Tag: Midjourney

Midjourney debuts feature for generating consistent characters across multiple gen AI images

Join leaders in Boston on March 27 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here. The popular AI image generating service Midjourney has deployed one of its most oft-requested features: the ability to recreate characters consistently across new images. This has been a major hurdle for AI image generators to-date, […]

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WordPress says VIP customer data won’t be shared to AI firms without consent

Users of the popular blogging and web publishing platform WordPress reacted with alarm to a report this week from 404 Media on documentation showing that WordPress parent company Automattic was in final talks to share users’ published data with AI companies OpenAI and Midjourney to train their models. VentureBeat, a WordPress customer (this article and […]

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Willy Wonka Experience Glasgow: a metaphor for the overpromises of AI?

If you have spent much time on the internet this week, and particularly on X (formerly Twitter), you’ve likely come across the amusing story of the “Willy Wonka Experience Glasgow,” a kind of immersive children’s theatrical experience held in a warehouse in the Scottish city that had been advertised with AI generated images as being […]

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Study Featuring AI-Generated Giant Rat Penis Retracted, Journal Apologizes

A peer-reviewed scientific journal that this week published a study containing nonsensical AI-generated images including a gigantic rat penis has retracted the article and apologized. The paper was authored by three scientists in China, edited by a researcher in India, reviewed by two people from the U.S. and India, and published in the open access […]

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Scientific Journal Publishes AI-Generated Rat with Gigantic Penis In Worrying Incident

Update: The paper has been retracted by the journal due to its wildly incorrect AI-generated images. Read more here. A peer-reviewed science journal published a paper this week filled with nonsensical AI-generated images, which featured garbled text and a wildly incorrect diagram of a rat penis. The episode is the latest example of how generative […]

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Stability, Midjourney, Runway hit back in AI art lawsuit

The class-action copyright lawsuit filed by artists against companies providing AI image and video generators and their underlying machine learning (ML) models has taken a new turn, and it seems like the AI companies have some compelling arguments as to why they are not liable, and why the artists’ case should be dropped (caveats below). […]

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Taylor Swift is not the first victim of AI: Decoding the deepfake dilemma

When sexually explicit deepfakes of Taylor Swift went viral on X (formerly known as Twitter), millions of her fans came together to bury the AI images with “Protect Taylor Swift” posts. The move worked, but it could not stop the news from hitting every major outlet. In the subsequent days, a full-blown conversation about the […]

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From Ye’s ‘Vultures’ to ‘True Detective,’ AI infiltrates pop culture

More than a year after it first broke through to the mainstream with ChatGPT, generative AI remains a controversial technology among many artists — just see all the attention around Nightshade and its peers, tools designed to help artists resist AI companies scraping and training image and video generation models on their work. But that […]

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Kin.art launches to defend artists’ entire portfolios from AI scraping

As the generative AI era has ushered in a wave of image generation models trained on data scraped from other artists across the internet, some artists who object to this practice have sought ways to defend their work from AI. (Full disclosure: VentureBeat uses AI art generation tools to create header art for articles, including […]

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Nightshade, the free tool that ‘poisons’ AI models, is now available for artists to use

It’s here: months after it was first announced, Nightshade, a new, free software tool allowing artists to “poison” AI models seeking to train on their works, is now available for artists to download and use on any artworks they see fit. Developed by computer scientists on the Glaze Project at the University of Chicago under […]

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Getty is adding an AI image generator to iStock with legal protections for users

Join leaders in San Francisco on January 10 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here. Getty Images, the company known for selling stock imagery for digital and print content, today pushed its AI efforts ahead by launching a dedicated image generation service for its subsidiary iStock. Dubbed Generative AI […]

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Midjourney V6 is here with in-image text and completely overhauled prompting

Are you ready to bring more awareness to your brand? Consider becoming a sponsor for The AI Impact Tour. Learn more about the opportunities here. Call it a holiday present: Midjourney version 6, the latest and greatest iteration of the popular image generation AI model from the research collective of the same name founded by […]

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The copyright case against AI art generators just got stronger with more artists and evidence

Are you ready to bring more awareness to your brand? Consider becoming a sponsor for The AI Impact Tour. Learn more about the opportunities here. As the first year of the generative AI era passes into the history books, the issue of whether generative AI models — which train on large volumes of human created […]

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‘Make it more’: generative AI memes explode onto the internet

Are you ready to bring more awareness to your brand? Consider becoming a sponsor for The AI Impact Tour. Learn more about the opportunities here. Memes have been around since the earliest days of the consumer world wide web — those of us with birth years beginning with “19” will likely recall the dancing baby, […]

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This Angry Birds clone made entirely through AI prompts makes me wonder what the future of small-scale game development is going to be like

The use of generative AI in the development of games has been hitting the headlines for some time now, but typically in the context of AI tools being used to assist with game development. One person has now made an entire game solely through the use of ChatGPT, DALL-E, and Midjourney. Spotted over at Hot […]

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Midjourney’s new style tuner is here. Here’s how to use it.

Midjourney is one of the most popular AI art and text-to-image generators, generating high-quality photorealistic and cinematic works from users’ prompts typed in plain English that have already wound up on TV and in cinemas (as well as on VentureBeat, where we use it along with other tools for article art). Conceived by former Magic […]

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Hive3 launches to connect brands with leading AI creatives

VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed – An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Network and learn with industry peers. Learn More By now, brands and individuals know that they can find freelance creatives to work on projects for them on platforms such as Fiverr or even on major social media sites such as Instagram, TikTok, […]

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Midjourney, Stability AI and DeviantArt win a victory in copyright case by artists — but the fight continues

VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed – An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Network and learn with industry peers. Learn More The contentious issue of whether AI art generators violent copyright — since they are by and large trained on human artists’ work, in many cases without their direct affirmative consent, compensation, or even knowledge […]

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Meet Nightshade, the new tool allowing artists to ‘poison’ AI models with corrupted training data

VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed – An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Network and learn with industry peers. Learn More Since ChatGPT burst onto the scene nearly a year ago, the generative AI era has kicked into high gear, but so too has the opposition. A number of artists, entertainers, performers and even record […]

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Midjourney’s first mobile app is here…sort of

VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed – An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Network and learn with industry peers. Learn More Bootstrapped startup Midjourney offers a popular text-to-image AI generator from its own foundation model. Since its beta launch in the summer of 2022, it has built a thriving community of users on its official […]

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How much energy does AI use compared to humans? Surprising study ignites controversy

AI’s carbon footprint is no open-and-shut case, according to scientists from the University of California-Irvine and MIT, who published a paper earlier this year on the open access site arXiv.org that shakes up energy use assumptions of generative AI models, and which set off a debate among leading AI researchers and experts this past week.  […]

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