N.Y.C. Says Airbn-bye + How Far Would You Go for a GPU? + The A.I. Songs of the Summer

<p>Are New York City’s new rules for short-term rentals like Airbnb effectively a ban? And will they accomplish what proponents want them to? Then, The New York Times tech reporter Erin Griffith on Silicon Valley’s mad dash for GPUs. And finally, we take stock of the A.I. songs of the summer and discuss YouTube and Universal Music Group’s plan to make synthetic voices profitable.</p><p><strong>On Today’s Episode:</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/erin-griffith" target="_blank">Erin Griffith</a> is a New York Times journalist based in the San Francisco bureau, where she reports on technology start-ups and venture capital.</p><p><strong>Additional Information:</strong></p><p>New York City’s <a href="https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/travel/airbnb-new-york-city-laws-rentals-2950904e" target="_blank">new regulations for short-term rentals</a> go into effect soon.</p><p>Start-ups are on a “<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/16/technology/ai-gpu-chips-shortage.html" target="_blank">desperate hunt</a>” for GPUs. (There’s even a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGpnXANXGUg" target="_blank">song</a> about it.)</p><p>Creators are using A.I. voices to imitate <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHUPDaXLu7g" target="_blank">Freddie Mercury</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyfQVZHmArA" target="_blank">Johnny Cash</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rtnQuwCwhU" target="_blank">Eric Cartman</a> from “South Park,” and others.</p><p>Google and YouTube have <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/22/23841822/google-youtube-ai-copyright-umg-scraping-universal" target="_blank">different approaches</a> to compensating creators whose work is used to train A.I. tools.</p>