At a remarkable point in the long journey of humanity, the world became colorful. To be sure, the actual world had always been colorful, and the human eye had evolved to see that world in its many hues. But reality as represented in photographs, movies, and television was a largely monochromatic one until, roughly, the 1950s. Then everything changed. The eruption of color in … Read the full Story >>
Instagram has unveiled sweeping changes that will make the accounts of millions of teenagers private, enhance parental supervision and set messaging restrictions as the default in an effort to shield kids from harm. Meta said users under 16 will now need a parent’s approval to change the restricted settings, dubbed “Teen Accounts,” which filter out offensive words and limit who can contact them. Used by more than 2 billion people globally, Instagram has been under intensifying scrutiny over its failure to adequately address a broad range of harms, notes NPR. Read the full Story >>
It wasn’t until she became a mother that Olga Steinepreis dived into her own world of image making. She studied photography online, aiming to take photos of her first-born, then began making more conceptual images, notes It’s Nice that. In her ongoing series “I’ve had a dream…” Steinepreis, who was born in Russian and now lives in Germany, crafts composite images of herself and her family in which the many daily demands of motherhood and fantasies about her old (childless) life co-exist. Read the full Story >>
The Cyberspace Administration of China announced a draft plan that would require platforms and online service providers to label all AI-generated material with a visible logo and with metadata embedded in relevant files. The draft proposes that logos appear in several locations in a text, image, video, or audio file, notes The Register. The draft also stipulates that no organization or individual may maliciously delete, tamper with, forge, or conceal the required labels or violate the rights and interests of others through improper identification of AI-generated content, adds The South China Morning Post. Read the full Story >>
