Enlarge / Variations of “a photo of a happy corgi puppy with fancy sunglasses on sitting and facing forward, studio light, longshot” generated by OpenAI’s DALL-E. reader comments 24 with 22 posters participating Share this story On Thursday, OpenAI announced the introduction of an API for its DALL-E image synthesis model that will allow developers… Read More »
Enlarge / The Shutterstock logo over an image generated by DALL-E. Shutterstock / OpenAI reader comments 42 with 34 posters participating Share this story Today, Shutterstock announced that it has partnered with OpenAI to provide AI image synthesis services using the DALL-E API. Once the service is available, the firm says it will allow customers… Read More »
Enlarge / A preview of Microsoft Designer’s AI text-to-image feature, which can generate images from written prompts. reader comments 31 with 23 posters participating, including story author Share this story During a Surface press event today, Microsoft announced integrations of AI-powered image-generation technology into its Bing search engine, Edge browser, and a new Office app… Read More »
Still from “A teddy bear washing dishes,” as generated by Google Imagen Video. reader comments 59 with 49 posters participating Share this story Today, Google announced the development of Imagen Video, a text-to-video AI mode capable of producing 1280×768 videos at 24 frames per second from a written prompt. Currently, it’s in a research phase,… Read More »
Enlarge / “Sarah” from Virtua Fighter gets an AI makeover thanks to Stable Diffusion and a fan named Colin Williamson. reader comments 36 with 32 posters participating Share this story In 1993, Sega’s Virtual Fighter arcade game broke new ground with fully 3D polygonal graphics, a first for a fighting game. Thanks to a Twitter… Read More »
Enlarge / Still image from an AI-generated video of a teddy bear painting a portrait. reader comments 79 with 58 posters participating Share this story Today, Meta announced Make-A-Video, an AI-powered video generator that can create novel video content from text or image prompts, similar to existing image synthesis tools like DALL-E and Stable Diffusion.… Read More »
Enlarge / An excerpt from the AI-assisted comic book Zarya of the Dawn, which received a US copyright registration. reader comments 35 with 27 posters participating Share this story In what might be a first, a New York-based artist named Kris Kashtanova has received US copyright registration on their graphic novel that features AI-generated artwork,… Read More »
Enlarge / A selection of Stable Diffusion images with a strikeout through them. Ars Technica reader comments 60 with 42 posters participating Share this story Getty Images has banned the sale of AI generative artwork created using image synthesis models such as Stable Diffusion, DALL-E 2, and Midjourney through its service, The Verge reports. To… Read More »
Enlarge / A selection of AI-generated artwork that can be licensed through Shutterstock. Shutterstock.com reader comments 49 with 39 posters participating Share this story Seeking ways to “monetize” AI-generated art, some artists have already begun submitting their AI-generated pieces to stock photography websites like Shutterstock. Searches for “AI generated” or “Midjourney” (a popular image synthesis… Read More »
Enlarge / An image of the “Have I Been Trained?” website featuring a search for one of its creators, Holly Herndon. reader comments 31 with 26 posters participating Share this story In response to controversy over image synthesis models learning from artists’ images scraped from the Internet without consent—and potentially replicating their artistic styles—a group… Read More »