THE VERGE Monday January 22, 2024
YouTube is updating its cyberbullying and harassment policies and will no longer allow content that “realistically simulates” minors and other victims of crimes narrating their deaths or the violence they experienced. The update appears to take aim at a genre of content in true-crime circles that creates disturbing AI-powered depictions of victims — including children — that then describe the violence against them, notes The Verge. Some of the videos use AI-generated, childlike voices to describe gruesome violence that occurred in high-profile cases.
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Underwater Photography Guide Monday January 22, 2024
Suliman Alatiqi is the top prize winner in the 2023 Ocean Art Photo Competition for his image “Aquatic Anima”—a “rare glimpse” of a male crab-eating macaque swimming in waters near the Phi Phi Islands of Thailand. “The macaques have adapted very well to living around the sea and will venture into the water for various reasons including transportation, scavenging, cooling down and playing. Highly efficient swimmers, they can dive for up to half a minute and can cover short distances faster than most humans,” notes Alatiqi
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Adobe Monday January 22, 2024
“When it comes to storytelling in film and TV, diversity is crucial and ensures that audiences feel represented and heard.” So noted Adobe in announcing a new Adobe Film & TV Fund that aims to provide career support and growth to increase representation in film and television. The Adobe Film & TV fund is part of the Adobe Foundation and commits $6 million in support to improve representation in the industry “by providing resources, community, and support to underrepresented creators on-screen and behind the camera,” explains PetaPixel.
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David Schonauer Monday January 22, 2024
AI is a legal minefield. Generative AI models are often trained on copyright imagery and words created by actual humans, alarming many artists and writers, We recently reported on the release of a
database that allegedly contains a list of artists used to train the AI art generator Midjourney. Meanwhile, The New York Times has sued OpenAI, maker of the DALL-E image generator and … Read the full Story >>
