As The Verge reports, U.S. Federal Judge William Alsup of the Northern District of California ruled that Anthropic has the legal right to train AI models using copyrighted work. Judge Alsup says that this use falls under fair use.
The trial involving Getty Images and Stability AI began in London this week, and the AI company has claimed in its opening statement that the copyright case represents an “overt threat” to the entire industry. Getty rejects that motion arguing in court yesterday that it “is not a battle between creatives and technology, where a win for Getty Images means the end of AI.”
To assess how LLMs from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Mistral and xAI compare today, we ran 500 geolocation tests, with 20 models each analysing the same set of 25 images.
Mahadevan described the replacement of professional journalists and fact-checkers with the general public as a monumental failure. “The future of facts online is you,” he told the audience. “In an incredibly hostile online world, all of these platforms have basically said, ‘You’re on your own. It’s up to you.’”
Right about 10 years ago, I wrote an article that went viral and sparked a lot of debate. At the time, AI was just starting to show the tip of its beak, and image manipulation was already in full force thanks to a variety of very potent software like Adobe’s Photoshop. The origin of the … Read More →
My conclusion at the time—which also still holds—was that it wasn’t the tools that mattered in judging the authoritative and authentic quality of a photojournalistic image, it was the intent. The photographer’s intent.
The Associated Press (AP) has introduced AI search to its content library which, the news and picture agency says, will make it easier to discover and use its vast collection of visual, audio, and text content.
What happens when quantum computers can finally crack encryption and break into the world’s best-kept secrets? It’s called Q-Day—the worst holiday maybe ever.
Carl De Keyzer made his name by capturing very real photographs from the Soviet Union, India, and the Belgian Congo. However, for his most recent project, De Keyzer swapped the camera for artificial intelligence imaging tools.
If AI can paint, compose, and design with intent, what remains uniquely human in creativity? Is the process of making—intuition, struggle, discovery—essential, or will humans become mere curators of AI-generated art? When execution is automated, does creativity lose its meaning?
The belief that AI merely imitates while humans originate is being challenged by rapid advancements in machine learning. If we increasingly outsource execution, we risk losing not only craftsmanship but the process that allows ideas to evolve into something more than their original spark.
According to AFP, the “proof of concept” is ready, and one can verify the images whenever they appear on the web. The agency now intends to collaborate with the industry to advance this technology to protect its readers and photographers. This includes camera manufacturers, editing software developers, and news distributors to help safeguard photojournalism and its integrity.
Ross was an artificial intelligence (AI) startup that Thomson Reuters sued in 2020 after it attempted to build a legal search engine using data from Thomson Reuter’s legal search engine, Westlaw. Judge Bibas writes in his decision that “none of Ross’s possible defenses holds water” against copyright infringement accusations
if photography is to survive, the community will need to institute rigorous measures to help certify what is real photograph from what is generated images
Below are the three broad approaches—technological, behavioral, and legislative—that can create an infrastructure supporting photography as a reliable witness. Each is described in more depth, highlighting specific tools and standards that could tangibly bolster trust in light-based imagery.
For months members of the public have been using GeoSpy, a tool trained on millions of images that can find the location a photo was taken based on soil, architecture, and more. It’s GeoGuesser at scale.
For months members of the public have been using GeoSpy, a tool trained on millions of images that can find the location a photo was taken based on soil, architecture, and more. It’s GeoGuesser at scale.
If you have had a visual currency that has been both believable and useful in making the lives of millions of people better, in helping to bring wars to an end earlier, in promoting civil rights, and in provoking global interventions when there’s disease or famine or earthquakes or other serious issues, rather than saying just that it’s been diminished in terms of its credibility, which it has been, I think the appropriate question is: What can be done to restore trust in it as a witness?
Unlike the time when social media started, I believe this presents an opportunity for photographers today. Creating a new community on a different platform will take time and effort. In fact, it’s not even clear to me that focusing on only one app is the approach to follow: maybe app XXX works better for sharing work, while app YYY might be better for people who want to engage in conversations?
