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New Tool Contaminates and Manipulates AI Art Generators

March 14, 2024

Months ago, a group of computer scientists from the University of Chicago (“UChicago”) worked with human artists to launch a tool to protect creatives from...

Months ago, a group of computer scientists from the University of Chicago (“UChicago”) worked with human artists to launch a tool to protect creatives from having their artwork stolen by AI art tools. That tool is called Glaze. The same UChicago team behind Glaze have now launched a second tool called Nightshade, which is able to ‘‘poison’’ AI art generators like Midjourney and DALL-E. Here’s how it works, and why the tool is important. What is Nightshade? Nightshade is a “data poisoning” tool that lets artists add invisible alterations in their artwork that would corrupt or poison AI art generators...

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What is this and How can it be done?

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February 15, 2024

TikTokkers are using AI to create expanded backgrounds on their favourite photos, album covers, videos and streaming shows. They are using Adobe Firefly in Photoshop...

TikTokkers are using AI to create expanded backgrounds on their favourite photos, album covers, videos and streaming shows. They are using Adobe Firefly in Photoshop to do what’s known as Generative Fill or PhotoshopAI. It is called the expansion trend. These creative little bursts are running under a few different hashtags including #generativeai #albumcover #photoshopai #photoshop #ai and #adobe. Here’s what the trend looks like and also we tell you how to do it. Album covers First of all, let’s look at the awesome trend of expanding album covers. This can look amazing. Many have been paired with the song...

Culture

Is Australian Music Embracing AI? A New Sydney Band Created by Artificial Intelligence

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February 13, 2024

The creative industry remains largely opposed to the use of artificial intelligence (AI). In film, actors are fighting Hollywood’s major studios over the studios’ proposal...

The creative industry remains largely opposed to the use of artificial intelligence (AI). In film, actors are fighting Hollywood’s major studios over the studios’ proposal to create “digital replicas” of performers using AI. In music, Spotify went on a purge in May to take down thousands of AI-generated songs. But not everyone is against the idea of working with AI. Here in Australia, Sydney band The Deep Faith is entirely generated with AI – and it’s probably the first of its kind in the country. The Deep Faith: beginning with deepfakes Byron Spencer and Daniel Stricker, both multidisciplinary artists, tell...

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AI-Generated Livestream Available on YouTube

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February 7, 2024

My Little Pony, besides being an iconic children’s animated series, is also known for its fanbase of grown men known as ‘Bronies’. And now, someone...

My Little Pony, besides being an iconic children’s animated series, is also known for its fanbase of grown men known as ‘Bronies’. And now, someone – presumably from the ‘brony’ community – loves the series enough to sit down and create their very own version of My Little Pony, all with the help of artificial intelligence (AI). As young children can only keyboard smash, we’re gonna assume that a ‘brony’ is responsible for a new AI-generated My Little Pony livestream on YouTube. The livestream isn’t just a single fan-made episode – the episode is seemingly never-ending, and its narrative develops...

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The Australian Creator of the ‘Joe Rogan AI Experience’ Podcast

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February 6, 2024

Joe Rogan is no stranger to controversy. The polarising figure has had a litany of controversial figures on his podcast in the past. But the...

Joe Rogan is no stranger to controversy. The polarising figure has had a litany of controversial figures on his podcast in the past. But the recent advent of AI has allowed one particularly ardent fan to push that envelope even further, creating episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience featuring the likes of Andrew Tate, Donald Trump, and Sam Altman, OpenAI’s boss. All of them entirely generated by AI. An Australian YouTuber operating under the name ‘The Joe Rogan AI Experience’ is gaining massive traction on the video-sharing platform. Having joined just three months ago in early February, the channel now...

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Scammers Use AI to Complete Stolen Art and Resell it

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

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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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Real Smiles Hold More Appeal Than Deepfakes

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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...

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AI technology turning your memories into masterpieces: Enigma X

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December 21, 2023

The advent of AI image generators such as DALL-E, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion has shaken up the art world. Suddenly, the ability to create striking...

The advent of AI image generators such as DALL-E, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion has shaken up the art world. Suddenly, the ability to create striking visuals is no longer restricted to those with natural talent and/or years of artistic training. Whether that’s a good thing or not depends on who you ask — but one thing that’s not up for debate is that Things Are Different Now. The ability to create art today is at our fingertips — we’re all a prompt away from visual beauty. Show this technology to someone in the ‘90s and you would break their brain....

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How to Create the Ultimate 90s TikTok AI Yearbook Trend

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November 14, 2023

Months after the viral ‘AI photoshoot’ trend, k-pop idols are now living out their days as high school students. Here is how to do the...

Months after the viral ‘AI photoshoot’ trend, k-pop idols are now living out their days as high school students. Here is how to do the new viral ‘AI yearbook’ filter reminiscent of the ‘90s that’s taking over TikTok. The new filter is from a photo editing app called Epik – it bills itself as being powered by AI, which allows users to edit photos on their phone with ease. Epik is owned by a larger South Korean photo editing app called Snow, which, ta-da, was the app responsible for the ‘AI photoshoot’ trend in June. If you want to find...