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Scammers Use AI to Complete Stolen Art and Resell it

January 30, 2024

A new type of scam is now spreading on social media thanks to easy access to AI art tools. Scammers are taking advantage of digital...

A new type of scam is now spreading on social media thanks to easy access to AI art tools. Scammers are taking advantage of digital artists and illustrators by requesting drafts or rough sketches with the promise of payment, then vanishing with the incomplete artwork. The scammers then use AI tools to “finish up” the drafts, and resell them online as their own. Artificial intelligence to complete artist drafts The case first came to light via “MKKT”, an anonymous digital artist from Japan. MKKT shared on X that they were approached by an internet user who wanted to commission the...

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Spotify AI DJ: How To Use The App To Curates a Playlist Just for You

Nicole Buckler

January 29, 2024

Table of contentsWhat is Spotify AI DJ?Where to find the DJHow to use Spotify AI DJ on your iPhone or Android Spotify AI DJ: The...

Table of contentsWhat is Spotify AI DJ?Where to find the DJHow to use Spotify AI DJ on your iPhone or Android Spotify AI DJ: The world’s most famous streaming service has taken personalisation to hardcore levels this week by releasing its AI DJ to Australian users of its premium service. What is Spotify AI DJ? As its name suggests, Spotify’s latest AI DJ is a feature where artificial intelligence technology is used to curate a playlist tailored for the user. Spotify rolled out the feature around August last year, and at the time of writing the feature still lives on...

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The family of a deceased artist is leveraging his legacy and style to market AI art.

The Chainsaw » AI Art

January 21, 2024

A famous artist who died in 2019 is now seeing his artworks being fed to generative AI, with the results being sold online in association...

A famous artist who died in 2019 is now seeing his artworks being fed to generative AI, with the results being sold online in association with his name. The sellers are his own family members, who say it is “legal” and “ethical”. Leonid Afremov, a Belarus-born artist, died six years ago aged 64. Afremov was an Impressionist artist known for vivid, colourful paintings mostly depicting nature. He mostly created his works with oil on canvas and a palette knife. Screengrab from afremov.com. May 8, 2024. Yesterday, Jon Neimeister, who’s the lead artist for Blizzard’s Hearthstone video game, discovered that family...

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Scarlett Johansson Says OpenAI Stole Her Voice For ChatGPT

David Allegretti

January 18, 2024

Scarlett Johansson has released a statement following OpenAI’s removal of a controversial voice option that sounds eerily similar to the Hollywood star. ChatGPT released its...

Scarlett Johansson has released a statement following OpenAI’s removal of a controversial voice option that sounds eerily similar to the Hollywood star. ChatGPT released its voice chat feature in September 2023. Since then, users have had the option to pick from five voices: Ember, Cove, Juniper, Breeze, and Sky. The latter has drawn comparisons to the AI voice assistant in the 2013 Spike Jonze film Her, voiced by Johansson. On Monday (May 20) users began noticing the Sky voice option was no longer available on the ChatGPT app. People flooded social media with speculation it was due to the recent...

Business

Real Smiles Hold More Appeal Than Deepfakes

The Chainsaw » AI Art

January 2, 2024

If deepfake humans irk you, science now has an explanation for that. A study by researchers in Europe published by Nature found that our brain...

If deepfake humans irk you, science now has an explanation for that. A study by researchers in Europe published by Nature found that our brain responds more positively to human smiles we are told are real as opposed to those deepfakes generated by AI. The researchers gathered 30 participants who have a mean age of 25 years old. They were given a total of 540 images of different human faces with a Caucasian appearance. The images contained three distinct expressions: angry, neutral and happy. The photos were also “cropped into an oval shape, excluding hair, ears and neck” to minimise...