DIGIDAY Friday September 22, 2023
Generative AI may still be in a legal limbo, but one startup’s platform aims to solve some key copyright challenges facing companies, artists and researchers over AI-generated visual content, notes Digiday. Bria AI, an Israel-based AI image generator, has created new foundation AI models trained with licensed content from stock image powerhouse Getty Images and other sources such as content marketplaces like Alamy and Envato. Bria also developed an attribution model that can help researchers see how data sets — in this case specific photos — influence an AI model.
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The National News Friday September 22, 2023
Yemen was Nariman El-Mofty’s first war. “Everything was a shock,” the Egyptian photojournalist says of her introduction to conflict in 2018. “Hunger was very new to me. In Yemen, children starved silently,” she tells The National News. Her work there won her the first of her two Pulitzer Prizes. She won her second for her coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war in 2022, as part of an Associated Press team, and she’ll be traveling to New York In October to pick up her prize. War, she says, “touches you and becomes part of you.”
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DP Review Friday September 22, 2023
Almost six years after the announcement of the Lumix DC-G9, Panasonic is bringing out its successor, the Lumix DC-G9 II—the first-ever Lumix Micro Four Thirds camera to include phase detection autofocus, notes DP Review. Aimed at stills shooters, the new flagship camera features a new 25.2-megapixel Live MOS image sensor, a more powerful processor, a swift hybrid autofocus system with subject recognition technology, and burst shooting at up to 60 frames per second, adds PetaPixel.
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David Schonauer Friday September 22, 2023
For months, photographer Merrick Morton battled with Instagram as the platform repeatedly took down his photo archive depicting the lives of cholo and African American street culture in Los Angeles
during the 1980s. Then he was notified that his account would no longer be active, and with that, he lost more than 60,000 followers that he had cultivated for over five years. One of … Read the full Story >>
