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• YouTube expands AI Portraits to turn creators into chatbots
• After paying out $100,000 to creators in 2025, Fairground is ready to advance AI artistry in 2026

  Fairground is one of several studios dedicated to AI artists and their work. It paid out more than $100,000 to creators this year.

  
• TikTok knows some users are fed up with AI content, so it’s letting them choose how much of it they see

  TikTok is improving its ability to detect AI-generated content so that it can allow some users to see fewer posts of that type.

  
• 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?

  
• YouTube reorganizes product teams in search of “faster decision making and execution”
• On TikTok, some creators will be able to keep “up to 90%” of their Subscription earnings
• Consumers are picking up the AI “Vibes” Meta is putting down
• There’s now an AI talent studio for “hyperreal digital stars,” and Hollywood isn’t happy
• Want to be a test subject for YouTube’s AI features? Step into the lab.
• Former OnlyFans CEO raises $2.7 million to put new twist on titillating content
• AI is trained on YouTube videos. Now we can see which ones have been used.
• YouTube’s AI-powered age line is now live. Will it work as intended?