NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Wednesday February 14, 2024
You can now see the trailer for National Geographic’s upcoming documentary series Photographer,which will stream on Disney+ and Hulu beginning on March 19. The six-episode series, created by Academy and Emmy Award-winning filmmakers E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, focuses on seven photographers across diverse genres, including conservation photographers Paul Nicklen and Cristina Mittermeier, editorial photographer Dan Winters, fashion photographer Campbell Addy, and travel-adventure photographer Krystle Wright.
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Wildlife Photographer of the Year Wednesday February 14, 2024
British amateur photographer Nima Sarikhani’s photo of a polar bear curled up on an iceberg off Norway’s Svalbard archipelago is the winner of this year’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice Award. “Whilst climate change is the biggest challenge we face, I hope that this photograph also inspires hope; there is still time to fix the mess we have caused,” Sarikhani noted in a press release. Organizers said more than 75,000 people voted in the competition — a record number, notes CNN.
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THE VERGE Wednesday February 14, 2024
OpenAI’s image generator DALL-E 3 will add watermarks to image metadata as more companies roll out support for standards from the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA). Mobile users get the watermarks this week, notes The Verge. The watermarks include both an invisible metadata component and a visible CR symbol, which will appear in the top left corner of each image. People can check the provenance — which AI tool was used to make the content — of any image generated by OpenAI’s platforms through websites like Content Credentials Verify.
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David Schonauer Wednesday February 14, 2024
Hollywood writers and actors proved that they could go toe-to-toe with powerful media conglomerates last year. After going on strike, they secured better pay, more transparency from streaming services
and safeguards from having their work exploited or replaced by artificial intelligence. But, note media experts David Craig and Stuart Cunningham, the future of entertainment extends well beyond
Hollywood. Social media creators -- otherwise known … Read the full Story >>
