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Artists launch copyright lawsuit against AI art generators Stable Diffusion and Midjourney

TechSpot

That's been especially true of systems that create art. The problem was highlighted last September when the Colorado State Fair's contest for emerging digital artists was by Jason M. AI-powered content-generating tools have seen their popularity explode in recent months, but it hasn't stopped the controversy that surrounds them.

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How artists and scientists see tree branches similarly

Fast Company Tech

Do artists and scientists see the same thing in the shape of trees? Piet Mondrian was an early 20th-century abstract artist and art theorist obsessed with simplicity and essence of form. The stylized tree carvings of the Sidi Saiyyed mosque also follow the precise system of proportions dictated by the scale invariance of real trees.

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2 space objects are traveling so fast, they might exit the galaxy

Mashable Tech

In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an intriguing signal: They found two objects traveling together through the galaxy, one 2,300 times heavier than its companion. That's nearly twice as fast as our solar system is orbiting around the Milky Way.

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Even the Most Advanced AI Has a Problem: If It Doesn’t Know the Answer, It Makes One Up

Futurism

When I tried it out for myself, the hallucinations were even stranger: Google's Gemini informed me that I was married to a Syrian artist named Ahmad Durak Sibai , who I'd never heard of before who appears to have passed away in the 1980s. Its about having useful systems to deploy," Dobler said, "even if theyre not superintelligent."

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Artists are irked by Twitter’s change to retweets

The Verge

Artists on Twitter have a request: stop quote-tweeting their work. It’s all the more pressing now that Twitter has, temporarily at least, changed its retweet system to encourage users to quote tweets and add their own words on top, rather than simply boost someone else’s message. PSA to All Artists?? Non-Artists: don’t QRT art.

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[Free Mini Webinar] How to Use AI Tools to Create Visual Content for Your Nonprofit

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Learn to: • Generate engaging visuals with AI image-creation tools • Explore artistic styles using AI-powered image analysis • Create unique AI-composed music and jingles Register Now! Visit GoToWebinar’s Attendee System Check for information on how to join and attend this webinar.

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Amazon’s Spring Sale ends soon — last chance to grab the Samsung Galaxy Tab S10+ for over $100 off

Mashable Tech

Artists will love the Sketch to Image tool, while students and professionals can get auto-transcribed lectures and organized notes in seconds. SEE ALSO: The best Apple deals in Amazon's Big Spring Sale: New iPads and M4 MacBook Airs are already on sale If you’re creative or take digital note-taking seriously, this tablet is a dream.

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