Andy Halliday

So there's a lot of buzz in the newsletters today about ByteDance, the AI company in China that is the developer of TikTok.

So they have a very large profile in the world, but as well, they are one of the leading AI companies in China.

And they've just released a video generation platform that's currently available only in China, but it's called Seed Dance 2.0.

And here's what the Neuron newsletter said about that.

It has native audio generation, lip sync speech, 2K resolution, and quality that makes Google's VO 3.1 and OpenAI Sora 2 look like they're running on a flip phone.

It's casting some serious shade on some serious video generation platforms.

And so Seed Dance is really getting a viral buzz right at the moment because it's really, really capable.

But you had to be really liberal to get suspended from it.

Wow.

Right.

I'm moving on to another thing that got placement in a couple of the different AI newsletters today.

And that is newly published research from a professor at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business.

where they did a, basically they,

worked with a US technology company.

What I read didn't say which technology company it was.

And 200 of their employees who are working with AI and basically analyzed their changed work habits as a result of that.

And here's the TLDR of it.

It's AI, which is expected to reduce the amount of work you have to do,

doesn't do that.

It basically enables you to work more intensely and more continuously, which they conclude has some possible downstream negative effects on worker satisfaction because there's very little break time or relief from the intensity of working with AI.