THE VERGE Tuesday January 17, 2023
As Twitter slashes staff and pares back moderation under Elon Musk, it may soon run into a problem it can’t ignore: its potential liability for copyright infringement, reports The Verge. The company faces a $228.9 lawsuit filed by celebrity photo agency Backgrid, which says that Twitter systematically failed to take down unauthorized copies of its pictures. Backgrid alleges it sent over 6,700 Digital Millennium Copyright Act notices to Twitter requesting the removal of its copyrighted photos, adds PetaPixel. Copyright is a rare exception to America’s expansive legal shields for social media platforms, notes TV.
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David Schonauer Tuesday January 17, 2023
Two years ago, on Jan. 5, 2021, OpenAI introduced DALL-E, a neural network that created images from text captions. Over the past year, such AI image generators-including DALL-E 2, Stable Diffusion and
Midjourney-have "the biggest thing to happen to images since the invention of photography," noted PetaPixel recently. "It doesn't feel like so long ago that we were first trying this research
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Vogue Monday January 16, 2023
Tatjana Patitz, one of the original group of famed supermodels who graced magazine covers in the 1980s and ’90s, died on Jan. 11 at age 56. A representative for her family stated that the cause of death was metastatic breast cancer, notes Vogue. Patiz was a favorite of fashion photographer Peter Lindbergh, who highlighted her in his famous 1988 photo “White Shirts: Six Supermodels, Malibu,” and for British Vogue’s 1990 cover. “Tatjana was always the European symbol of chic, like Romy Schneider-meets-Monica Vitti,” remembered Conde Nast’s Anna Wintour.
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The Guardian Monday January 16, 2023
What had started out as a “heavenly experience,” when Finnish photographer Sari Soininen first tried LSD at age 24 turned much darker and stranger as she became convinced that God was communicating directly with her. “He told me I should take more LSD in order to become connected to this revealed world,” she tells The Guardian. Soininen captures her acid-induced psychosis in her viscerally powerful new book, Transcendent Country of the Mind.“It’s more about what has stayed with me from that time,” she says.
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