THE VERGE Friday March 24, 2023
Adobe has announced a family of creative generative AI models called Adobe Firefly and has released its first two AI tools, including a text-to-image generator that works like DALL-E or Midjourney. Adobe is calling Firefly a beta, and the tools will be available only through a website. But the company plans to eventually integrate generative AI tools with its suite of creative apps, like Photoshop, Illustrator, and Premiere. Adobe also says everything its models are trained on is either out of copyright, licensed for training, or in the Adobe Stock library, notes The Verge.
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World Photography Organization Friday March 24, 2023
The winning and shortlisted entries in the 2023 Sony World Photography Awards Open Competition have been announced. The selected work comes from 10 categories—Architecture, Creative, Landscape, Lifestyle, Motion, Natural World & Wildlife, Object, Portraiture, Street Photography, and Travel. The Motion category winner is Steven Zhou for his shot “Slam on the Brakes,” which captions a dramatic moment in a rodeo barrel racing competition in Ontario, Canada,
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TechCrunch Friday March 24, 2023
Back in 2010, Hipstamatic was one of the most popular apps for early smartphone photography before it was superseded by Instagram’s vibrant social network. Now, notes The Verge, Hipstamatic is attempting a comeback, relaunching in the iOS App Store with new networking features similar to those that originally drove Instagram’s success. The new app is designed to answer rising complaints about Instagram: It doesn't have ads, but will have a chronological feed, rather than an algorithmic one, adds TechCrunch. Hipstamatic also limits users to following a max of 99 people, only nine of which can be designated as “close friends.”
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David Schonauer Friday March 24, 2023
The AI revolution is churning up legal questions that will shape the future of art: As we noted this week, the U.S. Copyright Office has determined that any images produced by giving a text prompt to
current generative AI models, such as Midjourney or Stable Diffusion, cannot be copyrighted. The Copyright Office equates such prompts to a buyer giving directions to a commissioned artist. … Read the full Story >>
