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State of the Art: New AI Firms Are Claiming to Offer Hyper-Accurate Deepfake Detection

The Washington Post   Thursday May 16, 2024

In a world desperate not to be fooled by artificial intelligence, a growing segment of tech start-ups are pitching themselves as a bulwark against the flood of fake content, notes The Washington Post. Among them is Deep Media, a Bay Area start-up that claims it can identify AI-created images, audio and video with 99 percent accuracy. The company has won at least five military contracts worth nearly $2 million since late 2022, but The Post’s  review of employee LinkedIn profiles suggests it has no PhDs, AI specialists or forensic scientists on staff.   Read the full Story >>

Honor Roll: The Longlist for the 2024 Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Awards

By David Schonauer   Thursday May 16, 2024

The Holocaust; contemporary space exploration; Bulgarian communism; African fashion; the women of a remote Afro-Mexican village. Those are some of the topics of the 20 longlisted titles for the 39th edition of the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards, the UK's leading prize celebrating excellence in photography and moving image publishing. Following the longlist announcement, six shortlisted publications--three in the Photography category and three in the Moving …   Read the full Story >>

Addendum: Was Peter Parker a Good Photographer?

CBR   Wednesday May 15, 2024

We all know that Peter Parker did some extraordinary things in his guise as Spider-Man. But was he good at his day job as a news photographer? The question, asked by comics and movie site CBR, may be of interest to real photographers. Spider-Man creators Steve Ditko and Stan Lee decided to make Peter Parker a photographer early on, in “Amazing Spider-Man #2,” notes CBR, and the talented young man went on to be nominated for a "News Photographer of the Year" award in 1974. But his ethics were questionable: He once apparently faked photos of battles he forgot to document.   Read the full Story >>

Art News: What to Look For at Photo London

The Guardian   Wednesday May 15, 2024

The Photo London  art fair kicks off tomorrow and runs through May 19 at Somerset House, and The Guardian has some highlights. Among them: British photographer Sian Davey’s exquisite series “The Garden," from the Michael Hoppen Gallery. (See our post  about the work.) There are also splashy still lives from Cihan Öncü (Dirimart, Istanbul);  Chloé Jafé’s scintillating “objects of intimacy” (Galerie Echo 119, Paris); and Steven Meisel’s  famed images of supermodel Linda Evangelista (Stehmann Fine Art, Munich/Art + Commerce).   Read the full Story >>

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