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- Eric’s passionThere are, perhaps, three stages in one’s relationship with photography: ignorance, interest, and enthusiasm. Eric Colmet Daage lived in a fourth, an unrestrained passion. And unlike most of us, whose love for images tends to orbit one genre, Eric’s passion embraced them all: photojournalism, sports, fashion, fine art, historical archives, and documentary. If a photograph […]
- Photography’s Many BirthdaysPhotography is unusual among technologies: it has no single birthday. Was it 1727, when Johann Heinrich Schulze discovered light-sensitive salts? 1826, when Nicéphore Niépce fixed his “View from the Window”? 1839, when Daguerre unveiled the daguerreotype? Or 1841, when Talbot introduced the negative-positive calotype? Each date is valid. Each is incomplete. That ambiguity is telling. […]
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Pinterest is enhancing its visual search by integrating generative AI to help users better understand and refine searches based on images, including suggesting descriptive terms and similar items. The goal is to reassert Pinterest as a go-to visual discovery and shopping platform amid concerns over AI-generated content flooding the site. -
Adobe on Thursday launched the latest iteration of its Firefly family of image generation AI models, a model for generating vectors, and a redesigned web app that houses all its AI models, plus some from its competitors. There’s also a mobile app for Firefly in the works. -
YouTube is rolling out a new ‘captured with a camera’ label that works with C2PA Content Credentials. -
WhatsApp's new feature to combat fake news: Exposing the truth behind misleading images -
As A.I.-generated data becomes harder to detect, it’s increasingly likely to be ingested by future A.I., leading to worse results.
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