Sky News Thursday October 5, 2023
Tom Hanks has warned his 9.5 million Instagram followers not to fall for a dental plan advertisement that appears to use his face but which he says is using an AI version of him, without his authorization. He shared a still from the video, showing what looked like a young Hanks dressed in a suit jacket. Hanks has previously been vocal about the use of AI in the entertainment industry, notes Sky News. “We saw this coming,” he said in a podcast with British comedian Adam Buxton in April. “We saw that there was going to be this ability to take zeros and ones inside a computer and turn it into a face and a character.” Meanwhile, noted Mashable, YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson, aka MrBeast, has warned about a deepfake video using his likeness to advertise an iPhone 15 giveaway.
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David Schonauer Thursday October 5, 2023
Meta has revealed that it used public posts from Facebook and Instagram to train its new Meta AI virtual assistant, and the company apparently assumed the news would not go down well: A Meta spokesman
assured Reuters that private posts shared only with family and friends were excluded from the training material. Meanwhile, OpenAI, the company behind AI image generator DALL-E, is now offering … Read the full Story >>
The Eclipse Company Wednesday October 4, 2023
Are you ready for the solar eclipse on Oct. 14? The eclipse will cross North, Central, and South America and will be visible in parts of the United States, explains NASA. There’s also going to be a solar eclipse next April 8 that will cast a shadow across North America, notes DIY Photography. A new map created by The Planetary Society and The Eclipse Company will help photographers select the best location from which to see both. The map integrates details about cloud cover, light pollution, and eclipse duration, with information about viewing locations and lodging options, adds PetaPixel.
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KQED Wednesday October 4, 2023
“While pursuing my degree in photography at the San Francisco Art Institute in the 1990s, I began documenting a generation of young, self-identified queers in the Mission District,” notes photographer Chloe Sherman, adding, “The sense of community was palpable as a queer cultural renaissance unfolded.” KQED says her “colorful, intimate, impulsive and affectionate photos speak loudly for the wild, untethered souls in them, as well as the era they were living through.” The work is now collected in the book Renegades.
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