Alan Smithee (also Allen Smithee) is an official pseudonym used by film directors who wish to disown a project. Coined by the Directors Guild of America in 1968, it was used until 2000 when it was largely discontinued.[1] It was the sole pseudonym used by DGA members who were, on paper, directors of a film but were dissatisfied with the final product and able to prove to a guild panel that they had not been able to exercise creative control over its filming process. The director was also required by guild rules not to discuss the circumstances leading to the move or even to acknowledge being the project's director.[2] The Alan Smithee credit has also been adopted for direction credit disputes in television, music videos and other media.
How Creatives and Devs Can All Finally Escape the Control of the Silicon Valley of Evil and Make a Trillion Dollars, Audio Style
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Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names | Kalzumeus Software
Classic essay about how software routinely bumbles human names.
Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me | Decoder
US man pleads guilty to defrauding music streamers out of millions using AI
Michael Smith, 52, charged after flooding platforms with thousands of AI songs and boosting them with bots
Sloppelgängers
Superhuman’s CEO sat for an interview about the AI feature that used writers’ names without permission. What he revealed was worse than the feature itself.
Anonymity, pseudonymity, and the agency of online identity: Examining the social practices of r/Gonewild
A debate is currently raging regarding the value of anonymity online. On one side of the debate is Facebook, the world’s largest social network site. Facebook demands that people use their real names and is one of the leading forces behind the push towards a “real name” Internet. On the other side of the debate are scholars such as danah boyd and Bernie Hogan and sites such as 4chan and Reddit that view anonymity and pseudonymity as important to how people construct identity online. While much has been written about the benefits of anonymity and pseudonymity, there is a lack of published research examining specific practices enabled by pseudonyms. This paper provides a detailed account of the behaviors enabled through pseudonymous identity construction through a case study of the subreddit r/gonewild. The main contribution of the article is to provide a specific account of the costs of a totalizing embrace of the “real name” Internet.
Anonymity, pseudonymity, and the agency of online identity: Examining the social practices of r/Gonewild
A debate is currently raging regarding the value of anonymity online. On one side of the debate is Facebook, the world’s largest social network site. Facebook demands that people use their real names and is one of the leading forces behind the push towards a “real name” Internet. On the other side of the debate are scholars such as danah boyd and Bernie Hogan and sites such as 4chan and Reddit that view anonymity and pseudonymity as important to how people construct identity online. While much has been written about the benefits of anonymity and pseudonymity, there is a lack of published research examining specific practices enabled by pseudonyms. This paper provides a detailed account of the behaviors enabled through pseudonymous identity construction through a case study of the subreddit r/gonewild. The main contribution of the article is to provide a specific account of the costs of a totalizing embrace of the “real name” Internet.
The emerging skillset of wielding coding agents — Beyang Liu, Sourcegraph / Amp
'The ability to say no': Artists demand consent over AI use of their music
As labels strike deals with AI start-ups, advocacy groups warn that the artists whose voices and work make those deals valuable are being shut out.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says he might rename the company 'Agentforce'
The SaaS pioneer recently learned in focus groups that customers want to talk about AI agents now
Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine Think A.I. Is Good for Music
The hit-making duo turned tech moguls also have thoughts about why corporate America isn’t collaborative enough.
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Music Publishers Sue AI Company Anthropic for Copyright Infringement
Universal Music Publishing Group, Concord, and ABKCO claim that the large language model Claud was trained on copyrighted works
Who Is Satoshi Nakamoto? My Quest to Unmask Bitcoin’s Creator
Bitcoin’s creator has hidden behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto for 17 years. But a trail of clues buried deep in crypto lore led to a 55-year-old computer scientist named Adam Back.
‘This Is Not Me’: Inside the AI Scams Driving Musicians Crazy
Indie artists are constantly finding AI-generated slop and direct impersonations on their streaming pages, and it's only getting worse.
