How-To Geek: The Best AI Image Generators You Can Use Right Now. “AI image generators like DALL-E 2 and Midjourney have suddenly burst into mainstream consciousness. More of these tools seem to be popping up all the time, but they aren’t always available to the public. Here are the ones you can use right now—today.”
VentureBeat: Adobe bets on generative AI with ‘Firefly’ tool to create images from text. “Adobe announced a series of AI initiatives at its annual conference, Adobe Summit, on Tuesday, including a new set of tools that can generate images on demand using only text prompts.”
Ars Technica: AI-imager Midjourney v5 stuns with photorealistic images—and 5-fingered hands. “On Wednesday, Midjourney announced version 5 of its commercial AI image-synthesis service, which can produce photorealistic images at a quality level that some AI art fans are calling creepy and ‘too perfect.’ Midjourney v5 is available now as an alpha test for customers who subscribe to the Midjourney service, which is available through Discord.”
WIRED: How WIRED Will Use Generative AI Tools. “This is WIRED, so we want to be on the front lines of new technology, but also to be ethical and appropriately circumspect. Here, then, are some ground rules on how we are using the current set of generative AI tools. We recognize that AI will develop and so may modify our perspective over time, and we’ll acknowledge any changes in this post. We welcome feedback in the comments.”
The Conversation: How to perfect your prompt writing for ChatGPT, Midjourney and other AI generators. “…prompt engineering is essential for unlocking generative AI’s capabilities. And luckily it isn’t a technical skill. It’s mostly about trial and error, and keeping a few things in mind.”
MIT Technology Review: AI image generator Midjourney blocks porn by banning words about the human reproductive system . “The popular AI image generator Midjourney bans a wide range of words about the human reproductive system from being used as prompts, MIT Technology Review has discovered.”
New York Times: This Tool Could Protect Artists From A.I.-Generated Art That Steals Their Style. “Say, for example, that [artist Karla] Ortiz wants to post new work online, but doesn’t want it fed to A.I. to steal it. She can upload a digital version of her work to Glaze and choose an art type different from her own, say abstract. The tool then makes changes to Ms. Ortiz’s art at the pixel-level that Stable Diffusion would associate with, for example, the splattered paint blobs of Jackson Pollock.”
Analytics India: Find the Real AI Artists with This Powerful New Tool . “[Stable Attribution] works on reverse engineering principles to extract the images that were used to create an AI image. The platform also allows attribution to the artists whose images were used for the creation.”
The Verge: Getty Images sues AI art generator Stable Diffusion in the US for copyright infringement. “Getty Images has filed a lawsuit in the US against Stability AI, creators of open-source AI art generator Stable Diffusion, escalating its legal battle against the firm.”
ReviewGeek: Now You Can Create Your Own AI Images with Shutterstock. “While some stock photography and image websites are fighting AI-generated content, others like Adobe and Shutterstock are embracing it. After partnering with DALLE-2 back in October, today Shutterstock released an AI-generation tool for its customers.”
Larry Ferlazzo: How I’m Using AI Art Generation To Teach English To Newcomers. “I’ve previously shared THE BEST RESOURCES FOR TEACHING & LEARNING WITH AI ART GENERATION TOOLS, which included some preliminary ideas on how to us AI art creation sites in the classroom. I thought I would share how I’ve been using them in my ELL Newcomers class over the past few weeks, and hope that readers will share even better ideas.” I have a great deal of respect for Larry, but this time I want to disagree with him about terminology. I don’t think we should call them “art generators”. I think we should call them “image generators.” Referring to the output as “art” gives it a cultural credibility it does not deserve.
BuzzFeed News: Meet The Three Artists Behind A Landmark Lawsuit Against AI Art Generators. “… last week’s lawsuit against Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, and DeviantArt is the first time that artists have challenged generative AI companies in court. Days after that lawsuit was filed, stock-image powerhouse Getty Images filed its own suit against Stability AI in London, claiming that the company ‘unlawfully copied and processed millions of images protected by copyright and the associated metadata’ to train its AI model.”
WIRED: How to Spot AI-Generated Art, According to Artists. “The public release of AI art tools, like Midjourney and DALL-E 2, has ignited contentious debates among artists, designers, and art fans alike. Many are critical of the fact that the technology’s rapid progress was fueled by scraping the internet for publicly posted art and imagery, without credit or compensation to the artists who had their work stolen.”
Mashable: Picsart’s new SketchAI app is transforming images into digital art. “SketchAI provides users with the tools to draw an image or upload an existing image, then apply various aesthetics and styles to digitally transform the original. Some of these presets include artist-based styles like ‘Henri Matisse’, ‘da Vinci’, and ‘Claude Monet’; others fall under broader categories like ‘Anime’, ’60s Vibes’, and ‘Bright Impressionism’.”
PC World: Meet Stable Horde, the crowd-powered Folding@Home of AI art. “Does your PC really need to search for aliens? How about pitching in your resources to help make AI art, instead? A new community effort, Stable Horde, allows you to donate your PC’s extra GPU cycles to create AI art and use your donated time to create AI art in just a fraction of the time instead.”
