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Just one week after Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales, apologized for editing a photo of herself and her children on Mother’s Day, the UK royal family is in hot water again over another family portrait—which coincidentally is connected to Middleton.Getty Images Wants AI to Stop Copying ThemGetty Images, one of the world’s largest photo agencies, alerted the public to the second manipulated image on Monday when it placed an editor’s note on a photo of the late Queen Elizabeth II surrounded by her grandchildren and…

Today, December 5, was an important day in the artificial intelligence space. Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar met social media platforms to review progress made by them in tackling the issue of deepfakes, and misinformation in general. New advisories for compliance are expected to be released. Meta Platforms and IBM have joined an AI alliance with 40 other organizations to create an industry group dedicated to open-source AI work, aiming to share technology and reduce risks. This and more in today's AI roundup. Let…

Deloitte’s 2024 Technology, Media and Telecommunications Predictions report released on Nov. 29 analyzes what the future of tech might look like over the next year. Featured topics include sustainability, artificial intelligence’s prevalence, the impact of cloud sovereignty and changes in the smartphone industry; in particular, the report focuses on how generative AI might change the shape of the semiconductor industry, with specialized generative AI chips potentially making up half of the value of all…

With each day passing, we are seeing more generative AI platforms being introduced. As these tools are made easily accessible the competition within the market has grown with competitors like Midjourney and Adobe. Keeping the ever-growing user demand in mind, Stability AI has launched its improved version of the image generation model, Stable Diffusion XL 1.0. The company claims that the current model is its most advanced offering in the segment. However, there are some ethical issues still persistent in the…

Photo: J. David Ake (AP)Getty Images Wants AI to Stop Copying ThemShortly after rumors leaked of former President Donald Trump’s impending indictment, images purporting to show his arrest appeared online. These images looked like news photos, but they were fake. They were created by a generative artificial intelligence system.Generative AI, in the form of image generators like DALL-E, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion, and text generators like Bard, ChatGPT, Chinchilla and LLaMA, has exploded in the public sphere. By…

When Jason Allen won the digital-art competition at the Colorado State Fair last year, he sprayed fuel on a debate about the role of artificial intelligence in the art world. Now the Pueblo-based game designer, who created his award-winning piece “Théâtre D’opéra Spatial” using the AI software Midjourney, is exploiting his fame as an AI-art poster child to launch a campaign to legally protect AI works. “The U.S. Copyright Office rejected my copyright registration (for the image), so after some back and forth, I’ve hired a…

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I asked the robot to draw a picture of a robot drawing a picture of a robot. It didn’t go great. Image: Shutterstock AI (Shutterstock)Shutterstock, one of the internet’s biggest sources of stock photos and illustrations, is now offering its customers the option to generate their own AI images. In October, the company announced a partnership with OpenAI, the creator of the wildly popular and controversial DALL-E AI tool. Now, the resultsof that deal are in beta testing and available to all paying Shutterstock users. The…

This was presumably drawn by a human being.Illustration: sizsus art (Shutterstock)To build an AI art generator, engineers train their algorithms on large databases of photos, drawings or graphics. A lot of the most popular AI art tools got their databases by scraping content from the web, often without explicit permission from the artists who created images. Now the artists are asking: Did the algorithms violate copyright law?The courts don’t have an answer, but they will soon. The AI art industry now faces two…

Photo: Stefani Reynolds (Getty Images)Shutterstock’s leaning all the way into AI generated stock photos and wants to throw a bone to the measly meat bags that made it possible.In the coming months, the stock image giant says it will expand its relationship with OpenAI to provide its users “direct access” to the wildly popular DALLE-2 text to image AI model. In effect, that means the two companies will work together to sell AI generated art trained, in part, from human produced Shutterstock stock images. Go ahead and…