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Could AI Replace Tom Cruise? - DTNS 4711

Season 11, Ep. 4711

Is OpenAI’s text-to-video tool, Sora, a threat to the business of making TV shows and films? Plus, Google is pausing Gemini’s generation of people in images so it can adjust the model to produce more historically accurate results. And AT&T has been dealing with widespread service issues for more than ten hours affecting millions of subscribers across the US.


Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Charlotte Henry, Roger Chang, Joe.

Link to the Show Notes.

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