The Hollywood Reporter Wednesday April 30, 2025
James Cameron, the Oscar-winning director of films like Avatar and Titanic, is cautiously optimistic about the role generative AI can play in filmmaking, notes The Hollywood Reporter. Speaking on the on Boz to the Future podcast hosted by Andrew Bosworth, the CTO of the Meta, Cameron speculated that generative AI could reduce the cost of making VXF-heavy blockbuster films by half. But, adds THR, he is wary of the “in the style of” prompts that have proliferated after images in the style of Studio Ghibli flooded the internet over the past few weeks.
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All About Photo Wednesday April 30, 2025
“Throughout the history of photography, women have often been seen through the lens rather than behind it,” notes All About Photo, whose 46th edition centers on women as the subject while celebrating the women who continue to shape the photographic landscape. AAP received over 1,700 submissions from photographers from 16 different countries across 5 continents exploring the theme, and now it has revealed the 25 winners—17 of them women photographers, whose images offer “vulnerability and strength, quietude and confrontation.”
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ARTnews Wednesday April 30, 2025
Fort Worth police have returned artworks by photographer Sally Mann seized by its forces from the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in January, reports Art News. “It’s important to celebrate the return of these works,” Elizabeth Larison, director of the National Coalition Against Censorship’s art and culture advocacy program, said in a statement, “because it brings the last bit of closure to a sensationalized and protracted investigation, and also because it represents the rightful check on the abuse of government power. Artistic freedom won, and artists can and should continue to exercise this right.”
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DIYPhotography Wednesday April 30, 2025
With generative AI rapidly reshaping how content gets made and shared, attribution has become even more important, notes DIY Photography, which reports that Adobe has launched a public beta of its Content Authenticity app, a free tool that allows photographers, artists, and other digital creators to embed Content Credentials directly into their files. The metadata is persistent, so it stays with your content even when it’s screenshotted or re-uploaded, adds DIYP. There’s a specific tag stating that the image is not to be used to train AI.
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