Glaze 2 protects artworks from AI scraping
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.
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Updates for image generator Ideogram
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 unveils new Enterprise AI offerings
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 …
Generated images can now also be edited with Dall-E
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
Midjourney adds feature for consistent characters
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 …
Jasper integrates Stability AI’s Clipdrop
San Francisco startup Jasper aims to provide the most comprehensive AI marketing assistant. And that includes not only creating and editing text, but also images and graphics. Stability AI acquired Clipdrop a year ago. Source: VentureBeat
FastSDXL is a speedy image generator
FastSDXL demonstrates how fast Stability AI’s SDXL image generator works.
Textify changes text in images
Textify lets you change the text in images. It works with different fonts and can also change text that is displayed at an angle.
Ideogram promises better text in AI images
Text has always been a big problem for image generators. In the beginning it was illegible gibberish, later it looked better, but was still full of errors and therefore mostly unusable. Ideogram promises an improvement with version 1.0. Our tests show: It can work well, but unfortunately not always. You can test Ideogram for free.
Stable Diffusion 3 image generator announced
Stability AI is a provider of numerous AI tools that focuses more than others on open availability. There is now a large family of image generators that can be used on your own computer under the name Stable Diffusion. The recently announced Stable Diffusion 3 promises better quality in the future. This is especially true …