Though some efforts continue, the once-promising technology has run up against significant challenges — most notably creating an entirely new transit infrastructure.
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Artist receives first known US copyright registration for generative AI art
Enlarge / An excerpt from the AI-assisted comic book Zarya of the Dawn, which received a US copyright registration. (credit: Kris Kashtanova) In what might be a first, a New York-based artist named Kris Kashtanova has received US copyright registration on their graphic novel that features AI-generated artwork, according to their Instagram feed and confirmed...
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AI model from OpenAI automatically recognizes speech and translates it to English
Enlarge (credit: Benj Edwards / Ars Technica) On Wednesday, OpenAI released a new open source AI model called Whisper that recognizes and translates audio at a level that approaches human recognition ability. It can transcribe interviews, podcasts, conversations, and more. OpenAI trained Whisper on 680,000 hours of audio data and matching transcripts in 98 languages...
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Jesse Powell, C.E.O. of Cryptocurrency Exchange Kraken, Steps Down
Jesse Powell, the chief executive, has battled with employees after posting messages about race and gender and urging those who disagreed with his values to leave.
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Twitch Says It Will Reduce Payments for Many Popular Streamers
The video game streaming service is struggling to strike the right balance between popularity and profit.
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The Settings That Make Smartphones Easier for Everyone to Use
The accessibility features Apple and Google include in their mobile software can help people of all abilities get more from their devices.
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Fearing copyright issues, Getty Images bans AI-generated artwork
Enlarge / A selection of Stable Diffusion images with a strikeout through them. (credit: Ars Technica) Getty Images has banned the sale of AI generative artwork created using image synthesis models such as Stable Diffusion, DALL-E 2, and Midjourney through its service, The Verge reports. To clarify the new policy, The Verge spoke with Getty...
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The record-setting DDoSes keep coming, with no end in sight
Enlarge / Drowning in a sea of data. (credit: Getty Images) The record-vying distributed denial-of-service attacks keep coming, with two mitigation services reporting they encountered some of the biggest data bombardments ever by threat actors whose tactics and techniques are constantly evolving. On Monday, Imperva said it defended a customer against an attack that lasted...
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Artist finds private medical record photos in popular AI training data set
Enlarge / Censored medical images found in the LAION-5B data set used to train AI. The black bars and distortion have been added. (credit: Ars Technica) Late last week, a California-based AI artist who goes by the name Lapine discovered private medical record photos taken by her doctor in 2013 referenced in the LAION-5B image set,...
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YouTube’s Dislike Button Rarely Shifts Recommendations, Researchers Say
New research from Mozilla shows YouTube users have little control over what is recommended to them.