The New York Times Wednesday July 26, 2023
ChatGPT doesn’t only write term papers. It can analyze images, too — describing what’s in them, answering questions about them and even recognizing specific people’s faces. And that, reports The New York Times, is causing some worries at OpenAI, the company behind the AI-powered chatbot. The company doesn’t want ChatGPT to become is a facial recognition machine, for legal and other reasons. OpenAI worried that the tool would say things it shouldn’t about people’s faces, such as assessing their gender or emotional state.
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New York Post Wednesday July 26, 2023
Mix Barbiecore and artificial intelligence and what do you get? A first-ever magazine cover shoot. Model Lisa Opie, a former Miss Virgin Islands from Miami, appears on the August cover of Glamour Bulgaria in an image that came about after Opie and her stylist Joey Rolon discovered an AI-generated image of a pink Barbie wearing a breastplate. Opie reached out to the women who created the image and asked if she could create a similar image of the model. The result: a fashion image created entirely with AI—no photo shoot involved.
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Associated Press Wednesday July 26, 2023
“Like most people around here, I talk about temperatures being in the teens as if it’s a given that people know to always put a one in front of that number. But this summer’s record-shattering heat wave has been like no other.” So notes Phoenix-based Associated Press photographer Matt York, who recently recounted what it has been like covering this summer’s heat wave in the Southwest — and the dangerous physical effects it has had on him. He now plans to limit himself to 30– to 40-minute windows of shooting before breaking to cool down.
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David Schonauer Wednesday July 26, 2023
In its first major exhibition of contemporary African photography, the Tate Modern in London reverses the Western gaze at Africa as it showcases the work of African artists using the camera on their
own terms. The exhibition, "A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography" (through Jan. 14, 2024) follows artists "across the many landscapes, borders and time zones of Africa to reveal how
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