Enlarge / An AI-generated photo of Pope Francis wearing a puffy white coat that went viral on social media. reader comments 75 with Share this story Over the weekend, an AI-generated image of Pope Francis wearing a puffy white coat went viral on Twitter, and apparently many people believed it was a real image. Since… Read More »
Enlarge / An Adobe Firefly AI image generator example. reader comments 125 with Share this story On Tuesday, Adobe unveiled Firefly, its new AI image synthesis generator. Unlike other AI art models such as Stable Diffusion and DALL-E, Adobe says its Firefly engine, which can generate new images from text descriptions, has been trained solely… Read More »
Enlarge / An example of lighting and skin effects in the AI image generator Midjourney v5. reader comments 140 with Share this story On Wednesday, Midjourney announced version 5 of its commercial AI image synthesis service, which can produce photorealistic images at a quality level that some AI art fans are calling creepy and “too… Read More »
Enlarge / The cover of “Zarya of the Dawn,” a comic book created using Midjourney AI image synthesis in 2022. Kris Kashtanova reader comments 174 with Share this story On Tuesday, the US Copyright Office declared that images created using the AI-powered Midjourney image generator for the comic book Zarya of the Dawn should not… Read More »
Enlarge / Jos Avery uses Midjourney, an AI image synthesis model, to create images that he then retouches and posts on Instagram as “photos.” reader comments 53 with Share this story With over 26,000 followers and growing, Jos Avery’s Instagram account has a trick up its sleeve. While it may appear to showcase stunning photo… Read More »
Enlarge / An image from Stable Diffusion’s training set compared (left) to a similar Stable Diffusion generation (right) when prompted with “Ann Graham Lotz.” Carlini et al., 2023 reader comments 109 with 0 posters participating Share this story On Monday, a group of AI researchers from Google, DeepMind, UC Berkeley, Princeton, and ETH Zurich released… Read More »
Enlarge / Excerpt of a 1923 cartoon that predicted a “cartoon dynamo” and “idea dynamo” that could create cartoon art automatically. The full cartoon is reproduced below. reader comments 52 with 0 posters participating Share this story In 1923, an editorial cartoonist named H.T. Webster drew a humorous cartoon for the New York World newspaper… Read More »
Enlarge / AI image synthesis advances in 2022 have made images like this one possible, which was created using Stable Diffusion, enhanced with GFPGAN, expanded with DALL-E, and then manually composited together. Benj Edwards / Ars Technica reader comments 41 with 0 posters participating Share this story More than once this year, AI experts have… Read More »
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a fictional time traveler named Stelfie during the construction of the pyramids. reader comments 51 with 0 posters participating Share this story Throughout December, a social media user known as Stelfie the Time Traveller has been crafting a time-hopping travelogue using generative AI. Thanks to Stable Diffusion and fine-tuning,… Read More »
Enlarge / A screenshot of the “Trending” page on ArtStation from December 14, 2022. It shows anti-AI protest images added by artists across the site. ArtStation reader comments 255 with 0 posters participating Share this story On Tuesday, members of the online community ArtStation began widely protesting AI-generated artwork by placing “No AI Art” images… Read More »