reader comments 95 On Tuesday, the UK government announced a new law targeting the creation of AI-generated sexually explicit deepfake images. Under the legislation, which has not yet been passed, offenders would face prosecution and an unlimited fine, even if they do not widely share the images but create them with the intent to distress… Read More: New UK law targets “despicable individuals” who create AI sex… »
Benj Edwards reader comments 72 On Monday, Bloomberg reported that Apple is in talks to license Google’s Gemini model to power AI features like Siri in a future iPhone software update coming later in 2024, according to people familiar with the situation. Apple has also reportedly conducted similar talks with ChatGPT maker OpenAI. The potential… Read More: Apple may hire Google to power new iPhone AI features… »
Enlarge / A burglar with a flashlight and papers in a business office—exactly like scraping files from Discord. reader comments 35 On Wednesday, Midjourney banned all employees from image synthesis rival Stability AI from its service indefinitely after it detected “botnet-like” activity suspected to be a Stability employee attempting to scrape prompt and image pairs… Read More: Image-scraping Midjourney bans rival AI firm for scraping images »
Enlarge / A photo of “Willy’s Chocolate Experience” (inset), which did not match AI-generated promises, shown in the background. reader comments 126 On Saturday, event organizers shut down a Glasgow-based “Willy’s Chocolate Experience” after customers complained that the unofficial Wonka-inspired event, which took place in a sparsely decorated venue, did not match the lush AI-generated images… Read More: Cops called after parents get tricked by AI-generated images of… »
Enlarge / Stable Diffusion 3 generation with the prompt: studio photograph closeup of a chameleon over a black background. reader comments 62 On Thursday, Stability AI announced Stable Diffusion 3, an open-weights next-generation image-synthesis model. It follows its predecessors by reportedly generating detailed, multi-subject images with improved quality and accuracy in text generation. The brief… Read More: Stability announces Stable Diffusion 3, a next-gen AI image generator »
Enlarge / Generations from Gemini AI from the prompt, “Paint me a historically accurate depiction of a medieval British king.” reader comments 223 On Thursday morning, Google announced it was pausing its Gemini AI image-synthesis feature in response to criticism that the tool was inserting diversity into its images in a historically inaccurate way, such… Read More: Google’s hidden AI diversity prompts lead to outcry over historically… »
reader comments 77 On Friday, Bloomberg reported that Reddit has signed a contract allowing an unnamed AI company to train its models on the site’s content, according to people familiar with the matter. The move comes as the social media platform nears the introduction of its initial public offering (IPO), which could happen as soon… Read More: Reddit sells training data to unnamed AI company ahead of… »
Enlarge / Snapshots from three videos generated using OpenAI’s Sora. reader comments 172 On Thursday, OpenAI announced Sora, a text-to-video AI model that can generate 60-second-long photorealistic HD video from written descriptions. While it’s only a research preview that we have not tested, it reportedly creates synthetic video (but not audio yet) at a fidelity… Read More: OpenAI collapses media reality with Sora, a photorealistic AI video… »
Meta / Getty Images reader comments 8 On Tuesday, Meta announced its plan to start labeling AI-generated images from other companies like OpenAI and Google, as reported by Reuters. The move aims to enhance transparency on platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and Threads by informing users when the content they see is digitally synthesized media… Read More: Meta will label AI-generated content from OpenAI and Google on… »
Enlarge / Still images of AI-generated video examples provided by Google for its Lumiere video synthesis model. reader comments 45 On Tuesday, Google announced Lumiere, an AI video generator that it calls “a space-time diffusion model for realistic video generation” in the accompanying preprint paper. But let’s not kid ourselves: It does a great job… Read More: Google’s latest AI video generator can render cute animals in… »