The New York Times Friday October 6, 2023
Social networking apps are beginning to integrate A.I. into their image capabilities to make their platforms more social—or at least more whimsical, notes The New York Times. Meta will now offer A.I. tools for its platforms, including Instagram, allowing users to generating photorealistic “stickers,” which can be shared. It will also introduce similar tools for editing and restyling existing images. Snapchat has announced Dreams, an A.I. imaging feature that lets users in Britain, Australia and New Zealand create “outlandish” selfies, while TikTok has rolled out in-app filters that use A.I. to transform selfies into the style of comic characters.
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The Guardian Friday October 6, 2023
“I entered into this zone of memory, of trying to understand what I witnessed. That in and of itself is an interesting process because I wept a lot.” So notes American war photographer Corinne Dufka in her new book, This Is War: Photographs from a Decade of Conflict,which brings together work from more than a decade on frontlines from El Salvador to Bosnia and Liberia. The focus of the book, as with most of Dufka’s work, is on those responsible for the killing or forced to live with its consequences, notes The Guardian.
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Associated Press Friday October 6, 2023
A man who attacked a police officer and a Reuters cameraman during the Jan. 6 riot has been sentenced to more than four years in prison. Shane Jason Woods, 45, was the first person charged with assaulting a member of the news media during the 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, notes AP. Woods, of Auburn, Illinois, took a running start and tackled the Reuters cameraman “like an NFL linebacker hunting a quarterback after an interception,” federal prosecutors wrote in a court filing.
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David Schonauer Friday October 6, 2023
A couple of years ago, in the days before art news was all about artificial intelligence, art news was all about non-fungible tokens, or NFTs. These digital collectables, which appeared suddenly amid
the vapor of the blockchain, were once vaunted as a revolution in art. Sadly, their inherent worth -- essentially people bought them in order to sell them at a higher price in … Read the full Story >>
