By
David Schonauer Friday July 26, 2024
AI companies are generally secretive about their sources of training data, but a recent investigation by Proof News found some of the wealthiest AI companies in the world have used material from
thousands of YouTube videos to train AI. Companies did so despite YouTube's rules against harvesting materials from the platform without permission. Proof's investigation, which was co-published at
Wired, found that subtitles from … Read the full Story >>
ARTnews Thursday July 25, 2024
Art history, visual and performing Arts, and graphic design majors nationwide have the bleakest employment prospects across all college majors in the United States, according to data analyzed by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for the first quarter of 2024. The NYFED also revealed that more than half of art history and arts majors are “underemployed,” meaning that they are working in fields that don’t require a college degree, notes ARTnews. The data is detailed in an online interactive chart that compares unemployment and underemployment rates.
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Harper's Bazaar Thursday July 25, 2024
Growing up in Syria, Amer Mohamad’s exposure to fashion was limited to what he saw on TV and in movies, but, notes Harper’s Bazaar, his interest was piqued when he got his first computer and could spending hours scrolling on Tumblr: “I would print fashion images and tape them to my wall,” Mohamad says. His first brush with photography was in the 6th grade when his father gave him a disposable camera. Now based in Dubai, he is a rising fashion photography star with more than 90 magazine cover credits,
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DroneDJ Thursday July 25, 2024
The Senate Armed Services Committee has released its version of the National Defense Authorization Act, which notably omits the demand to ban new DJI drones from entering the US market. The House passed its version of the bill last in June with provisions to stop the Federal Communications Commission from issuing new licenses to DJI over national security concerns. The Senate’s decision to exclude the ban reflects a more cautious approach toward the issue: The Chinese company’s drones are widely used across various sectors — including agriculture, infrastructure, and public safety — and a sudden prohibition could impede work in critical areas, notes DroneDJ.
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