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State of the Art: Deepfake Deluge Expected from AI Image Breakthrough

VentureBeat   Thursday February 1, 2024

A new AI image generation method, called InstantID, can quickly recognize who someone is and generate new images based on a single image as a reference, according to a new paper  published by the InstantX team in Beijing. However, Reuven Cohen, an enterprise AI consultant for Fortune 500 companies who calls InstantID the “new state-of-the-art,” told VentureBeat the new technique has a big downside: It will foster a flood of deepfake audio, images, and video tools, just in time for the 2024 election.   Read the full Story >>

Photo History: The Strange Case of Hercules Florence, the 'Forgotten' Father of Photography

By David Schonauer   Thursday February 1, 2024

Last year was big for Hercules Florence, one of the pioneers of photography. Florence, an adventurer and inventor of French-Italian-Monegasque origin who settled in Brazil, was one of the first to permanently fix images onto paper using chemicals. His innovations preceded those of Louis Daguerre and Henry Fox Talbot, who have been widely credited as inventors of photographic technology. Conservation experts from Brazil, Portugal, …   Read the full Story >>

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