WHAS Thursday February 15, 2024
A Louisville man who fatally shot a photographer during a 2020 protest following the death of Breonna Taylor has been sentenced to 30 years in prison, reports WHAS. Police said Steven Lopez took a gun from a protestor and then shot into the crowd gathered at Jefferson Square Park on June 27, 2020. Photographer Tyler Gerth, 27, was fatally wounded in the shooting. Earlier this year, Lopez pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter and 22 counts of wanton endangerment.
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David Schonauer Thursday February 15, 2024
Fake, sexually explicit images of Taylor Swift likely generated by artificial intelligence spread rapidly across social media platforms recently, disturbing fans and reigniting calls from lawmakers to
crack down on the platforms and technology that spread such images. Meanwhile, the estate of the late George Carlin is suing over the January release of a special that uses generative artificial
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THE DAILY CALLER Wednesday February 14, 2024
Weeks after explicit, AI-generated images of Taylor Swift began circulating, the media is meditating on the DigniAI movement, which uses AI to put clothes onto women. The movement, notes PetaPixel, has emerged from the controversial messaging board website 4chan. with people using AI tools to add clothing to women’s pictures and even remove their tattoos. Some critics are calling it another way for anonymous internet entities to control women’s bodies. “I’m not exactly sure how slut shaming confident women is going to help bring dignity back to the internet,” writes Kay Smythe at the Daily Caller.
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BRUCE SILVERSTEIN Wednesday February 14, 2024
The city of Yangzhou, located in the Jiangsu Province in Eastern China, has a rich history of economic and cultural progress, and in 1996 the city’s mayor invited photographer Larry Silver and his wife Gloria come and document economic and cultural initiatives. Silver went on to capture the lived history of a rural city spanning over a decade, picturing multiple generations, from Chinese elders who witnessed the Cultural Revolution of 1966 to the newborn Gen Z. The work is on view now at New York's Bruce Silverstein gallery.
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