VentureBeat Thursday July 13, 2023
Adobe’s stock soared after a strong earnings report last week — where executives touted the success of its “commercially safe” AI image-generation platform Adobe Firefly. But, notes VentureBeat, a vocal group of contributors to Adobe Stock are not so happy. They say Adobe trained Firefly on their stock images without express notification or consent. The creators also say Firefly’s popularity is making it far less likely that users will purchase stock images. In other words, they believe Firefly is competing with them.
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David Schonauer Thursday July 13, 2023
The race is on to prevent what The New York Times recently called the "worst case scenario for machine learning"--the distribution of child sexual abuse material. The Washington Post agreed that
AI-generated child sex images are spawning a "new nightmare for the web," what one analyst called a "predatory arms race" on pedophile forums. Those are two of the articles we feature in today's … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Wednesday July 12, 2023
Mark Zilberman, a semi-professional photographer based in North Bergen, NJ, took a trip last summer to one of America's most favored photo locations: Coney Island. "It was riotous," he says. The
result of his visit was his image "Coney Island Romance," featuring a man and his snake. It is one of three entries to the American Photography Open 2023 contest singled out by our … Read the full Story >>
engadget Wednesday July 12, 2023
Unless you switch to a chronological timeline on Facebook, the things you see could seem arbitrary at times. But now, notes Engadget, Meta is pulling back the curtain to reveal how artificial intelligence decides what appears on your Facebook and Instagram feeds. The move, notes Nick Clegg, Meta’s President of Global Affairs, “is part of a wider ethos of openness, transparency, and accountability.” Meta’s AI systems, Clegg says, “predict how valuable a piece of content might be to you, so we can show it to you sooner.”
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