Why an A.I. Video of Tom Cruise Battling Brad Pitt Spooked Hollywood

A 15-second clip created by an artificial intelligence tool owned by the Chinese technology company ByteDance appears more ...

Lawsuits or billion-dollar deals: How Disney picks its AI copyright battles

Disney sent ByteDance a cease-and-desist for using its characters on Seedance. When OpenAI's Sora did it, however, Disney ...
PC Magazine

Real or AI? 7 Clues to Spot Fake Images Right Away

I’ve been writing about consumer technology and video games for more than a decade at a variety of publications, including Destructoid, GamesRadar+, Lifewire, PCGamesN, Trusted Reviews, and What Hi-Fi ...
The New York Times

Musk’s Chatbot Flooded X With Millions of Sexualized Images in Days, New Estimates Show

Over nine days, Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot generated and posted 4.4 million images, of which at least 41 percent were sexualized images of women. By Kate Conger Dylan Freedman and Stuart A. Thompson ...
CNN

Musk’s Grok blocked by Indonesia, Malaysia over sexualized images in world first

Elon Musk’s Grok has been blocked by Indonesia and Malaysia, the first countries to do so after the artificial intelligence tool’s “digital undressing” function flooded the internet with photos of ...
Ars Technica

Grok assumes users seeking images of underage girls have “good intent”

For weeks, xAI has faced backlash over undressing and sexualizing images of women and children generated by Grok. One researcher conducted a 24-hour analysis of the Grok account on X and estimated ...
The New Yorker

The Year in Slop

The Turing test, a long-established tool for measuring machine intelligence, gauges the point at which a text-generating machine can fool a human into thinking it’s not a robot. ChatGPT passed that ...
C&EN

Tomography of Complex Coherence-Polarization Matrix of Random Vector Light for Phase Image Encoding

School of Physical Science and Technology & Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, China Suzhou Key Laboratory of Intelligent ...
Futurism

Grok Is So Deeply Antisemitic That Showing It a Picture of Some Random Clouds in the Sky Prompts an Outrageously Offensive Answer

It’s been just over a month since Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI’s Grok chatbot had a mind-bogglingly antisemitic meltdown, celebrating itself as “MechaHitler” and targeting people ...
techlearning

Best Image and Clip Art Sites for Schools

Digital image libraries are essential to today’s teachers and students. Yet while stock image sites such as Shutterstock, iStock, and Getty Images offer an impressive selection of high-quality images ...
Android Authority

I tested Gemini's latest image generator and here are the results

Back in November, I tested the image generation capabilities within Google’s Gemini, which was powered by the Imagen 3 model. While I liked it, I ran into its limitations pretty quickly. Google ...