Mashable Monday July 21, 2025
WeTransfer was forced to respond recently after changes to its terms of service triggered a backlash from users who believed the new language granted the service access to users' files to train AI. “We don't use machine learning or any form of AI to process content shared via WeTransfer, nor do we sell content or data to any third parties," a WeTransfer spokesperson told BBC News. The TOS changes seemed to imply that WeTransfer could use data and files from users to train AI models, either their own or that of a third party, notes Mashable.
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LensCulture Monday July 21, 2025
Today, photographers continue the tradition of portraiture while expanding its meaning — “capturing not just likenesses, but stories of resilience, identity, beauty, hardship, and hope,” notes LensCulture, which has announced the winners of its 2025 Portrait Awards. Top prize in the single-image category goes to Emily Neville Fisher of the U.S. for a photo of her grandsons sitting in a dusty 1967 Ford Mustang stored in a barn at the farm her husband spent his childhood.
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David Schonauer Monday July 21, 2025
The best thing that's ever happened to professional photography might just be AI. Wait, what? "Wedding photographers are having panic attacks about AI-generated couple portraits. Commercial shooters
are watching clients marvel at ChatGPT's ability to conjure product shots from thin air. The doom-scrolling is real, and it's getting exhausting," noted Digital Photo World recently. But, added the
site, there's a way to protect your … Read the full Story >>
The New York Times Friday July 18, 2025
Whenever Nikki Igol’s friends visited her Brooklyn apartment, they would get lost in her collection of 2,500 magazines and art books that she had been building since childhood. Now, with Steven Chaiken, with whom she once worked at the fashion magazine V, Igol has launched Library180, a magazine “nirvana” that, notes The New York Times, is open to anyone who wants to come by, though visits are by appointment only. The repository of print is located in a corner suite on the 26th floor of 180 Maiden Lane, a building in Manhattan’s Financial District.
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