Apple's 35th annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) keynote address, considered by industry analysts to be one of the most important ever, has focused heavily on artificial intelligence (AI).
A disturbing report has revealed that personal photos of Brazilian children have been included in a major image library used to train AI image generators.
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.
Chinese app maker Kuaishou has released an AI video generator called Kling capable of producing impressive results that rival OpenAI's Sora.
Another week, another public relations nightmare for Adobe. While not every controversy is Adobe's fault, each is understandable in the larger context: Adobe lost people's trust a while ago, and everything it does is under a microscope.
The 1957 movie 12 Angry Men stars, as the title suggests, 12 men who are on a jury together and must decide the fate of a teenager accused of killing his father.
Artificial intelligence-based photo culling and editing app Aftershoot gives photographers a major upgrade with the release of Aftershoot Edits 2.0.
A decade's worth of Peak Design's client data (about half a million records) leaked publicly because due to a data migration, the information was temporarily not password protected.
New research could completely change how people use night vision technology.
Stock photo and video agency Shutterstock has announced a new multi-year partnership with Reka, an AI company. Like its relationships with Meta, Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, and OpenAI, Shutterstock is licensing its data for Reka to train AI models.
As a huge nerd for the history of photography, I've spent a lot of time reading about and studying products of the past. And there have been a lot, to say the least.
Scientists have created the thinnest optical lens ever made for camera systems. At just three atoms thick, the researchers believe it will be especially useful for future wearables like the now defunct Google Glass or Meta's RayBan smart glasses.
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 viral news story on TikTok about "Douglass Barnes" who carried out an "eye for an eye" murder on a cop's daughter is made up, police say.
Network-attached storage (NAS) is arguably one of the most versatile and accessible ways to store your most important data. While cloud services have become the "norm" for backup evangelists, a local backup method is vital for creatives dealing with massive volumes of photos daily.
NASA has unveiled a new infrared camera that promises to drive impressive new science on Earth and beyond.
The filmmakers behind Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga used AI to make a child actor look like the lead actress Anya Taylor-Joy and blend their faces together.
The creative behind an AI photo booth says that it is still best to get a headshot taken by a real photographer.
Vimeo's new CEO Philip Moyer last month reached out to the company's community regarding AI, its use, and how the company should approach it. Today, Moyer published a new blog post with a straightforward message: it's saying "no" to AI.
Instagram's newly-launched "Made with AI" labels are creating confusion as photographers and content creators are finding their posts slapped with the tags despite using minimal editing or apparently not using AI at all.
Magic Editor, Google's artificial intelligence-based photo editing tool, has arrived on older smartphones. No longer must users have the latest Google Pixel phones to take advantage of the company's AI photo features.
Users can now share photos from their Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses directly to their Instagram Story without ever needing to take out their phone.
An Arizona state representative turned to ChatGPT to help him write part of a law regulating deepfakes in elections.
A U.S. man has been charged by the FBI for allegedly producing 13,000 sexually explicit and abusive AI images of children on the popular Stable Diffusion model.
Microsoft Paint continues to try to innovate beyond its humble origins. Microsoft has given its venerable art app a new artificial intelligence image generator.
Police officers have been quietly finding ways to keep using facial recognition in U.S. cities that have banned the controversial technology, according to a recent report.
As Microsoft showed off its new Arm-based Surface Laptop Monday, just as much attention was paid to how it compares against its competition, namely, Apple's popular MacBook Air.
"Multimodal AI" is suddenly everywhere, with companies like Meta, OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft all using the term to sell people on new AI models and services in just the past few weeks. But what is "multimodal," and what does it mean?
TikTok is testing the ability for users to upload 60-minute videos -- as the company continues to embrace long-form content and compete head-on with YouTube.
The American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) published a scathing rebuke of Adobe in an open letter, calling the company's latest round of ads a "shocking dismissal of photography and the photographers who have dedicated their lives to creating it."
Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen has been in charge of Adobe for nearly two decades and in that time has rarely done interviews. However, he has been making the rounds lately to pump up AI's tires, including an interview published this week with The Verge's Nilay Patel for the publication's Decoder podcast. There, Narayen said some interesting, if not disconcerting, things.
In a new study, researchers were able to improve the low-quality images produced by a metalens. These types of ultra-thin cameras have the advantage of being small, but typically have poor image quality. That may be changing.
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.
Apple users are reporting that old photos -- including NSFW ones -- are reappearing on their devices after updating to the latest iOS 17.5.
Artificial intelligence continues to grow rapidly, but it's still not perfect. Look no further than Google's I/O keynote from this week where it showed off its AI model Gemini giving a terrible answer to a struggling photographer.
Camera Bits are introducing C2PA Content Credentials technology into Photo Mechanic to help in the fight against disinformation.
Intel announced Thunderbolt Share, a new software feature that leverages the speed of a Thunderbolt connection to enable two PCs to share files, screen, storage, and inputs like mice and keyboards through a Thunderbolt 4 or 5 connection.
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?
Google Photos took the spotlight at the opening of the tech company's I/O keynote, complete with a big AI-powered update.
Google unveiled its new artificial intelligence-backed video generator Veo, signaling a significant expansion in the world of AI art.
Apple's iPad Pro (2024) is a marvel of modern technology. Sleek, bright, and thin, it feels like technology we were promised when I was a kid. But for as many times as I stood mouth agape at it, I felt pulled back -- and that's not necessarily entirely on Apple to fix.
OpenAI today released GPT-4o, the company's new flagship AI model. The "o" stands for "omni," and reflects GPT-4o's ability to handle multiple types of inputs at once, including audio, images, and text.
Since OpenAI, the artificial intelligence technology company behind the DALL-E and ChatGPT, unveiled its new AI video generator, Sora, there has been controversy and questions surrounding how the Microsoft-backed company trained its new video model.
So far, this NASCAR season has been one of slim margins and photo finishes. PetaPixel chatted with photographer Alex Slitz about his image of a three-way photo finish at Atlanta Motor Speedway in February, but last week's race at Kansas Speedway was somehow even closer -- with Kyle Larson winning by 0.001 second.
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.
India's Election Commission has urged all political parties to avoid using AI-generated deepfakes in the 2024 election.
Social media users fell for AI-generated photos that appeared to show celebrities attending the Met Gala 2024.
A major indie artist has addressed the "intense debate" surrounding his latest music video which was entirely generated by OpenAI's video generator Sora.
Apple announced an overhaul to the iPad Air, giving it the powerful M2 chip and a new larger size option.
