TechCrunch Wednesday December 4, 2024
A group of appears to have leaked access to Sora, OpenAI’s video generator, in protest of what it’s calling duplicity and “art washing” by Open AI. The leak seems to have come from early Beta testers who are annoyed by what they call “unpaid R&D and PR,” notes PetaPixel.The group published a project on the AI dev platform Hugging Face seemingly connected to OpenAI’s Sora API, which isn’t yet publicly available. Using their authentication tokens — presumably from an early access system — the group created a front end that lets users generate videos with Sora, reports TechCrunch.
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David Schonauer Wednesday December 4, 2024
"For most of my life, my father was nothing more than a cut-out in our family album. An empty hole. A reminder of what wasn't there," notes photographer Diana Markosian. When she was seven,
Markosian's life changed abruptly: Her mother decided to leave Moscow for a new life in Santa Barbara, California, bringing her young daughter and son along, and leaving their father behind. … Read the full Story >>
DIYPhotography Tuesday December 3, 2024
Come December, there’s plenty of night for night sky photography, and DIY Photography has rounded up some of the celestial things to look for. Among them are a “galore of planets” and a couple of meteor showers: the Geminid meteor shower (Dec. 13-14) and the Ursid meteor shower (Dec. 21-22). On Dec, 7, look for the “King of the Planets,” Jupiter, when it reaches its closest approach to Earth.
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The Athletic Tuesday December 3, 2024
More than 125 years ago, Erwin Barbour, a geology professor at the University of Nebraska, took an interest in the proliferation of creative and inexpensive homemade windmills on farms across Nebraska, often used to pump water for irrigation and livestock. He documented this phenomenon, traveling the state, photographing the mills, interviewing their inventors and owners, and estimating the costs and benefits. During a recent visit to the U.S. National Archives, The Atlantic’s Alan Taylor digitized images from an 1898 photo album.
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