Tag Archives: image synthesis

China’s most advanced AI image generator already blocks political content

Enlarge / Images generated by ERNIE-ViLG from the prompt “China” superimposed over China’s flag. Ars Technica reader comments 13 with 11 posters participating Share this story China’s leading text-to-image synthesis model, Baidu’s ERNIE-ViLG, censors political text such as “Tiananmen Square” or names of political leaders, reports Zeyi Yang for MIT Technology Review. Image synthesis has… Read More »

Flooded with AI-generated images, some art communities ban them completely

Enlarge / An assortment of robot portraits generated by Stable Diffusion as found on the Lexica search engine. reader comments 192 with 79 posters participating Share this story Confronted with an overwhelming amount of artificial-intelligence-generated artwork flooding in, some online art communities have taken dramatic steps to ban or curb its presence on their sites,… Read More »

With Stable Diffusion, you may never believe what you see online again

Enlarge / Did you know that Abraham Lincoln was a cowboy? Stable Diffusion does. Benj Edwards / Stable Diffusion reader comments 229 with 127 posters participating, including story author Share this story AI image generation is here in a big way. A newly released open source image synthesis model called Stable Diffusion allows anyone with… Read More »

AI wins state fair art contest, annoys humans

Enlarge / The winning entry, Théåtre D’opéra Spatial. Jason Allen reader comments 233 with 142 posters participating Share this story A synthetic media artist named Jason Allen entered AI-generated artwork into the Colorado State Fair fine arts competition and announced last week that he won first place in the Digital Arts/Digitally Manipulated Photography category, Vice… Read More »