A New York-based artist received copyright registration on a comic featuring artwork by Midjourney, the first known US copyright for latent diffusion AI art (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 …

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An artist using Midjourney to create AI-generated art won first place at Colorado State Fair’s fine art competition, leading to criticism by other artists  —  Jason Allen’s AI-generated work “Théâtre D’opéra Spatial” took first place in the digital category at the Colorado State Fair.

Benj Edwards / Ars Technica:
With AI image generation tools like Stable Diffusion and DreamBooth, it’s easy to make damaging deepfakes using just a few images of a person from social media  —  AI tech makes it trivial to generate harmful fake photos from a few social media pictures.  —  If you’re one of the billions …

Benj Edwards / Ars Technica:
With AI image generation tools like Stable Diffusion and DreamBooth, it’s easy to make damaging deepfakes using just a few images of a person from social media  —  AI tech makes it trivial to generate harmful fake photos from a few social media pictures.  —  If you’re one of the billions …

Benj Edwards / Ars Technica:
With AI image generation tools like Stable Diffusion and DreamBooth, it’s easy to make life-wrecking deepfakes with a few photos of a person from social media  —  AI tech makes it trivial to generate harmful fake photos from a few social media pictures.  —  If you’re one of the billions …

Benj Edwards / Ars Technica:
With AI image generation tools like Stable Diffusion and DreamBooth, it’s easy to make life-wrecking deepfakes with a few photos of a person from social media  —  AI tech makes it trivial to generate harmful fake photos from a few social media pictures.  —  If you’re one of the billions …