How Top Creators Use AI to Double Income

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This week, we're diving into the delightfully bizarre intersection of technology and human ingenuity. From audiobook empires being built by synthetic voices to musicians releasing albums filled with absolutely nothing (and somehow making their loudest statement yet), the AI revolution continues to surprise, disrupt, and occasionally make us question our life choices.

In this week's menu:

• 💰 OnlyFans creators discover AI

• 🎧 ElevenLabs challenges Audible

• 🤫 UK musicians protest AI copyright laws

• 🏴‍☠️ Meta employees caught discussing copyright

• 🛠️ + 4 new AI tools to boost your creativity

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AI and SEO: The Secret Weapons of OnlyFans Creators

Who knew AI could spice up your OnlyFans game? Top creators are now harnessing artificial intelligence and SEO wizardry to rake in the big bucks. They're deploying AI chatbots to handle the avalanche of DMs, ensuring no fan feels ignored. Meanwhile, savvy SEO strategies are boosting their visibility, drawing in fresh subscribers like bees to honey. It's a high-tech hustle that's turning the oldest profession into the newest digital goldmine. Curious how they're doing it?

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ElevenLabs' DIY Audiobook Platform Takes On Audible

ElevenLabs is opening its audiobook self-publishing platform to all authors, challenging Audible's dominance with more attractive royalty rates. Authors can now create AI-generated audiobooks and publish them directly on ElevenLabs' Reader app, earning approximately $1.10 when listeners engage with content for over 11 minutes.

The move comes days after ElevenLabs partnered with Spotify for AI narration and follows their recent $180 million funding round. With traditional audiobook production requiring expensive studio time and voice actors, ElevenLabs offers authors a more affordable alternative while expanding its consumer-facing business.

Music

Silent Protest: UK Artists Release "Soundless" Album Against AI Copyright Grab

In a creative act of digital defiance, 1,000 musicians including Kate Bush and Hans Zimmer have released a completely silent album titled "Is This What We Want?" The project protests the UK government's proposed copyright changes that would let AI companies train models on artists' content without permission unless creators actively "opt out."

Organized by Ed Newton-Rex (ironically, a former AI music startup founder), the album features empty studio recordings symbolizing what artists believe will be their future if the law passes. Track titles spell out "The British government must not legalize music theft to benefit AI companies."

With 47,000 creative professionals already signing a related petition, artists warn they'll distribute their work elsewhere if the UK continues its AI-friendly approach.

Ethics

Meta Caught Red-Handed: AI Training's Copyright Problem

Meta employees were playing fast and loose with copyright law, according to newly unsealed court documents. Internal chats show staffers discussing using copyrighted books for AI training with the philosophy of "ask forgiveness, not permission."

One engineer even suggested buying retail e-books rather than licensing content properly, while another mentioned potentially using Libgen, a notorious piracy site. The team brainstormed "mitigations" like filtering out files marked as "stolen" and programming their AI models to refuse questions about their training data.

Meta apparently needed more content than what Facebook and Instagram posts could provide. With authors Sarah Silverman and Ta-Nehisi Coates among the plaintiffs, Meta has added Supreme Court litigators to their legal team – a sign they know they're in deep trouble.

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