tech radar Tuesday July 18, 2023
Shutterstock has revealed plans to boost business confidence in artificial intelligence by offering full indemnification to enterprise users, reports Tech Radar. The stock photo site will protect businesses from legal claims arising from images created with the site’s AI art generator. (The company confirmed that images will undergo human review.) The news follows a similar announcement from Adobe, which announced plans to introduce IP indemnity for businesses using its generative AI platform Firefly.
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The Bowdoin College Museum of Art Tuesday July 18, 2023
On view at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art through November 5 is the exhibition “People Watching: Contemporary Photography since 1965,” featuring more than 120 photographs by more than four dozen leading contemporary artists that explore the phenomenon of “people watching” as a recreational activity, an act of surveillance, a type of harassment, a sign of empathy, and a documentary form of expression. The show is a response to the covid pandemic and the social distancing that transformed people’s relationships to each other.
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CNN Tuesday July 18, 2023
Assault charges have been dismissed against an Oregon police officer who admitted to hitting a photographer in the head with his baton during a demonstration in the wake of George Floyd’s death in the summer of 2020, reports CNN. The officer, Corey Budworth, was charged after a viral video posted on social media showed him allegedly striking photographer Teri Jacobs. Last week, Budworth issued a video apology to the photographer, saying the force he used “could have been avoided,” notes NBC News.
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By
David Schonauer Tuesday July 18, 2023
What's scarier, a charging bear or a group of artists at the Vatican? The answer, of course, is the bear, but in either case a prayer would be in order. Today we take note of a group of wildlife
photographers in Alaska who made news by standing their ground while being charged by a brown bear. "Never run from a charging bear, even though … Read the full Story >>
