• How to create amazing artwork using AI

    Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the art world, offering artists innovative tools to expand their creative horizons. By integrating AI into your artistic process, you can achieve a level of precision and control that was previously unimaginable. AI empowers you to blend traditional techniques with innovative technology, resulting in unique and compelling artwork that stands […]

  • The Use of “Attention Capture” Technologies in Our Classrooms Has Created a Crisis

    Jac Mullen We have a choice: We can allow Big Tech to solve the problem with invasive brain technology. Or we can let educators teach students how to pay attention. 

  • Can Rishi Sunak create a smoke-free generation?

    MPs voted this week to ban anyone aged 15 or younger in 2024 from buying cigarettes. If the legislation passes and is enacted, it would be a world first. Ben Quinn reportsBefore 2007, going out on the town in the UK involved inhaling secondhand smoke – on trains, in restaurants, in clubs and in pubs. Even non-smokers would find that a stale tobacco scent could linger after an evening out. The ban on smoking indoors in public places changed things almost overnight.Now with smoking rates among the...

  • The UK Criminalizes Creating Sexually Explicit Deepfake Images

    The creation of sexually explicit deepfake images is to be made a criminal offense in the U.K. -- with anyone sharing these images facing the possibility of jail time. [Read More]

  • PHOTOS: SISD students use recycled materials to create art

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    Logitech's free AI Prompt Builder is surprisingly handy. Here's how I'm using it

    When it comes to AI, everyone is suffering from FOMO (fear of missing out). It seems like everyone has to have some sort of AI offering, even if it's not clear why. Into that fomosphere, enter Logitech.Logitech makes wonderful keyboards and mice. I've been using and recommending their gear for years. The company's Logi Options+ configuration tool has improved over the years, with helpful features including shortcut functions for keys and buttons, a macro builder, and now, an AI prompt builder....

  • Using deep learning to image the Earth's planetary boundary layer

    Although the troposphere is often thought of as the closest layer of the atmosphere to the Earth's surface, the planetary boundary layer (PBL)—the lowest layer of the troposphere—is actually the part that most significantly influences weather near the surface. In the 2018 planetary science decadal survey, the PBL was raised as an important scientific issue that has the potential to enhance storm forecasting and improve climate projections.

  • Netflix Used AI Images in New True Crime Documentary

    Netflix using generative AI images in a true crime doc is extremely irresponsible and exactly what archivists are telling documentaries not to do https://t.co/tC3L8tX0qE— Emanuel Maiberg (@emanuelmaiberg) April 18, 2024 Netflix has used what appears to be AI-generated or manipulated images in a recent documentary about a 2010 murder-for-hire plot involving a woman named Jennifer Pan.According to the source, "the images that appear around the 28-minute mark of Netflix's "What Jennifer Did," have...

  • 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.

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    U.K. to Criminalize Creating Sexually Explicit Deepfake Images

    Sharing sexually explicit deepfake images could also result in jail, the U.K.’s Ministry of Justice announced as part of plans to tackle violence against women.

  • Creating sexually explicit deepfake images to be made offence in UK

    Offenders could face jail if image is widely shared under proposed amendment to criminal justice billCreating a sexually explicit “deepfake” image is to be made an offence under a new law, the Ministry of Justice has announced.Under the legislation, anyone who creates such an image without consent will face a criminal record and an unlimited fine. They could also face jail if the image is shared more widely. Continue reading

  • Creating ‘deepfake’ sexual images to be criminal offence under new legislation

    Under the new legislation, anyone who creates a sexually explicit deepfake image without consent will face a criminal record and an unlimited fine.