Google unveils Imagen Video, a text-to-video AI generator trained on 14M video-text pairs, 60M image-text pairs, and the public LAION-400M image-text dataset (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

October 5, 2022

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Google unveils Imagen Video, a text-to-video AI generator trained on 14M video-text pairs, 60M image-text pairs, and the public LAION-400M image-text dataset — Not to be outdone by Meta’s Make-A-Video, Google today detailed its work on Imagen Video, an AI system that can generate video clips given …

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Exponential, a DeFi investment discovery and risk assessment service, raised a $14M seed led by Paradigm, with Haun Ventures, FTX’s VC arm, others participating (Brandy Betz/CoinDesk)

Brandy Betz / CoinDesk:
Exponential, a DeFi investment discovery and risk assessment service, raised a $14M seed led by Paradigm, with Haun Ventures, FTX’s VC arm, others participating — The tool helps users assess risks in decentralized finance and compare investments. — Exponential, a decentralized-finance …

October 3, 2022

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 (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 …

November 24, 2022

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 (TechCrunch)

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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 …

October 9, 2022

OpenAI open sources Whisper, a speech recognition system that was trained on 680K hours of “multilingual and multitask supervised data collected from the web” (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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OpenAI open sources Whisper, a speech recognition system that was trained on 680K hours of “multilingual and multitask supervised data collected from the web” — Speech recognition remains a challenging problem in AI and machine learning. In a step toward solving it …

September 21, 2022

Text-to-image generation systems like DALL-E and Midjourney use datasets built by scrapping images without explicit permission and it’s not easy to opt out (Chloe Xiang/VICE)

Chloe Xiang / VICE:
Text-to-image generation systems like DALL-E and Midjourney use datasets built by scrapping images without explicit permission and it’s not easy to opt out — In one stark example of how sensitive images can end up powering these AI tools, a user found a medical image in the LAION dataset …

September 27, 2022

DeviantArt announces DreamUp, a text-to-image generator based on Stable Diffusion, drawing intense criticism from its artist community (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica)

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 …

November 14, 2022

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