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5 days, 6 hours ago

Botto, the Millionaire AI Artist, Is Getting a Personality

Wired

These images were created by an artist known as Botto, which exhibited at Sotheby's in New York this October and has made more than $4 million from sales of its work. Botto is a decentralized semi-autonomous artistic agent created in 2021 by the German artist Mario Klingemann; Simon Hudson, a media entrepreneur; and Ziv Epstein, a computer scientist and designer. …

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What is a dark comet? A quick guide to the ‘new’ kids in the Solar System

Raw Story

In 2017, NASA discovered and later confirmed the first interstellar object to enter our Solar System. While their nature and origins remain elusive, astronomers recently confirmed dark comets fall into two main categories: smaller objects that reside in our inner Solar System, and larger objects that remain beyond the orbit of Jupiter. Like bright comets, dark comets follow elongated, elliptical …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

Worried about AI? How to easily spot a deepfake image

The Independent

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Most people know you can’t necessarily trust every image you see online as AI editing tools can …

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3 months, 1 week ago

AI meets feminism

China Daily

Liu Siyi, the creator of the website. Tech integration Linking Gen Z culture with serious feminist knowledge became Liu's biggest challenge when designing her website. For example, one can engage in deep discussions on gender topics using the large language model Claude, conduct concept searches with BeingAI or Baidu's ERNIE Bot, find research papers on Google Scholar, or transform topics …

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3 months, 1 week ago

AI meets feminism

China Daily

The hero image for the "Gen Z x Gender Exploration Guide" website, generated using the AI tool Midjourney. Liu Siyi's innovative website combines her expertise in gender studies with AI technology to create a comprehensive and accessible resource for Gen Z exploring feminism and gender issues. Titled "Gen Z x Gender Exploration Guide", the website gathers over 200 high-quality resources, …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Child abuse images removed from AI image-generator training source, researchers say

The Hindu

Artificial intelligence researchers said Friday they have deleted more than 2,000 web links to suspected child sexual abuse imagery from a dataset used to train popular AI image-generator tools. One of the LAION-based tools that Stanford identified as the “most popular model for generating explicit imagery” — an older and lightly filtered version of Stable Diffusion — remained easily accessible …

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

A.I.-generated images on Midjourney show Donald Trump as president.

Slate

Who is the president of the United States? When I asked DALL-E, OpenAI’s text-to-image generator, to generate images of Joe Biden and Donald Trump, it flat-out refused, citing the company’s usage policy. The Midjourney community voted to prevent using ‘Donald Trump’ and ‘Joe Biden’ during election season.” Since June 2023, according to screenshots recorded on the Internet Archive, Midjourney’s community …

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54 years, 11 months ago

Adobe Says It Won’t Train AI Using Artists’ Work. Creatives Aren’t Convinced

Wired

When users first found out about Adobe’s new terms of service, there was an uproar. Adobe told users it could access their content “through both automated and manual methods” and use “techniques such as machine learning in order to improve Services and Software.” Many understood the update as the company forcing users to grant unlimited access to their work, for …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

After beating cancer, Konarak Reddy is all set for his upcoming concert, Bangalore 1974, which celebrates his 50-year journey in music.

The Hindu

There is a quiet vulnerability for an artist while revisiting their past creations, especially when life has reshuffled their perception of the world. We faced it together for a whole year,” he says over the phone from Bengaluru, ahead of his upcoming concert, Bangalore 1974, which celebrates half a century of his journey in music. That’s where I am now, …

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7 months, 1 week ago

How DeviantArt died: A.I. and greed turned a once-thriving community into a ghost town.

Slate

On March 27, a large group of artists and creators from across the web noticed the frightening extent to which a once-beloved, highly influential community platform of theirs had, like so many others, fallen prey to the artificial intelligence juggernauts plundering the internet. The sales weren’t exactly legit—an online artist known as WyerframeZ looked at those users’ followers and found …

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8 months, 4 weeks ago

Pakistani artist imagines how Disney princesses in 1950s South Asia would look like with AI. Seen them yet?

Hindustan Times

An artist named Hashim Ali from Pakistan was using an AI tool when a question popped up in his mind. He wondered how Disney Princesses would look if they were from South Asia. “If the Disney princesses were in 1950s South Asia. One of the pictures shows Cinderella fleeing from the stairs of a palace after the stroke of midnight …

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9 months, 1 week ago

AI image-generator Midjourney blocks images of Biden and Trump as election looms

Associated Press

Follow live: Updates from AP’s coverage of the presidential election. With the election in full swing, it’s time to “put some foots down on election-related stuff for a bit,” Midjourney CEO David Holz told several hundred members of the service’s devoted userbase in a digital office hours event Wednesday. Attempts by AP journalists to test Midjourney’s new policy on Wednesday …

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9 months, 1 week ago

Week in tech: Why everyone’s talking about the Nothing Phone 2a

Live Mint

Here's a look at what made news in the world of science and technology this week. Nothing unveils its next device – the Phone 2a Consumer electronics maker Nothing unveiled its much-anticipated new smartphone - the Nothing Phone 2a – on 5 March. February 2024 was globally the warmest on record: Scientists February 2024 was the warmest February on record …

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10 months ago

Google pauses its Gemini AI tool after critics blasted it as 'too woke' for generating images of Asian Nazis in 1940 Germany, Black Vikings and female medieval knights

Daily Mail

Google is pausing its new Gemini AI tool after users blasted the image generator for being 'too woke' by replacing white historical figures with people of color. In response to Google's announcement that it would be pausing Gemini's image generation features, some users posted 'Go woke, go broke' and other similar sentiments X user Frank J. Fleming repeatedly prompted Gemini …

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10 months, 1 week ago

How AI image-generators work

Hindustan Times

THE FLURRY of images generated by artificial intelligence feels like the product of a thoroughly modern tool. Today “generative AI ” models put brush to virtual paper: publicly available apps, such as Midjourney and OpenAI’s DALL-E, create images in seconds based on text prompts. The models behind image-generators are trained on enormous datasets: LAION-5B, the largest publicly available one, contains …

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10 months, 2 weeks ago

Generative AI faces major test as Indonesia holds largest election since boom

The Hindu

Fika Juliana Putri, a 19-year-old shopkeeper in East Jakarta, plans to vote in Indonesia's presidential election next week for a once-feared former special forces commander. Reuters interviewed 26 people to assess the use of AI technology in Indonesia's campaign, including political advisors, lobbyists, tech executives, experts, and artists creating generative AI images for politicians. The most desired characteristics among politicians …

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10 months, 2 weeks ago

Meta wants industry-wide labels for AI-generated images

New Indian Express

SAN FRANCISCO: Meta on Tuesday said it is working with other tech firms on standards that will let it better detect and label artificial intelligence-generated images shared with its billions of users. "It's not perfect; it's not going to cover everything; the technology is not fully matured," Meta head of global affairs Nick Clegg told AFP. While Meta has implemented …

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11 months, 1 week ago

AI is making mincemeat out of art (not to mention intellectual property)

LA Times

Ed Ruscha appeared on a list of artists whose work may have been used to train Midjourney. “Defendants seek to free-ride on The Times’s massive investment in its journalism,” that complaint states, in order to “ create products that substitute for The Times and steal audiences away from it.” There are other lawsuits, and Los Angeles Times tech columnist Brian …

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1 year ago

Column: This was the year of AI. Next year is when you should worry about your job

LA Times

The biggest story in tech this year was, without a doubt, the explosive ascent of AI. See, we’re nearing the end of the Year of Generative AI, and few of the companies working in the space have pieced together a promising way to turn the hype into profits. In October, the Wall Street Journal ran a report headlined “Big Tech …

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1 year ago

How AI is set to radically transform the way we holiday

The Independent

When it comes to AI in travel, films like I, Robot, and Blade Runner make it seem like we’ll soon be roaming the world in self-drive hovercrafts while humanoid robots man our hotel reception desks. Whether you’re visiting Montmartre’s La Maison Rose because it featured on the Instagram feed of a favourite influencer, or intriguing your TikTok followers with a …

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1 year ago

Meta's Standalone AI Image Generator Launched

ABP News

In response to Google's Gemini artificial intelligence model launch, Facebook parent Meta is introducing Imagine with Meta, a standalone generative AI experience on the web. The company will roll out invisible watermarking to the new imagine with Meta AI experience in the coming weeks, in a bid to increase transparency and traceability of AI-generated images. Like OpenAI's DALL-E, Midjourney, and …

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1 year ago

Video Shows How AI Can Simplify Animation And Filmmaking In Seconds

News 18

In the last two years, the world has seen an explosion of highly innovative AI-backed tools like ChatGPT, MidJourney, Stable Diffusion, and DALL·E. Earlier this week, a Reddit user posted a tutorial on the subreddit r/IndiaTech that showed how the Runway AI Gen-2 motion brush feature automatically adds hyperrealistic motion in static images. The video posted on the subreddit r/IndiaTech …

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1 year ago

Amazon takes on Adobe, Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, releases its own AI-powered image generator

Firstpost

Amazon has launched a new service called the Amazon Titan Image Generator, an AI image generator. The new innovative tool allows users to not only generate new images from text descriptions but also modify of existing ones using text In a groundbreaking move, Amazon Web Services announced the launch of the Amazon Titan Image Generator on Wednesday, entering the competitive …

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1 year, 2 months ago

A.I. May Not Get a Chance to Kill Us if This Kills It First

Slate

The brain that wrote your favorite novel consumed Dickens and Austen, Pynchon and Didion. Reuters argues that Ross’ product was simply “headnotes with question marks at the end,” as the judge recently summarized. “If your work is directly competing in the same market with the work that you’re using, that’s a huge factor weighing against fair use,” said Bob Brauneis, …

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Botto, the Millionaire AI Artist, Is Getting a Personality

What is a dark comet? A quick guide to the ‘new’ kids in the Solar System

Worried about AI? How to easily spot a deepfake image

AI meets feminism

AI meets feminism

Child abuse images removed from AI image-generator training source, researchers say

A.I.-generated images on Midjourney show Donald Trump as president.

Adobe Says It Won’t Train AI Using Artists’ Work. Creatives Aren’t Convinced

After beating cancer, Konarak Reddy is all set for his upcoming concert, Bangalore 1974, which celebrates his 50-year journey in music.

How DeviantArt died: A.I. and greed turned a once-thriving community into a ghost town.

Pakistani artist imagines how Disney princesses in 1950s South Asia would look like with AI. Seen them yet?

AI image-generator Midjourney blocks images of Biden and Trump as election looms

Week in tech: Why everyone’s talking about the Nothing Phone 2a

Google pauses its Gemini AI tool after critics blasted it as 'too woke' for generating images of Asian Nazis in 1940 Germany, Black Vikings and female medieval knights

How AI image-generators work

Generative AI faces major test as Indonesia holds largest election since boom

Meta wants industry-wide labels for AI-generated images

AI is making mincemeat out of art (not to mention intellectual property)

Column: This was the year of AI. Next year is when you should worry about your job

How AI is set to radically transform the way we holiday

Meta's Standalone AI Image Generator Launched

Video Shows How AI Can Simplify Animation And Filmmaking In Seconds

Amazon takes on Adobe, Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, releases its own AI-powered image generator

A.I. May Not Get a Chance to Kill Us if This Kills It First