The Washington Post Monday April 17, 2023
Rapid advances in AI-image generators like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion have gained global attention in recent weeks for their inventive art pieces and impressive fakes of ex-presidents and popes. But the tech may also be ushering in a new wave of porn and related scams. By allowing anyone to create images of fake people that look uncannily real, the tools are reshaping how porn is made and consumed, notes The Washington Post. One big question: Will porn consumers care if the models they’re looking at aren’t real?
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THE VERGE Monday April 17, 2023
Microsoft had added OpenAI’s DALL-E generative artificial intelligence (AI) into Edge, making it the first and only browser that has an integrated AI image generator, notes PetaPixel. The “Image Creator” will live in Edge’s sidebar, and using it should be pretty simple, adds The Verge: You type in what you want to see, and Bing will generate several images that match the prompt. Then, you can download the ones you like and use them however you need. Microsoft pitches the feature as a way to create “very specific” visuals when you're working on social media posts or slideshows and documents.
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The Atlantic Monday April 17, 2023
California’s historically wet winter has led to an explosion of blooming wildflowers across many of its hills and valleys this spring. Visitors have been traveling to state parks and reserves to take in the views of this latest “superbloom,” notes The Atlantic, which features images from around the state—including an explosion of poppies near the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve, in Lancaster, as documented by Marcio Jose Sanchez (AP) and sky lupines near Wheeler Ridge, California, as seen by David McNew (Getty).
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THE VERGE Monday April 17, 2023
Leica’s newly launched M11 Monochrom is the new offshoot of last year’s 60-megapixel M11 and the company’s fifth digital camera to shoot only black and white. The M11 Monochrom can shoot in three resolutions—60, 36, or 18 megapixels—and shoots to JPEG and DNG RAW with an expanded ISO range of 125 to 200,000, notes PetaPixel. Besides the $9,195 camera, there’s a new Summilux-M 50mm f/1.4 ASPH. lens that focuses closer and has more aperture blades than the current model. The lens sells for $4,495 in black or $4,795 in silver, adds The Verge.
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