Stevens Institute of Technology: AI Blunders: Six-Finger Hands, Two Suns and Jesus Christ on a Surfboard in a Stormy Sea . “For the study, [Gursimran] Vasir collected and examined 482 Reddit posts where users described various AI-generated image blunders. She broke her findings into four categories: AI surrealism, cultural bias, logical fallacy and misinformation.”
#Imagegenerators
We test Google Veo: impressive demo, unusable results
Over on YouTube, we run Google’s Veo 3 video generator through its paces. So when you’ve read this, go and watch the worked examples. [YouTube] Aron Peterson is a media production professional. He’s tested generative AI at home and in the cloud for a couple of years now, especially on images and video. But Aron […]
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/21/we-test-google-veo-impressive-demo-unusable-results/
#Imagegenerators #AronPeterson
The Guardian: London AI firm says Getty copyright case poses ‘overt threat’ to industry. “A London-based artificial intelligence company, Stability AI, has claimed that a copyright case brought by the global photography agency Getty Images represents an ‘overt threat’ to the generative AI industry.”
Let’s put more AI slop into advertising!
Facebook is floating AI-generated ad campaigns! You’ll type in your rough ideas and Facebook will generate a small campaign for you, with ad copy and imagery. CEO Mark Zuckerberg says AI advertising is part of his “vision” for the future of Meta. [WSJ, archive] But ad agencies have been trying out generative AI since ChatGPT […]
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/03/lets-put-more-ai-slop-into-advertising/
#Imagegenerators #Facebook #MarkZuckerberg
“Extraordinarily expensive”: Costs force Getty to pick its AI legal battles https://arstechni.ca/eXJ6 #ArtificialIntelligence #imagegenerators #StableDiffusion #generativeai #GettyImages #StabilityAI #copyright #fairuse #Policy #AI
Google takes AI propaganda to the movies
Google is very upset that a lot of the public don’t really like AI. You might think this was because of AI slop and explicit threats to their jobs, but Google is pretty sure it’s because people saw the Terminator films. So Google is funding films about how AI is good really. Mira Lang at […]
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/28/google-takes-ai-propaganda-to-the-movies/
#Imagegenerators #100Zeros #DarrenAronofsky #DeepMind #Google
University of Oxford: Dramatic rise in publicly downloadable deepfake image generators. “Researchers from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) at the University of Oxford have uncovered a dramatic rise in easily accessible AI tools specifically designed to create deepfake images of identifiable people, finding nearly 35,000 such tools available for public download on one popular globally […]
CBC: ChatGPT now lets users create fake images of politicians. We stress-tested it. “New updates to ChatGPT have made it easier than ever to create fake images of real politicians, according to testing done by CBC News. Manipulating images of real people without their consent is against OpenAI’s rules, but the company recently allowed more leeway with public figures, with specific […]
The OMG LOL Times: We have to talk about AI “art”. “Being a cheap imitation might be bad enough, but when you consider that it’s a cheap imitation built on mountains of unethically sourced material, running on an infrastructure that uses insane amounts of energy (and water!), it becomes even more concerning. Of course it’s easy to dismiss those concerns in the moment, when we just […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/02/the-omg-lol-times-we-have-to-talk-about-ai-art/
Gizmodo: People Making AI Studio Ghibli Images Are Now Producing Fake Legal Letters to Go With Their Fake Art. “The trend of using Open AI’s ChatGPT to create AI images in the distinctive style of Studio Ghibli probably should have ceased the moment the official White House X account hopped aboard. But there’s a new wrinkle in the story today, as one of the trend’s proponents posted a […]
Engadget: OpenAI delays rollout of ChatGPT’s image generator to free users. “OpenAI has just launched a feature that will allow users to generate images directly inside of ChatGPT, and it was supposed to roll out to all Plus, Pro, Team and Free users. But according to company CEO Sam Altman, it has been way more popular than OpenAI had expected even though they already had high expectations […]
Search Engine Journal: OpenAI Rolls Out GPT-4o Image Creation To Everyone. “OpenAI has rolled out a new image generation system directly integrated with GPT-4o. This system allows the AI to access its knowledge base and conversation context when creating images. This integration is said to enable more contextually relevant and accurate visual outputs.”
MIT News: AI tool generates high-quality images faster than state-of-the-art approaches. “Researchers fuse the best of two popular methods to create an image generator that uses less energy and can run locally on a laptop or smartphone.”
Search Engine Land: Microsoft reverts Bing Image Creator update amid complaints. “Microsoft is reverting the new AI model Bing Image Creator introduced, PR16, to PR13, the company confirmed. This followed a flood of complaints from users on X, Reddit, and elsewhere about a severe quality drop in terms of realism and detail.”
Google Blog: Whisk: Visualize and remix ideas using images and AI. “Today in the US, we’re launching our newest experiment in generative AI: Whisk. Instead of generating images with long, detailed text prompts, Whisk lets you prompt with images. Simply drag in images, and start creating. Whisk lets you input images for the subject, one for the scene and another image for the style. Then, […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2024/12/17/whisk-visualize-and-remix-ideas-using-images-and-ai-google-blog/
DigitalTrends: Some iPhone users report overheating when using Apple Intelligence. “Reddit user u/dsdxp posted on the iPhone subreddit that they had unlocked a secret feature in the iPhone 16 Pro. The comment was obviously sardonic, but many other users responded with their own stories of troubling temperatures from their iPhones. The common element between all of the stories was the Image […]
VentureBeat: Midjourney is launching a multiplayer collaborative worldbuilding tool called ‘Patchwork’. “The tool appears to be a web-based blank white, infinite canvas with a ‘toolbox’ on the left side of the browser screen, showing a variety of buttons labeled for ‘character,’ ‘event,’ ‘faction,’ ‘place,’ ‘prop,’ and ‘random,’ as well as tools such as ‘note,’ ‘image,’ ‘portal,’ ‘save’ […]
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