Google DeepMind develops “Gecko”, a new standard to evaluate the capabilities of AI image generators. It is designed to help better understand the strengths and weaknesses of AI models and drive their development.
Adobe integrates its Firefly AI image generator directly into Photoshop, allowing users to create images using text input and then edit them using familiar Photoshop tools.
Meta presents Llama 3, the latest generation of its speech models, which is freely available for download. The models are said to surpass the performance of many competitors and can even compete with some of the best proprietary models. Llama 3 is said to excel at multiple-choice questions, programming tasks, and mathematical problems. In addition …
There are many AI image generators. But they often have one problem: copyright. First, it is not always clear where the training material comes from. Second, it is not certain to what extent you can get into legal trouble with the generated images. Such image generators are often out of the question for companies and …
Snapchat is also focusing on greater transparency and stricter guidelines for the use of AI. Any image generated with Snap AI will be tagged with a new watermark. Source: TechCrunch
The University of Chicago released Glaze 2. It is an improved version of their free tool to help artists protect their work from unauthorized AI scraping. Video protection is next.
The AI image generator Ideogram has released several new features. One allows users to create images based on text descriptions of reference images. Negative prompts now help to avoid certain elements in an image. And speed mode options offer trade-offs between speed and image quality.
Google unveiled a series of updates to its enterprise AI offerings at its annual cloud computing conference in Las Vegas. Despite recent troubles with consumer-facing tools, the company insisted the technology is safe and ready for enterprise use. Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian demonstrated how its most powerful AI model, Gemini, can be used for …
A demo video on Twitter/X shows a function commonly known as “inpainting”: parts of the image can be selected with a brush tool and then changed by text command. Source: Axios
Until now, image generators like Midjourney have not been very helpful if you wanted to use a specific, fictitious person in several images. However, such consistency is essential for many applications. Think of comics or marketing materials. With Stable Diffusion, this can be solved with LoRAs. However, the technical effort is not trivial. Another option …