Enlarge / A selection of male and female “Magic Avatars” generated by the Lensa AI app, including a beard cannot be contained. Benj Edwards / Ars Technica reader comments 50 with 0 posters participating Share this story Over the past week, the smartphone app Lensa AI has become a popular topic on social media because… Read More »
Enlarge / An unmarked AI-generated image of China’s flag, which will be illegal in China after January 10, 2023. Ars Technica reader comments 29 with 0 posters participating Share this story China’s Cyberspace Administration recently issued regulations prohibiting the creation of AI-generated media without clear labels, such as watermarks—among other policies—reports The Register. The new… Read More »
Enlarge / This is John. He doesn’t exist. But AI can easily put a photo of him in any situation we want. And the same process can apply to real people with just a few real photos pulled from social media. Benj Edwards / Ars Technica reader comments 103 with 0 posters participating Share this… Read More »
Enlarge / An AI-generated watercolor illustration, now eligible for inclusion in Adobe Stock. Benj Edwards / Ars Technica reader comments 41 with 0 posters participating Share this story On Monday, Adobe announced that its stock photography service, Adobe Stock, would begin allowing artists to submit AI-generated imagery for sale, Axios reports. The move comes during… Read More »
Enlarge / Two examples of Stable Diffusion-generated artwork provided by Apple. reader comments 44 with 0 posters participating Share this story On Wednesday, Apple released optimizations that allow the Stable Diffusion AI image generator to run on Apple Silicon using Core ML, Apple’s proprietary framework for machine learning models. The optimizations will allow app developers… Read More »
Enlarge / An example of Disney’s FRAN age-changing AI that shows the original image on the left and re-aged rows of older (top, at age 65) and younger (lower, at age 18) examples of the same person. reader comments 60 with 0 posters participating Share this story Disney researchers have created a new neural network… Read More »
Enlarge / A poison dart frog rendered as a 3D model by Magic3D. reader comments 58 with 0 posters participating Share this story On Friday, researchers from Nvidia announced Magic3D, an AI model that can generate 3D models from text descriptions. After entering a prompt such as, “A blue poison-dart frog sitting on a water… Read More »
Enlarge / DreamUp AI image generator artwork proved by DeviantArt. reader comments 74 with 0 posters participating Share this story On Friday, the online art community DeviantArt announced DreamUp, an AI-powered text-to-image generator service powered by Stable Diffusion. Simultaneously, DeviantArt launched an initiative that ostensibly lets artists opt out of AI image training but also… Read More »
Enlarge / Generating AI images using “Draw Things” on the iPhone. Benj Edwards / Apple reader comments 21 with 0 posters participating Share this story On Wednesday, a San Francisco-based developer named Liu Liu released Draw Things: AI Generation, a free app available in the App Store that lets iPhone owners run the popular Stable… Read More »
Enlarge / Eight images we generated with the alpha version of Midjourney v4. Ars Technica reader comments with 0 posters participating Share this story On Saturday, AI image service Midjourney began alpha testing version 4 (“v4”) of its text-to-image synthesis model, which is available for subscribers on its Discord server. The new model provides more… Read More »