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AI Startup Promises to Replace Costly Furniture Photo Shoots
A French startup called Presti is promising to do away with costly product photo shoots by harnessing AI technology to turn a single image into multiple photos.
A French startup called Presti is promising to do away with costly product photo shoots by harnessing AI technology to turn a single image into multiple photos.
Adobe has released a new Photoshop update, adding new selection and adjustment brushes, leveling up Firefly's text-to-image from beta to public release, and improving Photoshop's type tool.
While Meta deals with artificial intelligence in the form of its constantly-changing content tagging system, the company's research wing is hard at work on novel generative AI technology, including a new Meta 3D Gen platform that delivers text-to-3D asset generation with high-quality geometry and texture.
The chief technology officer of OpenAI thinks that the advent of artificial intelligence will mean "some creative jobs maybe will go" but adds that "maybe they shouldn't have been there in the first place."
Less than two weeks after significant outrage concerning Adobe's Terms of Use, fueled in part by poor communication, a lack of trust, and good old-fashioned misinformation, Adobe has delivered its promised revised Terms of Use, complete with new explainer text and assurances.
As the technology world waits with bated breath for AI videos to proliferate and begin to undermine everything we see online, a free AI video generator has just dropped.
Clearview AI, a facial recognition start-up that scraped more than 30 billion photos from social media, can't afford to pay the settlement bill from its class-action lawsuit so is offering Americans a stake in its company instead.
Picsart and Getty Images have teamed up to make a new AI image generator for Picsart's paying subscribers to make "commercially safe" artificial intelligence images.
When Adobe launched its Firefly generative AI, it noted that using it would have limits determined by what it calls Generative Credits. Those limitations will soon include all Firefly-powered tools in Photoshop and Lightroom, too.
Stability AI, a fading name in the increasingly crowded generative AI space, released Stable Diffusion 3 Medium (SD3M) this week, calling it "our most sophisticated image generation model to date." However, real-world users are finding more terror than sophistication, with the text-to-image model consistently producing Lovecraftian monsters.
Scores of photographers have signed an open letter rallying against Meta's plan to use public photos on Instagram and Facebook to train its AI tools.
Shutterstock has teamed up with Databricks to create a new generative AI model which it hopes will do for AI-generated images what Apple did for MP3s in the early 2000s.
Cara, an Instagram-like app that has banned AI images from its platform has exploded in popularity going from 40,000 users to 700,000 in just a single week.
The CEO of Klarna, a "buy now, pay later" finance company, has boasted that his business will save $10 million this year at the expense of photographers and the photo industry thanks to generative AI.
Adobe Stock has removed a collection of AI-generated images in the style of Ansel Adams' landscape photography after the late photographer's estate slammed Adobe for its conduct.
A series of scandals surrounding the use of artificial intelligence in movies like Late Night With the Devil and a Netflix documentary has meant studios are reluctant to acknowledge they are using AI. But that doesn't mean they're not.
A new study from the University of Cambridge called for "safeguards" around the use of "griefbots," lest they end up becoming digital ghosts.
When I was a photojournalist, turning up for jobs and getting my camera out meant I then had to download the images to a computer, edit, send, et cetera. But what if there was a way to skip the camera part and take an image with my mind instead?
OpenAI has launched a deepfake detector which it says can identify AI images from its DALL-E model 98.8 percent of the time but only flags five to 10 percent of AI images from DALL-E competitors, for now.
A major indie artist has addressed the "intense debate" surrounding his latest music video which was entirely generated by OpenAI's video generator Sora.
Generative AI is changing how people create and business is done, which has far-reaching impacts. Photography is no stranger to technological revolutions and has thus far always survived. However, the coming storm of AI feels different to many, including Adobe, a company that has been involved with digital imaging since its earliest days.
Adobe has previewed a new generative AI upscaler called VideoGigaGAN that is capable of upscaling low-resolution and blurry videos up to eight times.
At its MAX event in London, Adobe announced a huge update to its artificial intelligence system Firefly. Version 3 of the platform is significantly improved over previous iterations and promises to be able to make photorealistic images with greater variety.
Adobe has announced its new Adobe Express mobile app is available now to all users.
Instagram users may have noticed a new colorful circular logo at the top of their messages interface lately. It is Meta's AI-powered chatbot.
Adobe has previewed generative AI video tools that promise to redefine video creation and production workflows. The tools, designed for Adobe Premiere Pro, enable users to add or remove objects in a scene and will live alongside Adobe's Firefly generative AI models.
The world's first AI beauty pageant has been announced where AI-generated women can compete to be crowned the digital equivalent of Miss World -- with a $5,000 cash top prize.
Tech and software companies working on developing generative artificial intelligence platforms -- and really, who isn't doing that these days -- are in dire need of content to help train their AI models. Adobe is reportedly buying videos to help develop its text-to-video platform now.
The rise of generative AI means that huge archives of photographs and videos are suddenly valuable with the current situation being compared to a gold rush, but which platforms are licensing their content to large tech firms for the purposes of training AI models?
A new bill introduced by Rep. Adam Schiff would require all AI companies to disclose the copyrighted works used in training sets or face a fine.