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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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