Enlarge / An AI-generated image from DALL-E 2 created with the prompt “A painting by Grant Wood of an astronaut couple, american gothic style.” reader comments 39 When OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 debuted on April 6, 2022, the idea that a computer could create relatively photorealistic images on demand based on just text descriptions caught a… Read More »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a “Beautiful queen of the universe looking at the camera in sci-fi armor, snow and particles flowing, fire in the background” created using alpha Midjourney v6. Midjourney reader comments 91 In December, just before Christmas, Midjourney launched an alpha version of its latest image synthesis model, Midjourney v6. Over… Read More »
Getty Images | Benj Edwards reader comments 0 “Here, There, and Everywhere” isn’t just a Beatles song. It’s also a phrase that recalls the spread of generative AI into the tech industry during 2023. Whether you think AI is just a fad or the dawn of a new tech revolution, it’s been impossible to deny… Read More »
Enlarge / Three images generated by “Imagine with Meta AI” using the Emu AI model. Meta | Benj Edwards reader comments 58 On Wednesday, Meta released a free standalone AI image generator website, “Imagine with Meta AI,” based on its Emu image synthesis model. Meta used 1.1 billion publicly visible Facebook and Instagram images to… Read More »
Enlarge / Example images generated using Stable Diffusion XL Turbo. Stable Diffusion XL Turbo / Benj Edwards reader comments 56 with On Tuesday, Stability AI launched Stable Diffusion XL Turbo, an AI image-synthesis model that can rapidly generate imagery based on a written prompt. So rapidly, in fact, that the company is billing it as… Read More »