Bumble for Friends rolls out AI-generated icebreakers

Bumble for Friends — the platonic offshoot of Bumble — introduces a couple updates: AI-generated icebreakers, and a new way to organize group get-togethers. Using AI chatbots to get dates isn’t new, but now Bumble for Friends is incorporating the technology to help users get to know a potential pal. According to the press release, … Read more

WhatsApp under fire for AI-generated sticker responses to ‘Palestine’

Earlier this year, Meta-owned WhatsApp started testing a new feature that allows users to generate stickers based on a text description using AI. When users search “Palestinian,” “Palestine,” or “Muslim boy Palestine,” the feature returns a photo of a gun or a boy with a gun, a report from The Guardian shows. According to The … Read more

This new camera has Content Credentials built-in as a response to AI-generated images

Adobe/Leica With the rise of AI-generated images, distinguishing between fabricated and authentic images is increasingly difficult. The camera manufacturer Leica is attempting to combat that issue with the release of its latest camera, the Leica M11-P.  On Thursday, Leica dropped the Leica M11-P, the world’s first camera to have Content Credentials built-in, which enables a … Read more

Google will require Android apps to better moderate AI-generated content

With generative AI exploding everywhere, Google will start requiring that Android apps include a way to report offensive AI-generated content and follow new moderation rules around what kind of AI content is acceptable. Apps using AI-generated content will be required to add a button to flag or report offensive material early next year to remain … Read more

The AI-Generated Child Abuse Nightmare Is Here

A horrific new era of ultrarealistic, AI-generated, child sexual abuse images is now underway, experts warn. Offenders are using downloadable open source generative AI models, which can produce images, to devastating effects. The technology is being used to create hundreds of new images of children who have previously been abused. Offenders are sharing datasets of … Read more

ByteDance’s video editor CapCut targets businesses with AI ad scripts and AI-generated presenters

CapCut, the ByteDance-owned video editing app that’s the company’s second to hit $100 million in consumer spending after TikTok, is now expanding into business tools. Known today for its easy-to-use templates, tight integration with TikTok, and rapid adoption of AI effects and filters, CapCut has been a top consumer video editing app that now regularly … Read more

Android 14’s AI-generated wallpapers are super fun. Here’s how to create them

June Wan/ZDNET When Google announced Android 14, one of the biggest developments was the addition of a brand-new generative AI wallpaper tool. Like just about any other AI image creator, users feed in a set of words or prompts, and the AI whips up a completely unique image based on the input. Review: Google Pixel … Read more

Adobe Unveils Special Symbol to Mark AI-Generated Content

As ill-conceived and poor-quality AI content continues to flood the internet, designating that content as ill-conceived and poor quality is a paramount concern. To aid in that goal, Adobe and other companies have unveiled a new symbol to tag imagery created with artificial intelligence, informing viewers that all is not what it seems. Generating Video … Read more

Loftie Smart Alarm Clock Review (2023): A Clock with AI-Generated Bedtime Stories

Photograph: Loftie Once your alarm, sound, and brightness settings are done, you won’t need the app. Everything else you can find on the clock itself. There are three buttons on the top of the device, each with a different size and function. The middle button lets you click through the main menu, which includes Alarms, … Read more

What an AI-Generated Medieval Village Means for the Way forward for Artwork

The place does artwork start and finish? The query is on the middle of a debate that roiled X (previously generally known as Twitter) this month after an AI-generated picture of a medieval village, titled Spiral City, went viral. “I stole this from somebody on Twitter who stole this from somebody on Reddit,” a person … Read more