EU’s Landmark AI Act Has Been Approved, US Far Behind
After European Union lawmakers reached an agreement on the EU's landmark EU AI Act in December, the law cleared its last significant hurdle, achieving European Parliament approval earlier today.
After European Union lawmakers reached an agreement on the EU's landmark EU AI Act in December, the law cleared its last significant hurdle, achieving European Parliament approval earlier today.
Two teen boys have been arrested for allegedly making deepfake nude images of their classmates -- in what is believed to be the first-ever U.S. instance of criminal charges in relation to AI-generated nudes.
Sight was the first of our senses to be technologically shared in a world we did not witness with our own eyes. Photography—writing with light—has historically meant a one-to-one relationship between what was before a camera (defined as a lens focussing light on a recording media) and what came out the other end, created by a human.
Artificial intelligence companies Stability AI and Midjourney Inc. are fierce competitors in the AI image generation space. The rivalry has allegedly boiled over into the dangerous and felonious realm of corporate espionage.
Meta's AI image generator Imagine has been accused of producing ahistorical pictures in much the same way Google Gemini did a couple of weeks ago.
AI-generated images of Donald Trump embracing Black people are being circulated by his supporters online.
Scientists used AI to analyze satellite images and find the secret, unmapped roads that are destroying rainforests.
Two pieces of interesting artificial intelligence (AI) news came out of Apple's annual shareholder meeting today, and both tip Apple's hand a bit regarding generative AI technology.
Adobe Research revealed a new generative AI music and audio prototype, Project Music GenAI Control, that promises to give anyone the power to create music, no matter their experience or skill.
As cameras get faster and storage gets cheaper, it is all too easy for photographers to shoot everything, delete nothing, and find themselves struggling in an endless sea of photos. That's where Peakto's new centralized deletion feature comes in.
There are many who say artificial intelligence is about to destroy photography as we know it -- but one photographer is using it to earn a little cash on the side.
Microsoft has been active with artificial intelligence lately, including developing an AI-powered Super Resolution upscaling tech for Windows 11. The company's latest AI advancement is Generative Erase in Windows Photos, and it's available now on Windows 10 for select users.
Tyler Perry has halted an $800 million expansion of his studio after being shocked by the release of OpenAI’s video generator Sora and the threat it brings to jobs in the film industry.
When Samsung launched the Galaxy S24 and S24 Ultra last month, it introduced numerous new artificial intelligence features, all under the heading of "Galaxy AI." Although not without controversy, Galaxy AI is one of the S24's strongest features. Samsung has announced that a new One UI 6.1 update will bring numerous Galaxy AI features to older Samsung devices.
Google has said it will endeavor to fix the AI Image Generator on Gemini (formerly Bard) after it was criticized for "erasing white people."
Former president Donald Trump took to his social media platform Truth Social to claim that an image of him playing golf while looking overweight was AI-generated.
In 2016, Adobe developed a technology that was best described as "Photoshop for audio." It would be able to change words in a voiceover simply by typing new words. Sounds scary, right? It was, and Adobe never released it -- for good reason.
A police report has revealed how a deepfake nude scandal took over a high school in the U.S. last year.
During Sunday's Super Bowl commercials, a set of incredible photos were seen by some 123 million people. Regardless of where you stand on the Jesus-themed ad, it was a pretty cool moment for photography.
Google is working alongside the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) to better understand methane emissions and potential mitigations.
Polarr has launched the Polarr Next Public Beta 1.0. Building on the company's experience with artificial intelligence and photo editing solutions, Polarr Next is "the world's first user-trainable AI photo editor that adapts to user inputs in real-time," promising to "revolutionize" how professional photographers work with large batches of RAW images.
Leonardo AI is a generative artificial intelligence platform and it has just released an image upscaler for "reviving old photos or enhancing digital art."
The Minions made fun of terrible AI images in a Super Bowl ad last night for the upcoming movie Despicable Me 4.
Promising grand "AI Superpowers," the Frame from Brilliant Labs is a pair of augmented reality smart glasses that are open-source and include support for live translation and AI visual recognition.
Apple released an open-source AI model for image editing, possibly giving users a hint at what's to come in the company's upcoming generative AI features.
More than 200 companies and organizations signed on to join the US AI Safety Insitute Consortium to advance responsible use of artificial intelligence.
Glass Imaging, a company that showcased its ability to dramatically improve the quality of smartphone images thanks to its specialized neural network, has received $9.3 million in a seed funding round led by Google Ventures.
A site called "OnlyFake" is allegedly pumping out incredibly realistic images of fake IDs using artificial intelligence -- and the fakes seem to work.
A Hong Kong-based finance worker was scammed into paying $200 million Hong Kong dollars ($25.6 million) to criminals after a virtual meeting with deepfakes.
During his earnings call for Meta's fourth quarter results yesterday, Mark Zuckerberg made it clear he will use images posted on Facebook and Instagram to train his generative AI tools with.
Shopify has added an AI image editor to its Magic Suite that aims to help sellers create professional product photos.
After an Australian news station used an edited image of a female member of Parliament -- specifically increasing her breast size and exposing her midriff -- the network tried to pass the blame onto Photoshop. But Adobe says the facts don't line up.
A new platform that claims it will reinvent media workflow is on the horizon. Strada, an AI-based cloud platform built for video creatives, is set to be unveiled on February 1st, beginning its early testing phase.
U.S. senators have introduced a bill that would criminalize the spread of nonconsensual deepfake porn -- in direct response to the sexually explicit AI-generated photos of Taylor Swift that went viral last week.
Shutterstock has teamed up with the United Nation's AI for Good initiative to launch an artificial intelligence image contest.
Retouch4Me has announced two new Artificial Intelligence (AI) plugins for its suite of Photoshop Tools that add automatic Dust Cleanup for still images, and expands its Color Match tool to apply color grades from still images to video.
An AI image generator is reportedly coming to Google Bard after a tipster uncovered a set of unreleased patch notes.
More than four billion people around the world are eligible to vote in elections in 2024, but some fear that artificial intelligence will interfere with democracy.
Although this year's CES has ended, there is still plenty left to come this month, including the much-anticipated Samsung Unpacked event next week. So, what is the Korean tech giant expected to announce?
Getty Images has launched "Generative AI by iStock": an AI image generator that allows customers to create their own artificial intelligence stock photos.