2023

Invisible watermarks that protect an artist’s work are removable using generative AI models, according to a study by researchers from the Universities of California, Santa Barbara and Carnegie Mellon. The study launched what’s known as a series of “regeneration attacks” powered by AI to test the strength of invisible watermarks in several artworks. Such attacks refer to various methods that aim to “degrade or remove invisible watermarks in images”. In the study, they included: Brightness or contrast adjustment: Changing the parameters of an image’s brightness or contrast to make the watermark harder to detect; JPEG compression: Compressing an image to...

The Head On Photo Festival (“Head On”) in Sydney, dubbed ‘the biggest night in Australian photography’, has selected a series of AI-assisted images as part of Head On’s exhibition lineup. Four AI-generated images will be up for display, three of which depict human subjects interacting against real-world backdrops. One of them shows two men in Russian military uniforms kissing in a town square with some passers-by watching in the background. Another shows a girl in a dress in a field of flowers, smiling at a camera placed from a low angle. Images by Toma Gerzha, courtesy of Head On Photo...