The Hollywood Reporter Tuesday October 24, 2023
A federal judge has found that Netflix could have defamed a Kentucky man whose picture was lifted from his social media for use in a documentary that allegedly implied he was involved in a murder. In the 2023 true crime documentary The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker, a photo of Taylor Hazlewood is shown, with audio saying “stone-cold killer” and captions stating, “You can never trust anyone.” He sued Netflix in April, claiming that pictures of him were taken without his knowledge from his Instagram account, notes The Hollywood Reporter. He said the use of the photos was defamatory because of the “sinister” context in which they were shown.
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Global Peace Photo Award Tuesday October 24, 2023
The winner of the Global Peace Photo Award–Peace Image of the Year 2023, worth €10.000 ($10,500) is Elrea Song of South Korea, for an image from her series “Combing Peace.” which depicts children retrieving trash from the sea. The Global Peace Photo Award recognizes and promotes photographers whose pictures capture human efforts towards a peaceful world and the quest for beauty and goodness. It is sponsored by Edition Lammerhuber in partnership with Photographische Gesellschaft, UNESCO, and the Austrian Parliament.
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Mashable Tuesday October 24, 2023
DALL-E 3, the latest version of OpenAI's AI image generator, recently became available to paying customers of ChatGPT (ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise customers). But the company placed what it called a “multi-layered safety system” on the new service that that limits its ability to generate what it called violent, hateful, or adult content. “That makes DALL-E 3 through ChatGPT extremely restrictive. If the AI even gets a whiff that you're up to no good, it will stop you dead in your tracks,” notes Mashable. PetaPixel reports that that guardrails have left users “frustrated.”
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Wonderful Machine Tuesday October 24, 2023
HEART 9/11 is a volunteer core of first responders that met in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Also known as the Healing Emergency Aid Response Team, the nonprofit's
mission is to respond immediately to natural and man-made disasters, to rebuild infrastructure in hard-hit areas, and to recover building resiliency for individuals, families, and communities in the
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