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 …

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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 (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica)

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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 (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica)

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