Enlarge / Stills from an AI-generated video of Will Smith eating spaghetti that has been heating up the Internet. reader comments 82 with Share this story Amid this past week’s controversies in AI over regulation, fears of world-ending doom, and job disruption, the clouds have briefly parted. For a brief and shining moment, we can… 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 / 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 / A computer-generated gavel hovers over a laptop. reader comments 130 with 0 posters participating Share this story Some artists have begun waging a legal fight against the alleged theft of billions of copyrighted images used to train AI art generators and reproduce unique styles without compensating artists or asking for consent. A group… 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 / An AI-generated image of a person leaving a building, thus opting out of the vertical blinds convention. Ars Technica reader comments 83 with 0 posters participating Share this story On Wednesday, Stability AI announced it would allow artists to remove their work from the training dataset for an upcoming Stable Diffusion 3.0 release.… 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 »
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 »