PetaPixel Tuesday December 17, 2024
Polish billionaire Rafal Brzoska says he has won his court battle against Meta over the use of his image in AI-generated deepfake ads. Brzoska, the billionaire founder and CEO of parcel company InPost SA, took legal action against Meta after discovering deepfake ads using images of him and his wife Omena Mensah on Facebook in Poland, notes PetaPixel. In August, Poland’s Personal Data Protection Office imposed a three-month ban blocking Meta from publishing deepfake ads using images of Brzoska and Mensah. However, Brzoska later said the ban had not stopped new deepfake images of him and his wife from surfacing.
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Aperture Tuesday December 17, 2024
The evolution of photography is bound to an evolution of technology. Along the way, the field has found itself at various crossroads that reset the rules of engagement—and right now, note the editors of Aperture magazine, the medium is at one of those inflection points. Artificial intelligence has inspired panic, excitement, skepticism—and much hyperbole—but it’s here. Aperture explores the transformation nature of AI in its Winter 2024 issued, titled "Image Worlds to Come: Photography & AI."
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Nieman Lab Tuesday December 17, 2024
Short vertical videos, a staple of Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, are increasingly making their way on to news sites, notes Nieman Lab. The format is a hit with audiences — the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism reported earlier this year that 66 percent of respondents in its global survey watch short news videos every week — but more than two-thirds of that viewing still takes place on social platforms, not publisher websites. Publishers are trying to change that.
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David Schonauer Tuesday December 17, 2024
More than a decade ago, rapper and producer Tyler the Creator was standing on the sidewalk with his fellow Odd Future members following a show in East Los Angeles when Brick Stowell, a young
photographer, walked by wearing a covetable Supreme jersey. The nascent star flexed his celebrity muscles and asked Stowell for the jersey point-blank. "He kept insisting," recalls Stowell, who seized
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