’t the U.S. Census counting it?
• Eight finance YouTubers named in $1 billion lawsuit over FTX promotion
• Should creators believe Elon Musk’s big promises?
• Meta’s ‘Creators of Tomorrow’ include emerging stars like QCP, Drew Afualo
• MrBeast, Dhar Mann, Wengie among keynote speakers at this year’s VidSummit conference