XXL Thursday February 22, 2024
A judge has ordered rapper Cam’ron (Cameron Ezike Giles) to pay a photographer $50,000 after he used a copyrighted photo of himself on his Dipset clothing line without permission, notes XXL. Photographer Djamilla Cochran sued the rapper for using the picture on merchandise without her permission last April. The photo in question is the well known shot of Cam’ron wearing a pink fur coat and headband while holding a matching flip phone. Federal Judge William Martini ruled that Cam’ron’s usage constituted copyright infringement.
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The Washington Post Thursday February 22, 2024
"It’s come time we acknowledge where photography really begins, which is in the mine,” notes photojournalist Louie Palu at The Washington Post. Palu’s series “Cage Call” looks at what he calls “the rarely discussed materiality of photography and Canada’s role in it.” His images examine the environmental effects of silver mining that supplied the substance needed to fix photographic prints that hang in museums around the world. The work was shown last year at the Image Centre in Toronto.
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VentureBeat Thursday February 22, 2024
Stability AI, the company behind the AI image generator Stable Diffusion, has previewed a new text-to-image generative AI technology model that promises to be more flexible and and efficient than the current generation of Stable Diffusion models. The new model, called Stable Cascade, could be the future of AI image generators, notes Venture Beat. Unlike Stable Diffusion, which uses a single large model, Stable Cascade utilizes a pipeline of three distinct smaller models referred to as Stages A, B and C. This modular architecture provides major advantages in training efficiency and customization.
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David Schonauer Thursday February 22, 2024
Nude deepfake images of Taylor Swift that spread widely across social media in late January are having widespread repercussions: The explicit images, which reportedly originated on the notorious 4chan
messaging board, helped prompt European officials to put forward legislation that would criminalize the sharing of such content across the European Union by the middle of 2027. Victims of explicit
deepfakes in Europe currently have … Read the full Story >>
