Business Insider Thursday October 20, 2022
The business world is apparently finding news and creative ways to use AI-generated imagery. Business Insider reports that some companies are using machine-made photos of employees who don't exist on their "about us" pages in an attempt to make their company look bigger. The use of AI to create “nonexistent people" online has proliferated in recent years, but usually are used as part of a scam or in a bid to influence elections, adds BI. On the other hand, companies are now developing software aimed at detecting fake images on company websites and elsewhere on the internet.
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Nikon Small World Thursday October 20, 2022
Science and art come together in the Nikon Small World contest—a celebration of photomicrography. The top prize this year goes to Grigorii Timin and Dr. Michel Milinkovitch of the University of Geneva’s Department of Genetics and Evolution for an image of the embryonic hand of a Madagascar giant day gecko (Phelsuma grandis). “This embryonic hand is about 3mm (0.12 in) in length, which is a huge sample for high-resolution microscopy,” Timin notes. “The scan consists of 300 tiles, each containing about 250 optical sections.”
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THE VERGE Thursday October 20, 2022
YouTube has ended the experiment that locked the ability to watch videos in 4K behind its $11.99 a month premium membership, reports The Verge. As we noted previously, the company caused a small uproar when it confirmed with a series of now-deleted tweets that some of its users were part of a test meant to explore “the feature preferences Premium & non-Premium viewers,” and asking users to provide feedback on the idea. The idea of having to pay to access higher resolution videos was a divisive one, adds TV.
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David Schonauer Thursday October 20, 2022
As we noted recently, Twitter has cloned Instagram Reels, which in turned was cloned from TikTok, because, as Gizmodo noted, "that's what everyone does now." Indeed, it's a copycat world. Meta
recently joined in on the craze for machine-made art by introducing an AI text-to-video content generator, followed shortly by Google, which revealed its own text-to-video AI-generated program, called
Imagen video. Meanwhile, TikTok announced … Read the full Story >>
