Kaptur Tuesday April 2, 2024
While discussions around AI training data often revolve around the unauthorized use of copyrighted content, it’s crucial to spotlight the companies paving the way for ethical data practices, notes Kaptur, which looks at four visual AI platforms trained on properly licensed content: Adobe Firefly; Getty Images; Shutterstock; and Bria.ai. “Notably, none of these platforms waited for legislation to implement their clean data approach. Instead, they proactively took steps to prioritize ethical AI development,” adds Kaptur.
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David Schonauer Monday April 1, 2024
In the 1950s and 1960s, transgender women and men who dressed as women found refuge at a modest house in the Catskill mountains of New York State. Known as Casa Susanna, it was a safe place for them
to be themselves, without fear of incarceration. Casa Susanna's underground existence became widely known only some 20 years ago, when two furniture dealers came across a … Read the full Story >>
People Monday April 1, 2024
Taylor Swift's father Scott Swift will not face charges from the Australian police after he was allegedly involved in an altercation with a photographer in February. The photographer, Ben McDonald, claimed that he had been taking photos of Swift during her Eras tour in Melbourne. McDonald filed a complaint with the police, but by then Swift's father had departed for the next stop on the Eras Tour. Australian police recently issued a statement saying they had "conducted an investigation following a report of an assault " and that there would be "no further police action" taken, notes People magazine.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art Monday April 1, 2024
The camera (and the person behind it) can turn everyday objects into covetable commodities, abstracting them from functional use through the use of dizzying perspectives and modulations of scale. So notes the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which features the exhibition “The Real Thing: Unpackaging Product Photography” through Aug. 4. The work on view, spanning the first century of photographic advertising, illustrates “how commercial camerawork contributed to the visual language of modernism,” notes the Met.
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