TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

Stability AI , the startup behind the generative AI art tool Stable Diffusion , today open-sourced a suite of text-generating AI models intended to go head to head with systems like OpenAI’s GPT-4. But Stability AI argues that open-sourcing is in fact the right approach, in fact.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

million in seed funding from Andreessen Horowitz’s crypto arm alongside a host of artists including names like Steve Aoki, 3LAU and Wyclef Jean. Web3 artist Latashá on educating creators about crypto’s ebbs and flows.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2008

The Hack Artist suggests that it’s important to marry direct mail efforts and a web presence. .’&# She gives some great suggestions and examples Joanne Fritz talks about three big mistakes – outdated information, insufficient contact information, and outdated design. Be Helpful.

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OpenAI

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

users are now actively creating over 2M images a day with DALL·E—from artists and creative directors to authors and architects—with over 100K users sharing their creations and feedback in our Discord community. Artists, in particular, have provided important input on DALL·E’s features. More than 1.5M

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NVIDIA AI Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Google released BERT as open-source software , spawning a family of follow-ons and setting off a race to build ever larger, more powerful LLMs. Their ability to turn text descriptions into artistic images attracted casual users to create amazing images that went viral on social media.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

Two companies behind popular AI art tools, Midjourney and Stability AI, are entangled in a legal case that alleges they infringed on the rights of millions of artists by training their tools on web-scraped images. Generative AI, particularly text-to-image AI, is attracting as many lawsuits as it is venture dollars.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 11, 2011

– "Well how about that – after Epic Change’s use of JustCoz, and Al Gore’s campaign with Climate Reality Project in September to get folks to donate their status updates, someone has gone and open sourced the concept.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2022

Uniswap is an open source permissionless protocol that developers can use and embed into their platforms so crypto users can swap tokens, while Uniswap Labs is a business that builds products on top of the protocol. You should be able to support your favorite NFT artists in one click.”.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The 10/10-rated Log4Shell flaw in Log4j, an open source logging software that’s found practically everywhere, from online games to enterprise software and cloud data centers, claimed numerous victims from Adobe and Cloudflare to Twitter and Minecraft due to its ubiquitous presence.

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The Verge

AUGUST 3, 2020

Adobe has released more details on its Content Authenticity Initiative, a system for permanently attaching sources and details to an image. The project is meant to mitigate two problems: artists losing credit for work and newsworthy images being manipulated or taken out of context.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

The legal spats between artists and the companies training AI on their artwork show no sign of abating. In an effort to grant artists more control over how — and where — their art’s used, Jordan Meyer and Mathew Dryhurst co-founded the startup Spawning AI. By late April, that figure had eclipsed 1 billion.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

Once it exits beta, SDXL will be open-sourced, Stability AI says, just like the previous iterations of Stable Diffusion. Stability AI is in the crosshairs of a legal case that alleges the company infringed on the rights of millions of artists by developing its tools using web-scraped, copyrighted images.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

A couple weeks back, IntraHealth International — a supporter of TechSoup Global — launched a terrific new collaboration with great music artists, technologists, and health care workers in order to further benefit programs for urgent health needs in Africa.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

This demand led to the creation of a number of differently designed CMS aiming at mommy bloggers, artists and anyone who wanted to have a Web presence, which today is almost every living person. A new revolution began when high-speed Internet connections became available to most of the developed world.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

Called Mozilla.ai , the newly forged company’s mission isn’t to build just any AI — its mission is to build AI that’s open source and “trustworthy,” according to Mark Surman, the executive president of Mozilla and the head of Mozilla.ai. Surman describes Mozilla.ai ” Mozilla.ai

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

Being an open source and open data geek, the menu was accompanied with some open data about what was ordered most during the previous month! I also used Twitter to get 300 t-shirts donated to bring over for the conference. Here’s a video and blog post I wrote for Blogher back then.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

The Open Source Museum project at The Tech is a grant-funded grand experiment. The concept is practical: cut the time and expense of exhibit development by creating a social space where exhibit developers from many museums—along with scientists, artists, visitors—can collaborate to design concepts for exhibits.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

And thus did we learn today that The Artist Formerly Known As Facebook is gunning for a top-10 spot on the global supercomputer charts. Meta joins the supercomputer game : It is a truth universally acknowledged: A [tech megacorp] in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a [supercomputer].

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DipJar

AUGUST 24, 2022

She came to the library right before a significant capital campaign to transform the library into “an open source, people’s university” and hasn’t looked back since. In that role, she is responsible for marketing, communications, and fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Do you think Open Source is like fair trade coffee ? How do you see gift economies operating in the nonprofit open source community, the nonprofit blogosphere, and nonprofit tech community in general? My wife, Deepa, really got me started on the notion of gift economies within her online artistic community.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

“Artists recognize that when a platform changes ownership, even the smallest tweaks can impact their livelihoods,” writes Amanda Silberling in a three-handed opinion column with Devin Coldewey and Alex Wilhelm. Amanda Silberling: Big money + Big Tech = skeptical artists. 3 views on the Epic-Bandcamp deal.

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The Verge

MARCH 5, 2021

Micah analyzes why this deal took place, what this means for Tidal, and how this may change the way artists are paid for their music. OpenHaystack is a new open-source tool that lets you create DIY AirTags on Apple’s Find My network. buying a majority stake in Jay-Z’s streaming service Tidal.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Our tech team comprises five focus areas: Backend Development Team: Backend developers create integrated digital experiences and web applications using state-of-the-art open source technologies such as Drupal and WordPress content management systems. The strength of our team is in the diversity of our experiences.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

Still, he said he’d consider using DALL-E 2 for tasks like giving starting points for edits and conveying ideas to graphic artists. Editors at Cosmopolitan came to a similar conclusion when they teamed up with digital artist Karen X. Cheng to create a cover for the magazine using DALL-E 2.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Top Open-sourcing datasets and tools Engaging with the broader research community is a core part of our efforts to build a more collaborative ecosystem. We support the general advancement of ML and related research through the release of open-source code and datasets.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

“Arkive is an entirely new down-up model where everyday people are part of curating the collection and defining an item’s artistic historical relevance and place in culture,” said Tom McLeod, founder and CEO of Arkive in an interview with TechCrunch. To avoid that, you’d have to open source your database.

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Google Research AI blog

MAY 18, 2023

Generative AI research Generative AI is creating a lot of excitement, and PAIR is involved in a range of related research, from using language models to simulate complex community behaviors to studying how artists adopted generative image models like Imagen and Parti. a gingerbread house in a forest in a cartoony style").

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 28, 2008

NancyWhite of Full Circle Associates suggested using a Google Group , a blog, or Moodle, a free, open source course management system. You can email your question (please keep it to 50 words) about the do-good, or artistic work you are doing, or want to do, to britt@brittbravo.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Ushahidi is an open source platform that facilitates crowdsourcing through the use of SMS/cellphones and online mapping. The measure of impact is to determine whether the comments and feedback strengthened or improved the final proposal. Crowdsourcing for knowledge creation can include “mashups of data.&# 2) Crowd Creation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2006

(Disclaimer: I'm on the honorary committee because 13 years ago I worked on an online artist network with the New York Foundation for the Arts and CAMT was the partner.) Many of us started off as artists and then ended up managing arts organizations. Tell me a little bit about how you got into arts management? Actually, I???

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Working with 16 other artists, Hofmann created 100 32-by-32 pixel images combining elements of science fiction and fantasy; those were then “remixed” into 1,600 “siblings.” With projects with Loot, we can begin to see something new coming into focus: an open-source … something with potentially broad appeal.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

” Ashoka’s Changemakers uses an online “open source” approach to build communities of people interested in finding solutions to challenging global problems. Crowd-funding New Ideas: Funding platforms for artists, musicians, and inventors: Kickstarter and IndieGoGo. Foundation application?

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Google Research AI blog

JUNE 6, 2023

We fine-tuned a large language model to proactively suggest relevant visuals in open-vocabulary conversations using a dataset we curated for this purpose. We open sourced Visual Captions as part of the ARChat project, which is designed for rapid prototyping of augmented communication with real-time transcription.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Audacity (open source software for Windows, Linux, or Mac) and Garage Band (Mac only) are two of the most common tools podcasters use. The track name, artist, and album are the most important fields to complete, but don’t forget to change the genre to "Podcast", as well.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2010

Or build an open-source PCR machine for copying DNA. When I first started exploring the site, I assumed it was mostly a place for charismatic hipsters and a few star artists with enough social media savvy and clever video production capabilities to produce enticing pitches. Or sail around the world. How would you fund it?

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

And to protect the game mechanics, Vollmer would have to file a patent, an arduous legal option and a protection he already felt was harmful to artists and found personally “ethically dubious.”. The MIT License is, arguably, the purest expression of an open-source internet. I think Gabriele made a cool thing,” Wohlwend says.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2015

One we like that is oriented toward open source and also advocacy is the Library Freedom Project (LFP). Defrauding elderly people as has long been common practice for con artists. We recommend this resource to libraries and any charity that works with children of any age. Online Security for Libraries.

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