THE VERGE Friday October 11, 2024
Meta has cut deals for high-profile actors to lend their voices to its Meta AI chatbot, among them actor Kristen Bell. And that, notes The Verge, is bit of a surprise: Back in June, Bell openly expressed opposition to Meta’s AI using her data. She reposted a popular Instagram message declaring that she refused to consent to Meta using her content and likeness for training large language models and demanding that Instagram “get rid of the AI program.” A June update to Meta’s terms of service allowed the company to use posts, images, and online tracking data to train its Llama 3 AI model.
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AnOther Friday October 11, 2024
The annual Hyères International Festival of Fashion, Photography and Accessoriesis underway in Hyères, France, with ten finalists selected by the photography jury, this year chaired by photographer Coco Capitán. AnOther spotlights four of them: Swiss-born and London-baed Kayla Connors; Arhant Shrestha, whose work is rooted in memories of his childhood in Kathmandu, Nepal; British photographer Thomas Duffield; and French photographer Basile Pelletier. The festival runs through October 2024.
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THE ART NEWSPAPER Friday October 11, 2024
Rankin Group, the advertising agency run by the British photographer, publisher and film director Rankin, has filed for bankruptcy, owing employees more than £300,000 and the UK tax authority more than £1 million. Rankin, who set up the agency five years ago, says the business did well in its first three years but then begun to struggle. “Whether it was due to reduced budgets around the economy or losing work to programmatic and AI-based solutions, it was a massively challenging period,” he says.
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Wildlife Photographer of the Year Friday October 11, 2024
Canadian photojournalist Shane Gross is the top winner of the 2024 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition for his image “The Swarm of Life”—a photo of western toad tadpoles that he captured while snorkeling for several hours through carpets of lily pads in Cedar Lake on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Judges said they were “captivated by the mix of light, energy and connectivity between the environment and the tadpoles,” notes CNN. This year’s contest drew 59,228 entries from 117 countries and territories.
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