University of Waterloo Monday March 18, 2024
A new study from Canada’s University of Waterloo found that people had more difficulty than was expected distinguishing who is a real person and who is artificially generated. Researchers gave 260 participants 20 unlabeled pictures, 10 of which were of real people obtained from Google searches, and the other 10 generated by Stable Diffusion or DALL-E. Only 61 percent of participants could tell the difference between AI-generated people and real ones, far below the 85 percent threshold that researchers expected.
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Rangefinder Monday March 18, 2024
Now in its twelfth year, Rangefinder’s 30 Rising Stars of Wedding Photography feature spotlights photographers who have been working full time in the business for five years or less (as nominated by established industry photographers and tastemakers.) The annual listing represents “the next exciting generation of storytellers bringing fresh and unique style to wedding photography,” notes Rangefinder Content Director Arlene Evans. Among those on the list: New Orleans-based Darren & Shamakia Williams.
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PetaPixel Monday March 18, 2024
Photographer Larry Philpot has succeeded in his copyright lawsuit against a website that used his Creative Commons image without the proper credit, reports PetalPixel. In 2016, news website Independent Journal Review posted Philpot’s image of musician Ted Nugent in an article. Philpot had registered the 2013 photograph of Nugent with the U.S. Copyright Office as part of unpublished works. He also published the photo on Wikimedia Commons under a Creative Commons license that specified anyone could use the photo for free as long as they provided attribution to the photographer.
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Danielle Williams Monday March 18, 2024
A room-size computer equipped with a new type of circuitry, the Perceptron, was introduced to the world in 1958 in a brief news story buried deep in The New York Times. Invented by Frank Rosenblatt,
the electronic analog computer was a learning machine designed to predict whether an image belonged in one of two categories. This revolutionary machine arguably laid the foundations for today's … Read the full Story >>
