The Hollywood Reporter Tuesday August 20, 2024
OpenAI has been sued by a YouTuber whose videos were transcribed and used to train its artificial intelligence system, opening a new front in the legal battle against companies leading development of the technology. The class-action lawsuit brought by David Millette in federal court in San Francisco builds off a report from The New York Times that OpenAI created of a speech recognition system called Whisper to transcribe audio from YouTube videos, with the aim of training the next version of ChatGPT, notes The Hollywood Reporter.
Read the full Story >>
By
David Schonauer Tuesday August 20, 2024
In 2016, Amy Sall, a writer, independent researcher, and collector-archivist based in New York, developed a university course called The African Gaze: Visual Culture of Post-Colonial Africa and
Social Imagination, which, she notes, combined her "passion for African artistic and cultural production." Sall's new book, "The African Gaze: Photography, Cinema and Power," is a byproduct of her
work. At a time when engagement with … Read the full Story >>
Digital Camera World Monday August 19, 2024
Can't get enough of the film photography lifestyle? TTArtisan has a new way for you to show your love for the 35mm format right atop your camera, notes Digital Camera World: a mini LED light shaped like a 35mm film canister. With a magnetic cold shoe attachment that slips into any standard shoe mount, the canister section of the LED light can easily be snapped on and off in a flash, and weighing in at only 20g, “you might not even notice the additional weight,” adds DCW, which pronounces the light “adorable.”
Read the full Story >>
DAZED Monday August 19, 2024
Fresh off her recent Bottega campaign starring A$AP Rocky, Carrie Mae Weems – the artist best known for her iconic Kitchen Table Series (1990) exploring themes of systemic racism and inequality – has unveiled a new billboard for Kamala Harris. Titled “Leading with compassion, not complaint,” the artwork features black-and-white images of Harris with the title as its caption, notes Dazed. The artwork is part of a series of commissions made as part of the Artists For Democracy campaign, which is co-chaired by Weems.
Read the full Story >>
