The Guardian Tuesday September 10, 2024
Only one in four registered voters have strong confidence in their ability to tell the difference between real and AI-generated visual content, according to new research. Responses to a poll on artificial intelligence in politics done by UK-based research firm Savanta also showed broad concerns among both Democrats and Republicans with AI’s influence over elections, notes The Guardian. Republican voters were less confident than Democrats in spotting AI deepfakes, the poll showed. Republicans were also more likely than Democrats to say it was not acceptable for political candidates to post AI-generated content without clearly labeling it.
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David Schonauer Tuesday September 10, 2024
At her website, Brooklyn-based photographer Winnie Au notes that she "loves mac and cheese, bicycles, french pressed coffee, basset hounds, and other long dogs." Indeed, dogs have been one of her
primary subjects as her career has developed. "I wanted to take a different approach to dog photography," she told one interviewer, adding, "I wanted to create a series that was elevating dogs." She … Read the full Story >>
Stand-up Maths Monday September 9, 2024
To explain film aspect ratios, the Stand-up Maths YouTube channel needed to “go back to a time when videos were actually filmed on film,” offering what may be the first YouTube video ever shot on 35mm film. The reason no one else has done this before? Shooting on film is expensive, for one thing. The video “is not only interesting because it clearly demonstrates what filming with 35mm film looks like, but it also describes different formats and explains how anamorphic lenses work on film,” notes Fstoppers.
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Billboard Monday September 9, 2024
“The way I like to shoot photos — as a photojournalist, as a documentary photographer — is capturing moments, capturing people as they are, trying to reveal personalities, trying to really tell a story,” Ed Rode says. Over the decades he has done just that, capturing country music legends like Porter Wagoner, Willie Nelson, George Strait, Bill Monroe, Dolly Parton and others, notes Billboard. The work is now collected in Rode’s book Songwriter Musician: Behind the Curtain With Nashville’s Iconic Storytellers and Players. There’s also an exhibition.
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