Can We Stop Calling Everything AI?

About this episode

This episode provides a recap of the latest AI developments affecting the creative industries, highlighting discussions in Hollywood and the music industry's legal battles over AI.

Weekly AI news for the creative industries. Every Monday, Technically Creative brings you a fast, opinionated recap of the biggest stories in artificial intelligence, entertainment, media and technology from the week just gone, and what they mean for the week ahead. This is a new kind of episode for Technically Creative. Alongside our usual interviews with leaders across film, television, advertising, technology and the creative industries, Orlando Wood will now start each week with a short AI Week in Review, designed for anyone trying to keep up with an industry that seems to change every five minutes. For the week ending August 28, 2026, the AI debate is getting considerably more complicated. Hollywood leaders including Kathleen Kennedy have been quietly discussing how the industry should distinguish between generative AI, machine-learning tools and genuinely human-controlled creative workflows. Meanwhile, the music industry is simultaneously investing in AI and fighting it in court. Universal Music Group, Sony Music and Warner Music are backing Stability AI, while music publishers pursue copyright litigation against Anthropic. The emerging dividing line may not be AI versus…

People in this episode

Host: Orlando Wood

Topics covered

• AI news
• creative industries
• entertainment
• media
• technology
• music industry
• copyright litigation

Keywords

• artificial intelligence
• Hollywood
• music industry
• copyright
• generative AI
• machine-learning
• metadata
• attribution
• creative economy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Universal Music Group, Sony Music, Warner Music, Stability AI, Anthropic, Nvidia, Hugging Face

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