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 / 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 / Variations of “a photo of a happy corgi puppy with fancy sunglasses on sitting and facing forward, studio light, longshot” generated by OpenAI’s DALL-E. reader comments 24 with 22 posters participating Share this story On Thursday, OpenAI announced the introduction of an API for its DALL-E image synthesis model that will allow developers… Read More »
Enlarge / “Sarah” from Virtua Fighter gets an AI makeover thanks to Stable Diffusion and a fan named Colin Williamson. reader comments 36 with 32 posters participating Share this story In 1993, Sega’s Virtual Fighter arcade game broke new ground with fully 3D polygonal graphics, a first for a fighting game. Thanks to a Twitter… Read More »
Enlarge / These jagged, colorful blocks are exactly what the concept of image compression looks like. Benj Edwards / Ars Technica reader comments 31 with 29 posters participating, including story author Share this story Last week, Swiss software engineer Matthias Bühlmann discovered that the popular image synthesis model Stable Diffusion could compress existing bitmapped images… Read More »