Hungary bans teenagers from visiting World Press Photo exhibition over display of LGBTQ+ images

BUDAPEST, Hungary — People younger than 18 have been barred from visiting this year’s World Press Photo exhibition in Budapest, after Hungary’s right-wing populist government determined that some of its photos violate a contentious law restricting LGBTQ+ content. The prestigious global photo exhibition, on display in Hungary’s National Museum in Budapest, receives more than 4 … Read more

Google’s new tools help users verify the authenticity of images online faster

Google AI text-to-image generators have the capability to produce some incredibly realistic images, like the viral image of Pope Francis wearing a white puffer jacket that nearly tricked the whole internet. Therefore, this technology poses a high risk of spreading misinformation — but Google’s new tools are here to help.  At Google I/O, the company … Read more

How to Create Images With ChatGPT’s New Dall-E 3 Integration

There’s a usage cap on how often you can interact with the GPT-4 version of ChatGPT. (These prompts take a hefty amount of computer power to process!) The official limit is set at 50 prompts every three hours. If you hit this wall, the chatbot displays an error message with how long you will have … 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

Amazon’s new generative AI tool lets advertisers enhance product images

Amazon is rolling out a new AI image generation tool for advertisers to generate backgrounds based on product descriptions and themes. Amazon is currently beta testing the tool with select advertisers and will expand availability “over time,” the company says. To use the tool, advertisers upload a photo, type an image description describing a background … Read more

Google’s AI-powered search experience can now generate images, write drafts

Google’s AI-powered search feature, SGE (Search Generative Experience), is gaining some new skills, starting today. The AI feature, which introduces a conversational mode in Search, is now going to be able to generate images using prompts directly in SGE similar to rival Bing’s support of OpenAI’s DALLE-E 3. In addition, SGE will now allow users … Read more

Satellite images show the scale of Gaza destruction

People carry their belongings around destroyed buildings and debris at the Al-Karama neighborhood after an Israeli airstrike that has been going on for five days in Gaza City, Gaza on October 11, 2023. Anadolu Agency | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Satellite images depict the scale of the devastation in Gaza following a barrage of … Read more

10 of the strangest images from Microsoft’s upgraded Bing Image Creator

The internet continues to test the limits of artificial intelligence and the human capacity for absurdity, as users flocked online to share their outputs of the latest Bing Image Creator upgrade. Quietly announced on Sept. 30, the latest iteration of Microsoft’s image generation tool incorporates OpenAI’s new DALL-E 3. Normally only accessible to ChatGPT Plus … Read more

A Look Back at the Best Spaceflight Images From September

A new way to view the Sun A new way to view the Sun Scientists adapted a camera on the Solar Orbiter probe to investigate seldom-seen areas of the Sun’s atmosphere. By modifying the Solar Orbiter’s Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) with a clever hack, they managed to block the overpowering light from the Sun, highlighting … Read more

Satellite Images Show the Devastating Cost of Sudan’s Aerial War

On Thursday, the head of the Sudanese Army, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, asking for increased aid from the international community for Sudan and condemning the paramilitary groups that he says “have killed, looted, raped, robbed, and seized citizens’ homes and properties, and destroyed infrastructure and government … Read more