“After a difficult year marked by two bitter strikes, the 96th Academy Awards will give Hollywood a chance to project an image of itself exactly the way it wants to be seen. This year’s nominees include critically acclaimed blockbusters (Oppenheimer and Barbie), edgy fare (Poor Things), auteur turns (Killers of the Flower Moon, The Zone of Interest) and biting satire […]
“Hello, cultural singularity—soon, every video you see online could be completely fake. On Thursday, OpenAI announced Sora, a text-to-video AI model that can generate 60-second-long photorealistic HD video from written descriptions. While it’s only a research preview that we have not tested, it reportedly creates synthetic video (but not audio yet) at a fidelity and consistency greater than any text-to-video […]
“As a teacher at the New Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, he pushes his students to use it. When it comes to visualising ideas, the latest version of Midjourney (version 5.2, released last June) is a “game changer”, he says, especially for students who have a less visual imagination. Writing down precise prompts for ChatGPT can also help them […]
“In the birthplace of Italian sculpture, a powerful automated machine tries its hand at an ancient craft? Today, Tincolini, Massari, and their team of technicians and artisans create sculptures on commission for artists, architects and designers, and they sell their technology to clients around the world, including three sizes of Litix’s signature robot and a proprietary software that uses a […]
“A.I. Is the Future of Photography. Does That Mean Photography Is Dead? Aside from very real concerns about the livelihoods of professional photographers, especially those who work in commercial photography, I worry that A.I. image generators may leave society as a whole more vulnerable to widespread manipulation — as presaged by hoax A.I. images of Donald Trump violently resisting arrest […]