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State of the Art: Should AI Be Reined In? If So, How?

By David Schonauer   Tuesday May 23, 2023

In recent days PPD has spotlighted controversies over the use of AI-generated images by Amnesty International and other charities, as well as a political ad rolled out by the Republican National Committee created entirely with AI-generated imagery. Meanwhile, with the White House hosting tech leaders to discuss the dangers of AI, Google is promising radical changes to take on search-engine competitors in the AI …   Read the full Story >>

Social News: TikTok Tracked Users Who Watched Gay Content

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL   Monday May 22, 2023

For at least a year, some employees at TikTok were able to find what they described internally as a list of users who watch gay content on the popular app, a collection of information that sparked worker complaints, reports The Wall Street Journal. The app cataloged videos users watched under topics such as LGBT. The information included a set of users who watched the videos. The Journal notes that an unusual number of TikTok employees had access to the list, and that employees in China at times controlled access to the information. Employees based in in the U.S., U.K., and Australia, became concerned that possible leaks could put users at risk.   Read the full Story >>

Inspiration: The Joys of Large Format Landscape Photography

Ben Horne   Monday May 22, 2023

Large format landscape photography presents its own set of challenges and unique rewards, as you’ll see in a new video fromYouTuber Ben Horne, who takes you into a snow-covered Zion National Park — a place of quiet that seems appropriate for the slow and meditative process. “Even the smallest large format size, 4x5, is behemoth compared to the sensor sizes we are more accustomed to,” notes Fstoppers, which also has some thoughts on large-format photography.   Read the full Story >>

Exhibitions: Tim Walker's Fantastical World, at the Getty Museum

Getty Images   Monday May 22, 2023

Tim Walker’s images “can feel more like elaborate, otherworldly Renaissance paintings than pictures snapped through a fish eye lens,” notes W magazine, which recently previewed the exhibition “Tim Walker: Wonderful Things,” on view at Los Angeles’s Getty Museum through August 30. The exhibition, slightly different from an earlier hit show at London’s Victorian and Albert Museum, features a new series directly influenced by Walker’s research into the collections of the Getty  and the V&A.   Read the full Story >>

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