VICE Tuesday February 21, 2023
Two developers have used OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 image-generation model to create a forensic sketch program that can create “hyper-realistic” police sketches of a suspect based on user inputs. Experts, notes Vice, are “horrified” by the possibilities. The developers, Artur Fortunato and Filipe Reynaud, say they are “still trying to validate if this project would be viable to use in a real world scenario or not.” AI ethicists and researchers say the use of generative AI in police forensics could worsen existing racial and gender biases that appear in initial witness descriptions.
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AP Tuesday February 21, 2023
At a cemetery in Irpin, a suburb of Kyiv, photographs affixed to headstones — a tradition in Ukraine — are almost imperceptible. Exposed to rain, sun and frost since the war began a year ago, the graveside portraits are fading away, along with the stories behind them, including those of an elderly man who froze to death under Russian occupation, a young man believed to have been tortured and hanged, and an elderly woman who died alone and afraid. AP photographer Emilio Morenatti has documented a number of the images.
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BBC Tuesday February 21, 2023
Scammers are using the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria to trick people into donating to fake causes. And, notes the BBC, they’re using fake images to carry out their cons. The news service points to a TikTok video showing a picture of a distressed child running from an explosion—an image also posted on Twitter in 2018 with the caption "Stop Afrin Genocide,” referring to a city in north-western Syria where Turkish forces and their allies in the Syrian opposition ousted a Kurdish militia. Another appeal featured an AI-generated photo of a firefighter holding a small child amid collapsed buildings.
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David Schonauer Tuesday February 21, 2023
When he died in 2013 at age 89, Saul Leiter was remembered by The New York Times as a photographer who captured New York City's colorful palette. Where photographers like Weegee and Diane Arbus
depicted the city in monochromatic tones, Leiter, declared The Times, "saw it as a quiet polychrome symphony -- the glow of neon, the halos of stoplights, the golden blur of … Read the full Story >>
