Meta details its text-to-video AI generator, called Make-A-Video, which can produce five second videos with no audio; the model is currently private (James Vincent/The Verge)

James Vincent / The Verge:
Stable Diffusion 2.0 makes it harder to mimic some artists’ styles or generate NSFW output; Stability AI says NSFW images were removed from its training data  —  Users of AI image generator Stable Diffusion are angry about an update to the software that “nerfs” its ability to generate NSFW output …

TechCrunch:
A look at Dance Diffusion, an AI music generator aiming to overcome the limitations of other open-source audio tools, and legal issues with AI-generated music  —  Stability AI, the company behind Stable Diffusion, is tackling music  —  It was only five years ago that electronic punk band YACHT entered …

TechCrunch:
A look at Unstable Diffusion, which is trying to monetize AI porn generators; the group migrated from a subreddit to Discord, where it has over 45,000 members  —  Of course, it’s an ethical minefield  —  When Stable Diffusion, the text-to-image AI developed by startup Stability AI …

Benj Edwards / Ars Technica:
DeviantArt announces DreamUp, a text-to-image generator based on Stable Diffusion, drawing intense criticism from its artist community  —  Confused artists discover their work will be used for AI training by default.  —  On Friday, the online art community DeviantArt announced DreamUp …

James Vincent / The Verge:
Shutterstock partners with OpenAI to begin selling DALL-E 2-generated stock imagery “in the coming months” and launches a Contributor Fund to reimburse creators  —  Will AI image generators kill the stock image industry?  It’s a question asked by many following the rise of text-to-image AI models in recent years.

Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Analysis finds 16 smartphone apps, used as alternatives to ankle monitors in the US, allow access to wide swaths of information and are frequently unreliable  —  Researchers at the University of Washington and Harvard Law School recently published a groundbreaking study analyzing …