2023

After much anticipation, Amazon Prime’s Fallout TV show has finally announced that it will make its premiere in 2024. The hit video game franchise, published by video game powerhouse Bethesda, is set in a post-apocalyptic US and talks about the aftermath of a nuclear war in the country. Amazon Prime Video’s adaptation of the video game will be set in Los Angeles, California. Amazon Prime Video’s Twitter/X account has shared just one post about Fallout, which contains the promotional poster for the show. At the time of writing, the post had attracted over 3.1 million views, pop. However, shortly after...

Amnesty International has faced heavy backlash for using AI art to raise awareness about protests and police brutality in Colombia. In social media posts that have since been removed, Amnesty International Norway’s Twitter account shared a thread about the two-year anniversary of Colombia’s national strike. The thread detailed Colombians’ struggle against police brutality, counting deaths, gender-based violence, and arrests among other human rights violations. Several tweets from the thread contained AI-generated illustrations depicting women protesters.  On the bottom left corner of the images, Amnesty disclosed that the “illustrations [were] produced by artificial intelligence.” The images were also shared to Instagram....