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OpenAI’s Sora, which can generate videos and interactive 3D environments on the fly, is a remarkable demonstration of the cutting edge in GenAI — a bona fide milestone. But curiously,…

Diffusion transformers are the key behind OpenAI’s Sora — and they’re set to upend GenAI

Stability AI has announced Stable Diffusion 3, the latest and most powerful version of the company’s image-generating AI model. While details are scant, it’s clearly an attempt to fend off…

Stable Diffusion 3 arrives to solidify early lead in AI imagery against Sora and Gemini

AI image generator Stable Diffusion already has a lot of fans, and now those experimenting with the new AI technology to develop their own models have a place to share…

Andreessen Horowitz backs Civitai, a generative AI content marketplace with millions of users

Ready to put your AI prompting skills to work for product customization? Smartphone case and accessory maker PopSockets is today introducing a clever new AI Customizer tool that will allow…

PopSockets unveils a photo case and accessory designer, powered by AI

Stability AI, the startup behind the text-to-image AI model Stable Diffusion, thinks 3D model creation tools could be the next big thing in generative AI. At least, that’s the message…

Stability AI’s latest tool uses AI to generate 3D models

While Adobe is bringing generative AI models to professional photographers and designers, another company is working to make easy-to-use generative AI tools available to a wider range of photographers, including…

Luminar Neo brings generative AI tools to hobbyist photographers

AI startup Stability AI continues to refine its generative AI models in the face of increasing competition — and ethical challenges. Today, Stability AI announced the launch of Stable Diffusion…

Stability AI releases its latest image-generating model, Stable Diffusion XL 1.0

After igniting a global obsession over generative art, ten-month-old Midjourney appears to be entering the Middle Kingdom, the world’s largest internet market. In an article posted on the Tencent-owned social…

‘Midjourney China’ launches — then its announcement disappears

Stability AI, the startup funding a range of generative AI experiments, has released a new version of Stable Diffusion, the text-to-image AI system that was among the first to rival…

Stability AI’s new model is slightly better at generating hands

Riding the generative AI wave, Picsart, the developer behind various photo and video editing apps for the web and mobile devices, is introducing a new iOS app that transforms photos…

Picsart’s AI-powered SketchAI app turns images and outlines into digital art

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How China is building a parallel generative AI universe

The gigantic technological leap that machine learning models have shown in the last few months is getting everyone excited about the future of AI — but also nervous about its uncomfortable consequences. After text-to-image tools from Stability AI and OpenAI became the talk of the town, ChatGPT’s ability to hold intelligent conversations is the new…

7:01 am PST • December 31, 2022
How China is building a parallel generative AI universe

The group trying to monetize AI porn generation, Unstable Diffusion, raised more than $56,000 on Kickstarter from 867 backers. Now, as Kickstarter changes its thinking about what kind of AI-based…

Kickstarter shut down the campaign for AI porn group Unstable Diffusion amid changing guidelines

AI-generated music is already an innovative enough concept, but Riffusion takes it to another level with a clever, weird approach that produces weird and compelling music using not audio but…

Try ‘Riffusion,’ an AI model that composes music by visualizing it

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Image-generating AI can copy and paste from training data, raising IP concerns

Image-generating AI models like DALL-E 2 and Stable Diffusion can — and do — replicate aspects of images from their training data, researchers show in a new study, raising concerns as these services enter wide commercial use. Co-authored by scientists at the University of Maryland and New York University, the research identifies cases where image-generating…

4:30 am PST • December 13, 2022
Image-generating AI can copy and paste from training data, raising IP concerns

If your Instagram is awash in algorithmically generated portraits of your friends, you aren’t alone. After adding a new avatar generation tool based on Stable Diffusion, the photo editing app…

Lensa AI, the app making ‘magic avatars,’ raises red flags for artists

It might seem like Lensa AI sprung up overnight when suddenly, your friends are all posting artistic renditions of themselves that they generated on the app. But while the Lensa…

Lensa AI climbs the App Store charts as its ‘magic avatars’ go viral

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Meet Unstable Diffusion, the group trying to monetize AI porn generators

When Stable Diffusion, the text-to-image AI developed by startup Stability AI, was open sourced earlier this year, it didn’t take long for the internet to wield it for porn-creating purposes. Communities across Reddit and 4chan tapped the AI system to generate realistic and anime-style images of nude characters, mostly women, as well as non-consensual fake…

12:33 pm PST • November 17, 2022
Meet Unstable Diffusion, the group trying to monetize AI porn generators

Generative AI is suddenly everywhere. Over the past year, you’ve probably seen people showcasing impressive AI-generated artworks, thanks to progress in text-to-image algorithms introduced by groups like OpenAI and Stability…

Movio wants to make your marketing videos with generative AI

Stability AI, the company funding the development of open source music- and image-generating systems like Dance Diffusion and Stable Diffusion, today announced that it raised $101 million in a funding…

Stability AI, the startup behind Stable Diffusion, raises $101M

After nine generations of Pokémon, it can sometimes feel like the game developers are just pulling random words from a hat and seeing what they come up with. I still…

Make your very own AI-generated Pokémon-like creature

Everyone wants to get in on the AI image generation action, but if you’ve been intimidated by the existing options out there based on Stable Diffusion, including the Midjourney Discord…

This Mac app makes it easy to create your own AI images with Stable Diffusion

AI Dungeon realized the dream many gamers have had since the ’80s: an evolving storyline that players themselves create and direct. Now, it’s going further with a new feature that…

Latitude brings AI-generated artwork to AI Dungeon

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A terrifying AI-generated woman is lurking in the abyss of latent space

There’s a ghost in the machine. Machine learning, that is. We are all regularly amazed by AI’s capabilities in writing and creation, but who knew it had such a capacity for instilling horror? A chilling discovery by an AI researcher finds that the “latent space” comprising a deep learning model’s memory is haunted by least…

11:25 am PDT • September 13, 2022
A terrifying AI-generated woman is lurking in the abyss of latent space

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AI is getting better at generating porn. We might not be prepared for the consequences.

A red-headed woman stands on the moon, her face obscured. Her naked body looks like it belongs on a poster you’d find on a hormonal teenager’s bedroom wall — that is, until you reach her torso, where three arms spit out of her shoulders. AI-powered systems like Stable Diffusion, which translate text prompts into pictures,…

11:10 am PDT • September 2, 2022
AI is getting better at generating porn. We might not be prepared for the consequences.

Mobile photo editing app creator Lightricks is hopping on the AI-generated art bandwagon with its new “Text to Image” generator within its apps, including Photoleap, which is known for its…

Mobile photo editing app creator Lightricks launches text-to-image generator

A new open source AI image generator capable of producing realistic pictures from any text prompt has seen stunningly swift uptake in its first week. Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion, high…

Deepfakes for all: Uncensored AI art model prompts ethics questions