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Shutterstock Will Start Selling AI-Generated Stock Imagery With Help from OpenAI
Will AI image generators kill the stock image industry? It’s a question asked by many following the rise of text-to-image AI models in recent years. The answer from the industry’s incumbents, though, is “no” — not if we can start selling AI-generated content first. Today, stock image giant Shutterstock has Read more…
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“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.” — Ford Prefect, _Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy_
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Bumble Open Sourced Its AI That Detects Unsolicited Nudes
As part of its larger commitment to combat “cyberflashing,” the dating app Bumble is open sourcing its AI tool that detects unsolicited lewd images. First debuted in 2019, Private Detector (let’s take a moment to let that name sink in) blurs out nudes that are sent through the Bumble app, Read more…
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If you hype something and it succeeds, you’re a genius — it wasn’t a hype. If you hype it and it fails, then it was just a hype. — Neil Bogart
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Chip Can Transmit All of the Internet’s Traffic Every Second
A single computer chip has transmitted a record 1.84 petabits of data per second via a fibre-optic cable — enough bandwidth to download 230 million photographs in that time, and more traffic than travels through the entire internet’s backbone network per second. Asbjorn Arvad Jorgensen at the Technical University of Read more…
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Bono Apologizes for 2014 iTunes Album Stunt, Remembers Pitching Steve Jobs a U2 iPod
Remember back in 2014 when every iTunes music library suddenly started showing U2’s new album, Songs of Innocence? In a new memoir (excerpted by the Guardian), U2’s lead singer Bono says he’s very sorry — and explains exactly how it happened: “Free music?” asked Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, Read more…