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In less than one year, AI has now produced as many AI-generated images as photographers have in the last 150 years, according to a latest report by Everypixel. The stock image database released an ‘AI Image Statistics’ report analysing the billions of AI-generated images created with text-to-image algorithms since 2022. They found that since last year, 15 billion AI-generated images have been made. However, from the first photograph taken in 1826 until 1975, it took human photographers 150 years to create 15 billion photos. In other words, it took AI technology only a year and a half to reach the...

AI-art generators. We are all beguiled by them. But Houston, we have a problem. The future of AI-art generators might be at risk. AI-art generation platforms Stability AI, DeviantArt, and Midjourney will have to appear in court soon, thanks to a class action filed against them. Being sued seems to be a thing with AI now. Here’s why. AI-art generators are trained to make new images, but they do this after being fed millions of existing images. Unfortunately, this isn’t a perfect process. Some of the AI-generated images look a lot like the original images. Some artists feel that because...

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...

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...

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...

The Super Bowl is prime time for the most creative ads. Today, one that has gone viral on social media is a 30-second ad by Illumination, the studio behind blockbuster franchise animation Despicable Me. Why so? The ad — which is a teaser trailer for the fourth instalment of the franchise, Despicable Me 4 — appears to be a mockery of AI and the ‘art’ it generates. Despicable Me 4 Teaser The ad begins with the prompt “comic royalty” being entered into a blank text space, with the narration: “Artificial intelligence is changing the way we see the world —...

Remember LimeWire? Before Spotify, Apple Music, or Tidal, the platform was how kids my generation shared music, film, and television content with each other. LimeWire was just one of several “file-sharing” sites like Napster and *cough* PirateBay, and record label executives detested those platforms. They absolutely disliked how ‘Ne_Yo_So_Sick.mp3’ was able to be so seamlessly transferred from one user to another without them raking in the royalties.  Alas, after a flurry of copyright lawsuits, as well as the emergence of mainstream music-streaming sites that we know of today, LimeWire caved. In 2011, the company agreed to pay a mammoth US$105...