• Apple pulls AI image apps from the App Store after learning they could generate nude images

    Apple is cracking down on a category of AI image generation apps that “advertised the ability to create nonconsensual nude images.” According to a new report from 404 Media, Apple has removed multiple AI apps from the App Store that claimed they could “create nonconsensual nude images.” more

  • Snapchat to Watermark AI-Generated Images

    In the latest move to respond to the influx of visuals created using artificial intelligence, social media app Snapchat announced it would add a watermark to such images. [Read More]

  • Snap is adding a watermark to AI-generated images

    It's becoming increasingly difficult to determine what is AI-created as tools' capabilities continue to improve. Marking AI-created images is one solution and an option Snapchat is expanding on. The platform is introducing a watermark on AI-generated content that is saved to your camera roll or exported. Snapchat In a surprise to absolutely no one, Snapchat's AI watermark will be a ghost with sparkles next to it. There doesn't seem to be any way to control where the icon appears (as is typical...

  • Meta is adding real-time AI image generation to WhatsApp

    Meta is rolling out real-time AI image generation in beta for WhatsApp users in the US. As soon as you start typing a text-to-image prompt in a chat with Meta AI, you’ll see how the image changes as you add more detail about what you want to create. In the example shared by Meta, a user types in the prompt, “Imagine a soccer game on mars.” The generated image quickly changes from a typical soccer player to showing an entire soccer field on a Martian landscape. If you have access to the beta,...

  • Snapchat will now watermark users' AI-generated images

    Snapchat announces an ghostly addition to its generative AI transparency tools.

  • Netflix's "What Jennifer Did" Documentary Under Fire for Using AI-Generated Images

    This revelation poses significant questions about the ethical boundaries of using such visuals in documentaries, particularly given the depicted individual's ongoing imprisonment awaiting retrial.

  • Meta Adds AI Chatbot to Instagram That Can Generate Images

    Instagram users may have noticed a new colorful circular logo at the top of their messages interface lately. It is Meta's AI-powered chatbot. [Read More]

  • Adobe’s latest Firefly model generates AI art from images

    Adobe has unveiled the latest version of its Firefly AI model, bringing some huge updates to Generative Fill in Photoshop.  The Firefly Image model is the smarts behind Adobe Firefly and the generative AI tools that have rolled out in Photoshop over the last year.  Today, Adobe announced the Firefly Image 3 model and all the upgrades and new features arriving with the beta.  One of the key updates this time around is Reference Image, a feature that allows users to generate images in...

  • Adobe launches Firefly 3 with full AI image generation in Photoshop

    Adobe is putting the image generation capabilities of its newly unveiled Firefly Image 3 AI model directly into Photoshop.

  • Can AI image generators be policed to prevent explicit deepfakes of children?

    As one of the largest ‘training’ datasets has been found to contain child sexual abuse material, can bans on creating such imagery be feasible?Child abusers are creating AI-generated “deepfakes” of their targets in order to blackmail them into filming their own abuse, beginning a cycle of sextortion that can last for years.Creating simulated child abuse imagery is illegal in the UK, and Labour and the Conservatives have aligned on the desire to ban all explicit AI-generated images of real...

  • Meta Integrates AI Image Generation with WhatsApp, Beta Launches in US

    US WhatsApp users can now use the Meta AI image-generating feature, which allows real-time text-to-image suggestions and image transformations.

  • Survey finds generative AI proving major threat to the work of translators

    While AI tools have been used by some translators to support their work, three-quarters of those surveyed believe the emerging technology will negatively impact their future incomeMore than a third of translators have lost work due to generative AI, a survey by the Society of Authors (SoA) has found. More than four in 10 translators said that their income has decreased because of generative AI, while more than three-quarters believe the emerging technology will negatively affect their future...