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How Spammers, Scammers and Creators Leverage AI-Generated Images on Facebook for Audience Growth
Text-to-image models such as DALL-E and Midjourney can produce impressive, at times even photorealistic, images. Past research by the Stanford Internet Observatory has covered the very serious implications for child safety and nonconsensual intimate imagery. Researchers and policymakers have expressed fears that they could be misused to inject false information into political discourse. In a new preprint …
Google Search Cracking Down on Mass-Produced AI-Generated Slime
Looks like Google’s sick of AI-generated sludge filling up its search results, too. The tech giant announced a substantial overhaul to its spam policies for search this week, introducing new changes that the platform estimates will reduce the prevalence of “low-quality, unoriginal content in search results” by a considerable 40 percent. What’s more, the massive …
Poem/1 E Ink clock will tell the time disguised as an AI-generated poem
How about a clock that doesn’t just tell time but fills your space with some uplifting poetry? Meet Poem/1, the latest innovation in timekeeping that promises to infuse your day with positivity. To begin with, Poem/1 stands out with its electronic paper display for showing the time. But then, that is just a part of …
On AI-Generated Works, Artists, and Intellectual Property
As lawsuit-inspiring musicians go, you can’t do much better than 2 Live Crew. Infamous for their 1989 album, “As Nasty as They Wanna Be,” they were the first band to ever have an album deemed legally obscene (though the decision was later overturned), and they were sued successfully by George Lucas over their trademark-infringing label …
AI-generated woman successfully sells nudes on Reddit
For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Reddit users have been paying for nude images of a fake, AI-generated woman, according to reports. Photos of the ultra-realistic Claudia character, which was created using the artificial …
As AI-generated hands get more realistic, it’ll be hard to spot the fakes
Comment on this story Comment When Aidan Ragan creates artificially generated images, he expects the people in his pictures to have knotty, veiny hands with more or less than five fingers. But this month, as he sat in his University of Florida class about AI in the arts, he was stunned to see a popular …
How to Spot AI-Generated Art, According to Artists
How long will the naked eye be able to spot the difference between images made by generative artificial intelligence and art created by humans? Ari Melenciano, an artist who works at Google’s Creative Lab, squints at her computer screen during our Zoom chat and scans artwork created with generative AI. “I mean, I can barely tell …
100,000 free AI-generated headshots put stock photo companies on notice
It’s getting easier and easier to use AI to generate convincing-looking, yet entirely fake, pictures of people. Now, one company wants to find a use for these photos, by offering a resource of 100,000 AI-generated faces to anyone that can use them — royalty free. Many of the images look fake but others are difficult …
