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By Jennifer Conrad | 09.22.22 |
| The dangers of letting artificial intelligence generate imagery are already well known, from grafting a celebrity's face into a pornographic video to creating deepfakes of politicians to spread disinformation. Now tools like DALL-E 2 and Midjourney have the potential to let anyone use AI to conjure up entire scenes with a text prompt. The technology is often used to churn out whimsical images, like a Shiba Inu in a beret. But because these tools are so ripe for abuse, their creators cap who can use them and limit the kinds of images the software can be used to generate. As Will Knight reports, some would-be AI artists find the guardrails a little too restrictive. He spoke to Elle Simpson-Edin, who wanted to create imagery to promote the "grimdark queer science fantasy" she's writing with her wife. To create sufficiently gory and erotic images, Simpson-Edin turned to Unstable Diffusion, a Discord community for people using unrestricted versions of an AI image tool called Stable Diffusion. Stable Diffusion can create images that look like photographs or hand-drawn illustrations. The official tool is built to prevent the generation of nudity or gore, but the full code of the AI model has been released, so people can remove those limits. Emad Mostaque, who created Stable Diffusion in collaboration with an open source collective called Stability.Ai, says he believes responsibility for the images generated lies not with the technology, but with individuals. "If they use Photoshop for illegal or unethical use it is the fault of the person," Mostaque told Knight. "The model can create bad things only if the user deliberately makes it do so." Read why some fear uncensored AI art tools could create unethical horrors. | |
Deep(er) Learning: When AI Makes Art |
| Rashed Haq thought he had a definition of photography. Surrounded by thermal cameras, lidar, 3D printers, and AI software, he's not so sure anymore. | |
| OpenAI has announced that it's granting DALL-E users the right to commercialize their art—for now, wrote Jessica Rizzo. | |
| When DALL-E Mini presented a powerful new canvas, people's imaginations drifted in a clinical direction. Gastroenterologist Nitin K. Ahuja pondered why. | |
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| Unauthorized Shein boutiques have sprung up across Mexico, selling new items from the fast-fashion website. (Rest of World) The Drone Racing League organizes professional drone races—and helps sponsors like Google and T-Mobile collect data and test their products. (Protocol) Civilian drones coming from China are buzzing over Taiwan's military sites. (CNN) | |
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