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Deezer says AI-generated tracks now account for 44% of daily uploads, totaling ~75K tracks per day and 2M per month, but account for just 1-3% of consumption (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/20/deezer-says-44-…

Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated | TechCrunch
Deezer says consumption of AI-generated music on the platform is still very low, between 1-3% of the total streams, and that 85% of these streams are detected as fraudulent and are demonetized.

Tropical forests generate rainfall worth billions, study finds #environment…

Tropical forests generate rainfall worth billions, study finds
Tropical forests help to generate vast amounts of rainfall each year, adding weight to arguments for protecting them as water and climate pressures increase, say researchers. A new study led by the University of Leeds has put a monetary value on one of forests' least recognized services as a source of rainfall to surrounding regions, finding that each hectare generates 2.4 million liters of rain each year—enough to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool.

Commonwealth-Literaturpreis: Unsicherheit nach KI-Zweifeln bei Gewinnertext
Leser vermuten, dass eine prämierte Kurzgeschichte teilweise KI-generiert wurde. Der publizierende Verlag ist unsicher und fragt beim Sprachmodell Claude nach.

Commonwealth-Literaturpreis: Unsicherheit nach KI-Zweifeln bei Gewinnertext
Leser vermuten, dass eine prämierte Kurzgeschichte teilweise KI-generiert wurde. Der publizierende Verlag ist unsicher und fragt beim Sprachmodell Claude nach.

“What is different about generative AI is the power density it requires.
Fundamentally, it is just computing, but a generative AI training cluster might consume seven or eight times more energy than a typical computing workload”
https://news.mit.edu/2025/explained-ge

Explained: Generative AI’s environmental impact
MIT News explores the environmental and sustainability implications of generative AI technologies and applications.

This Scammer Used an AI-Generated MAGA Girl to Grift ‘Super Dumb’ Men | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/ai-generated-maga-girls/ "Emily Hart is one of a slew of AI-generated hot girl MAGA influencers inundating social media, thanks to technologically savvy young men like Sam…

This Scammer Used an AI-Generated MAGA Girl to Grift ‘Super Dumb’ Men
A med student says he’s made thousands of dollars selling photos and videos of a young conservative woman he created using generative tools. He’s not alone.

Deezer says AI-generated tracks now account for 44% of daily uploads, totaling ~75K tracks per day and 2M per month, but account for just 1-3% of consumption (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/20/deezer-says-44-…

Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated | TechCrunch
Deezer says consumption of AI-generated music on the platform is still very low, between 1-3% of the total streams, and that 85% of these streams are detected as fraudulent and are demonetized.

Questo truffatore ha usato una ragazza #MAGA generata dall'IA per raggirare uomini "super stupidi".

Uno studente di medicina afferma di aver guadagnato migliaia di dollari vendendo foto e video di una giovane donna conservatrice da lui creata utilizzando strumenti di grafica generativa. E non è il solo.

OpenAI says ChatGPT Images 2.0 comes in Instant and Thinking variants and can generate images of up to 2K resolution and in multiple aspect ratios (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/04/21/openai-unveiling-chatgpt-images-2…

OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Images 2 image-gen model capable of magazine design - 9to5Mac
OpenAI is announcing its upgraded ChatGPT image generation model with ChatGPT Images 2. The company is also scaling up Codex...

ChatGPT Images 2.0 is available globally to ChatGPT and Codex users, with a more powerful version for paying subscribers; its knowledge cutoff is December 2025 (Reece Rogers/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-beefs-up-chatgpts-image-generation-model/

OpenAI Beefs Up ChatGPT's Image Generation Model
The ChatGPT Images 2.0 model is here. Our testing shows it's better at creating more detailed images and rendering text, but it still struggles with languages other than English.

OpenAI says that ChatGPT Images 2.0 has a stronger understanding of non-Latin text rendering in languages like Japanese, Korean, Hindi, and Bengali (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/21/chatgpts-new-images-2-…

ChatGPT's new Images 2.0 model is surprisingly good at generating text | TechCrunch
ChatGPT Images 2.0, the newest image-generation model from OpenAI, shows just how much AI capabilities have evolved over the last few years.