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Your face for sale: anyone can legally gather and market your facial data without explicit consent

4Mar

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Your face for sale: anyone can legally gather and market your facial data without explicit consent

[ad_1] The morning started with a message from a friend: “I used your photos to train my local version of Midjourney. I hope you don't mind”, followed up with generated pictures of me wearing a flirty steampunk costume.I did in fact mind. I felt violated. Wouldn't you? I bet Taylor Swift did when deepfakes of her hit the internet. But is the legal status of my face different from the face of a celebrity? Your facial information is a unique form of personal sensitive information. It can identify you. Intense profiling and mass government surveillance receives much attention. But businesses and individuals are also using tools that collect, store and modify facial information, and we're facing an unexpected wave of photos and videos generated with artificial intelligence (AI) tools. The d...

We need to know how AI firms fight deepfakes

12Feb

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We need to know how AI firms fight deepfakes

[ad_1] When people fret about artificial intelligence, it's not just due to what they see in the future but what they remember from the past -- notably the toxic effects of social media. For years, misinformation and hate speech evaded Facebook and Twitter's policing systems and spread around the globe. Now deepfakes are infiltrating those same platforms, and while Facebook is still responsible for how bad stuff gets distributed, the AI companies making them have a clean-up role too. Unfortunately, just like the social media firms before them, they're carrying out that work behind closed doors.I reached out to a dozen generative AI firms whose tools could generate photorealistic images, videos, text and voices, to ask how they made sure that their users complied with their rules.(1) Ten...

5 things about AI you may have missed today: Midjourney may ban some images, bad news for coders, and more

11Feb

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5 things about AI you may have missed today: Midjourney may ban some images, bad news for coders, and more

[ad_1] Midjourney considers ban on Political images amid election misinformation concerns; Suffolk expert forecasts AI to takeover in coding within a decade; AI Pilot project saves lives by detecting heart attacks in Assam Hospitals; Adnan Sami supports positive use of AI in music creation- this and more in our daily roundup. Let us take a look.1. Midjourney considers ban on Political images amid election misinformation concernsAI firm Midjourney considers banning creation of political images, including those of Joe Biden and Donald Trump, to prevent misuse during the 2024 US presidential election. CEO David Holz stated the possibility of implementing this measure for the next 12 months, expressing concerns over potential misinformation. Recent controversies, such as AI-generated pornog...

Pioneering AI artist says the technology is ultimately ‘limiting’, left her ‘burnt out’

15Jan

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Pioneering AI artist says the technology is ultimately ‘limiting’, left her ‘burnt out’

[ad_1] An artist who shook up the cultural world with a haunting female portrait created by artificial intelligence (AI) has decided she's had enough of the new technology for now. Working with AI to create art is ultimately "very frustrating and very limiting," Swedish-based artist and writer Supercomposite told AFP. For the moment, she has stopped working with AI and is writing a screenplay instead, saying her experience with AI art left her "burned out"."It creates this dopamine path in your brain. It's very addictive to keep pushing that button and getting these results," she said. Supercomposite created the red-cheeked, hollow-eyed woman called "Loab" in 2022 when she was testing out the new artistic possibilities offered by AI. Her posts on social media of Loab and about the proce...

Artist Ai Weiwei says AI-replicable art is ‘meaningless’; Talks up Picasso, Matisse

12Jan

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Artist Ai Weiwei says AI-replicable art is ‘meaningless’; Talks up Picasso, Matisse

[ad_1] Artificial intelligence (AI) was the buzzword of 2023, with rapid developments taking place throughout the year. From AI chatbots to AI tools that can be used for various purposes including image generation, code interpretation, multi-modal search, and more, the incorporation of AI has been expeditious. However, it has not been all smooth sailing so far. The same AI development has also led to deepfakes and AI-powered cybercrimes. This has led to various debates over AI governance and the need for AI regulations. One area where AI has had an impact but hasn't gotten much attention is art. Courtesy of multi-modal developments and programs such as Midjourney, AI has the potential to replicate art pieces with sheer accuracy. However, that would be meaningless, according to a Chinese...

Midjourney alternative: Meet Gencraft, an AI art generator that can generate both images and videos

28Dec

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Midjourney alternative: Meet Gencraft, an AI art generator that can generate both images and videos

[ad_1] As far as AI art generators are concerned, not all of them are built the same way. Today, users have a wide range of choices to create their own AI-generated images through platforms such as DALL-E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and even the AI Generative Fill tool in Photoshop. However, mastering these platforms takes time and effort, and getting your desired results without understanding various tools and filters can be tricky. However, if you're in search of an easy-to-use platform, you would be more benefitted by using Gencraft, a fine Midjourney alternative. It is an AI art generator with a user-centered approach.Gencraft AI art generatorGencraft was created by Hive.ai, a US-based AI firm. The platform was designed by Suman Gupta, a product designer at the company. She descr...

High-res image generation AI tool: No need for subscription, high-end PC, check out DemoFusion

11Dec

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High-res image generation AI tool: No need for subscription, high-end PC, check out DemoFusion

[ad_1] Every professional, student, and more is taking to AI tools with gusto. And why not? After all, getting AI to serve you as your personal assistant is just what the doctor ordered to lower stress levels and extended hours spent bent over a desk. AI tools are definitely a blessing for all those who have jobs to do and assignments to submit. So, if you are looking for an AI tool too that can generate high-resolution images, without the requirement of a hefty investment and resources, then we have your back. You can look at some of these tools provided by centralised services, but access depends on payment. But not everyone can, or wants, to pay for these services. Breaking free from this problem, a groundbreaking AI tool developed by the University of Surrey is set to transform the ...

5 things about AI you may have missed today: Meta says no downside to AI sharing, new lawsuit against AI, more

1Dec

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5 things about AI you may have missed today: Meta says no downside to AI sharing, new lawsuit against AI, more

[ad_1] It's the first day of the last month of 2023, and we might be in for an exciting period in artificial intelligence space as companies continue developing this technology while protest groups keep highlighting its dangers. In the first news, Meta executives said that they found no downside to openly sharing its AI technology. This comes as the tech company keeps releasing open-source versions of its large language models. In other news, a group of visual artists has filed an amended lawsuit against text-to-image generating AI models after a US district judge dismissed parts of the lawsuit last month. This and more in today's AI roundup. Let us take a closer look.Meta says no downside to sharing AI technologyMeta executives stated at an event that they had not encountered any issue...

MySpace Co-Founder DeWolfe’s New Firm Uses AI to Create Videos

8Nov

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MySpace Co-Founder DeWolfe’s New Firm Uses AI to Create Videos

[ad_1] MySpace Inc. co-founder Chris DeWolfe unveiled his latest social-media product, which uses artificial intelligence to turn text into videos.PlaiDay creates three-second clips for free after a few prompts. Typing in “1970s male disco dancer,” for example, generates a prancing animated video. Add your photo, and the dancer looks like you. “When we started MySpace in 2003, the average person could not create a website,” DeWolfe said in an interview. “AI is the next iteration for community and storytelling.” DeWolfe is a serial entrepreneur, best known for the social networking site MySpace, which he sold to News Corp. in 2005 for $580 million. He and his team, which includes Chief Technology Officer Aber Whitcomb, also founded Jam City, a mobile gaming company.Plai Labs Inc., thei...

AI excitement turns to pain for Big Tech as profits hard to come by; check out the numbers

10Oct

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AI excitement turns to pain for Big Tech as profits hard to come by; check out the numbers

[ad_1] Ever since the advent of generative artificial intelligence (AI), many experts have highlighted the potential problems with this technology, ranging from misinformation to the destruction of humans through superintelligence AI. However, many failed to see the most critical problem with AI, one that is proving to be destructive to its own growth – the economics of scale. As per reports, major tech firms are struggling to turn their AI businesses into profit despite the massive excitement from consumers as it is very costly to keep AI products operational.According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, AI tools which are unproven in terms of market durability, can be quite expensive to run as they require robust servers with expensive chips that consume lots of power. In particul...