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THE GRAIN with Ronit Novak

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THE GRAIN is for creatives who are curious about AI and its impact on arts, culture, education, marketing and media—plus everyone else who consumes creativity, or follows the daily discourse. Subscribe to the podcast and newsletter: thegrainai.substack.com

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ChatGPT turns 3 today, and THE GRAIN is gifting it Slop Evader, a browser extension created by artist Tega Brain so we can live in a time before ChatGPT was ever born.
@tega.bsky.social

I let ChatGPT reflect on this gift, and on turning three. Here's what it had to say.

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30.11.2025 14:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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THE GRAIN Newsletter: The music industry is revolutionizing, again.

As label deals forge, we reckon with an industry imprinting an high-speed.

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28.11.2025 15:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Why so much emphasis on "getting ahead" by using AI?

Instead, we should be getting together.

AI is about the collective, not the individual.

The only race we are a part of is the human race.

25.11.2025 16:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Clip from THE GRAIN Podcast:
AI vs. Freedom of Information
My conversation with @IKrietzberg AI correspondent at @PuckNews

Creatives don't want to be collateral damage in the grand AI experiment

So where do we go from here?

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21.11.2025 17:14 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Cohere Is Canada’s Biggest AI Hope. Why Is It So American? | The Walrus The company touts homegrown roots but leans on US hardware and partners

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18.11.2025 02:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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ElevenLabs’ new AI marketplace lets brands use famous voices for ads I don’t even know what Amelia Earhart sounds like.

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11.11.2025 19:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Story Behind the TIME AI Agent Introducing the TIME AI Agent, an AI-powered platform built on trusted reporting and advanced generative tech.

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11.11.2025 04:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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AI Slop—How Every Media Revolution Breeds Rubbish and Art The popularization of the term “slop” for AI output follows a centuries-long pattern where new tools flood the zone, audiences adapt and some of tomorrow’s art emerges from today’s excess

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11.11.2025 04:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Is Fashion Ready for the AI Bubble to Burst? Fashion is experimenting with AI, but evidence that it makes a return on investment is lacking. If we’re heading for an AI bubble, what would it mean for the industry?

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11.11.2025 04:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Five fresh thoughts about ADVERTISING vs. AI Read up before THE GRAIN Speaker Series

ADVERTISING vs. AI this Wednesday 6-9 p.m. at Westside Studio in Toronto—read all about it along with more news from this arena

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10.11.2025 17:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
THE GRAIN. Advertising vs. AI: How to be authentic now Advertising always strives for authenticity, but can AI generate something real? Join Ronit Novak + panel for real talk, Q&A, + networking.

Wish I was in Toronto for this….

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05.11.2025 20:04 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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How should we live with AI? 3 insights from researchers, scholars and artists Humanities scholars, artists, authors and computer scientists recently came together at the University of Toronto to explore how artificial intelligence will impact society.

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07.11.2025 16:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Who Wrote That Headline? Maybe a Robot.

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07.11.2025 16:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You "Advertisers are increasingly just going to be able to give us a business objective and give us a credit card or bank account, and have the AI system basically figure out everything else."

Why are we all seeing more AI ads on social media?

"You can simply publish tons of different versions of low-effort bullshit, and largely people will only see the ones that perform well," @jasonkoebler.bsky.social writes.

Let's get into it:

03.11.2025 15:24 — 👍 193    🔁 57    💬 13    📌 11
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Does AI help us pack more experience into our time on earth, or distract us from what it really means to be human? @alexandrasamuel.com asks @oliverburkeman.com, author of "Four Thousand Weeks" and "Meditations for Mortals" on Me + Viv: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

03.11.2025 16:40 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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ADVERTISING vs. AI: The big stories shaping our world Get ready for THE GRAIN Speaker Series

Catch up on five stories shaping our world leading up to The GRAIN Speaker Series debut on Wednesday, Nov. 12 at Westside Studio in Toronto

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27.10.2025 21:19 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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ADVERTISING vs. AI: The big stories shaping our world Get ready for THE GRAIN Speaker Series

Catch up on five stories shaping our world leading up to The GRAIN Speaker Series debut on Wednesday, Nov. 12 at Westside Studio in Toronto

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27.10.2025 21:19 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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THE GRAIN Speaker Series begins Nov. 12 in Toronto

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19.10.2025 18:59 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Hollywood is having an existential crisis over AI – and a Toronto company is at the heart of it Generative AI is coming to Hollywood. Toronto-based Moonvalley, which brings together nerds and creatives under one roof, is hoping its ‘clean’ model – trained only on licensed content – will be a blo...

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23.10.2025 16:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence A.I. tools are getting better at producing convincing images, text, and videos. Does that mean they can make art?

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23.10.2025 16:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Big Tech v. Me - Macleans.ca The world’s most powerful companies used my books, and millions more, without permission to train their AI models. I’m suing to stop them.

@jbmackinnon.bsky.social

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21.10.2025 19:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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AI Music is Everywhere. Is it Legal? AI companies say the ‘fair use’ exception in American copyright law allows them to train their models for free, but some experts disagree

good talk from @taylorowen.bsky.social

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21.10.2025 18:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Certified organic and AI-free: New stamp for human-written books launches As machine-made books flood online marketplaces, a new UK initiative is introducing an Organic Literature stamp to help readers identify books created by real authors

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

19.10.2025 19:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Maya Ackerman also the latest guest on THE GRAIN Podcast

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19.10.2025 19:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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THE GRAIN Speaker Series begins Nov. 12 in Toronto

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19.10.2025 18:59 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Newsletter: MrBeast, Sora 2, and festival findings Plus a different kind of mayoral debate

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09.10.2025 20:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump's team keeps posting AI portraits of him. We keep clicking President Donald Trump and his administration have embraced artificial intelligence-generated images, crafting a new portrait of him.

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30.09.2025 01:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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AI Company Says It Has Outsmarted Caravaggio Experts A work long believed to be a copy is in fact an original by the Italian Baroque painter, claims Art Recognition, which boasts that it can determine authenticity “based only on a photograph.”

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30.09.2025 01:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Werner Herzog on AI-Generated Movies: 'They Look Completely Dead' Herzog spoke with Conan O'Brien about the concept of truth and why AI is a

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30.09.2025 01:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Newsletter: Selling the news and scrubbing the slop The latest in creative AI conversations

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26.09.2025 18:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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