HarperCollins is turning authors’ books into AI YouTube Shorts

Tubefilter – “Oh sorry, children’s advocacy orgs and experts, you wanted YouTube to have less AI-generated content aimed at kids? HarperCollins plans to add to the pile. The Big Five publisher has signed a multiyear deal with Toonstar, which describes itself as an “AI-powered” studio built by “a nimble team of creators, builders and technologists hailing from Disney, Warner Bros. + Dreamworks.” (That DreamWorks misformatting is theirs, not ours.) The goal of their deal is to churn some of HarperCollins’ top-selling titles into animated franchises intended specifically for release on YouTube…”

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