Daily LInks
1. Will the watch industry profit from going green? The luxury watch industry is in a unique position to grow its business by reducing its production while charging more for its products, but the momentum is clearly toward more production. – Read More on WatchPro
2. This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI. The tool, called Nightshade, could damage future iterations of image-generating AI models, such as DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion, by rendering some of their outputs useless—dogs become cats, cars become cows, and so forth. – Read More on MIT Tech Review
3. Why actors are fighting for AI protections. Advancements in AI that can replicate performers’ voices, appearances and movements raise critical concerns about individuals’ control over their own likenesses — and how lifelike replicas are used to generate profit or spread disinformation. – Read More on the Hill
4. Luxury slowdown further challenges Gucci revival. Shoppers in Europe and the United States are cutting down on high-end purchases, while the sector’s performance in China – a key growth engine – is complicated by record high youth unemployment and a property crisis. – Read More on Reuters
5. How a $100 Sweatshirt Is Taking on European Fashion Houses. Lorenzo has pulled this off by building not one collection, but three. There is his high-end main line; Essentials, the economical label built on $100 hoodies and $95 sweats; and the third and latest brand, Athletics, is a sportswear-focused line produced in partnership with Adidas. – Read More on the WSJ